Monthly Archives: July 2024

Various and Sundry

Posted on July 31, 2024 by woit

A few items of different kinds: The Harvard Math department website has a wonderful profile of Dick Gross. The second International Congress of Basic Science ended a few days ago in Beijing. A huge number of interesting talks, video and … Continue reading →

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The Harvard Swampland Initiative

Posted on July 12, 2024 by woit

The past few years I’ve been noticing more and more claims like this one, supposedly finding a way to “connect string theory to experiment”. When you look into such claims you don’t find anything at all like a conventional experiment/theory … Continue reading →

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A Few Items

Posted on July 2, 2024 by woit

A few items, all involving Peter Scholze in one way or another: A seminar in Bonn on Scholze’s geometrization of real local Langlands is finishing up next week. This is working out details of ideas that Scholze presented at the … Continue reading →

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