{"id":10080,"date":"2018-03-06T18:51:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=10080"},"modified":"2018-03-09T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:36:12","slug":"rochester-colloquium-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=10080","title":{"rendered":"Rochester Colloquium Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading up to Rochester this evening, will give a <a href=\"https:\/\/events.rochester.edu\/event\/physics_and_astronomy_colloquium_2277#.Wp8ndudG2M8\">colloquium talk<\/a> there in the physics department on Wednesday at 3:45. I&#8217;ll put up a link to the slides after the talk, for now, here&#8217;s the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Particle theory: a view from a neighboring field <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>High energy particle physics faces a challenging future, largely because of the overwhelming success of the Standard Model. The LHC discovery of a Higgs particle with exactly the predicted properties, coupled with the lack of evidence there for &#8220;Beyond the Standard Model&#8221; physics, has led some to characterize this as a &#8220;crisis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk I&#8217;ll consider the current situation from a somewhat unusual point of view, that of someone who began his career in physics departments doing particle theory, but then moved to mathematics departments.  The field of mathematics has complex and close ties to fundamental physical theory, and the cross-cultural perspective it provides may be of interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nUpdate<\/strong>:  Apologies for the earlier mistake (I had &#8220;Thursday&#8221; instead of &#8220;Wednesday&#8221; above).  The slides for the talk are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/rochester.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading up to Rochester this evening, will give a colloquium talk there in the physics department on Wednesday at 3:45. I&#8217;ll put up a link to the slides after the talk, for now, here&#8217;s the abstract: Particle theory: a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=10080\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10085,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10080\/revisions\/10085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}