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I recently got a copy of a very interesting new textbook entitled A First Course in Modular Forms by Fred Diamond and Jerry Shurman. Fred was a student of Andrew Wiles at Princeton, and came here to Columbia as a … Continue reading →

As discussed here, here, here, and here, the arXiv is now putting on each abstract page a link to trackbacks from weblogs which contain a link to the paper in question. This is an interesting mechanism for integrating the discussion … Continue reading →

There have been two quite interesting Oberwolfach workshops this summer with some relation to my favorite ideas about K-theory and quantum field theory. The most recent was a workshop on Gerbes, Twisted K-theory and Conformal Field Theory, with blogging from … Continue reading →

In reference to my recent posting about the status of the WMAP experiment, an anonymous (but as far as I can tell, well-informed) source writes: Hi Peter, I am *not* a WMAP person, and would appreciate you not mentioning my … Continue reading →

The WMAP mission has now been in place and taking data near the L2 Lagrange point for four years, with two more years still to go. Spectacular results from the analysis of the first year’s worth of data were reported … Continue reading →

This week and next there are workshops at Snowmass on the particle and accelerator physics aspects of the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC). There’s a new weekly newsletter and a new website devoted to the ILC project which has twice-daily … Continue reading →

Chad Orzel has interesting posts here and here about electric dipole moment experiments and their implications for particle physics. He claims that these experiments will ultimately be capable of getting down to three to four orders of magnitude below the … Continue reading →

A commenter points out that the Edge web-site has put up John Horgan’s recent New York Times Op-Ed piece about science and common sense, together with some quite hostile responses to it. I’ve already explained what I think about Horgan’s … Continue reading →

Today’s New York Times contains an Op-Ed piece by science writer John Horgan entitled In Defense of Common Sense. In it, Horgan takes an iconoclastic view of this year’s many celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s great work of … Continue reading →

The KITP program on Mathematical Structures in String Theory has a new weblog associated with it where Andrew Neitzke has been posting summaries of the talks given there. The idea of having such weblogs attached to programs like the one … Continue reading →