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The Simons Foundation will be funding new postdoctoral positions at various institutions starting next fall. Details of one of these, at the University of Texas, have been announced, with more to follow in coming weeks. These are three-year postdocs, with … Continue reading →

A presentation at a recent SLAC Users Group meeting included some of the following data about NSF support for HEP theory: Theory funding (including cosmology and astro-particle physics) for FY 2008: \$11.68 million. For FY 2009, \$11.31 million + \$2.3 … Continue reading →

Riemann submitted his paper on the Riemann Hypothesis October 19, 1859, and it was read by Kummer at the meeting of the Berlin academy on November 3. AIM is organizing a celebration of the 150th birthday of the Riemann Hypothesis, … Continue reading →

A couple days ago I got an odd phone call, from a reporter at the Guardian, asking me to comment on the appointment of Michael Green as Lucasian Professor at Cambridge. I told the reporter that I wasn’t a really … Continue reading →

The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is holding a New Horizons in Science conference right now in Austin. This morning Steven Weinberg gave a talk, now available online, with the title Higgs, dark matter and supersymmetry, what the … Continue reading →

There’s a wonderful new research mathematics site: Math Overflow. For some discussion of it, see here and here. For yet another wonderful new site about research mathematics, there’s the French Images des Mathématiques. Why is there nothing in theoretical physics … Continue reading →

I was down in Princeton last Thursday, and attended a wonderful talk by Witten, which I’ll try and explain a little bit about here. Presumably within a rather short time he’ll have a paper out on the arXiv giving full … Continue reading →

Mathematician Jim Simons is retiring from the job of running the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies. Construction of the building for the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is proceeding, with opening scheduled for next fall. An Algerian physicist associated with … Continue reading →

From a recent blog posting by economist Brad DeLong, entitled The State of Economics in the 2000s Analogized…: But I think there also has to be an explanation in terms of the sociology of academic disciplines. And in that light, … Continue reading →

I’d recently been wondering whether the archives of the Bourbaki group would be put on-line, and today noticed that there’s a project to do so, with results available here. One can read copies of “La Tribu”, internal reports on the … Continue reading →