{"id":10504,"date":"2018-08-31T20:29:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T00:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=10504"},"modified":"2018-09-01T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T15:07:07","slug":"quick-links-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=10504","title":{"rendered":"Quick Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of links that may be of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talks from the SM at 50 conference held earlier this summer are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLBELrG1nZ2U6H3I1il4NhNVNcdUVUE5Ye\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A detailed expose of the &#8220;Fake Science Factory&#8221; is <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/3ky45y\/hundreds-of-researchers-from-harvard-yale-and-stanford-were-published-in-fake-academic-journals\">here<\/a>, a related Nature story is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-06048-2\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>For those wondering what came out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9986\">this story<\/a>, you might be interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1361-6382\/aacfee\">this<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you want to know what happens to string theorists who leave the field, one answer is that they perform as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riffmagazine.com\/features\/ninja-sex-party-drops-string-theory\/\">Ninja Sex Party<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Burt Richter passed away last month at the age of 87, some obituaries are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/07\/burton-richter-nobel-prize-winning-physicist-influence-washington-dc-dies\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2018\/07\/19\/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-burton-richter-dies-87\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-06036-6\">here<\/a>.  Blog postings here discussing talks or papers by him can be found with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?s=richter\">this search<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Terry Tao has come up with his own take on arithmetic geometry, available <a href=\"https:\/\/terrytao.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/28\/trying-to-understand-the-galois-correspondence\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SZXHoWwBcDc\">A Capella Science<\/a> is really too wonderful for words.  For an example, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SZXHoWwBcDc\">William Rowan Hamilton<\/a>.  Tommaso Dorigo explains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science20.com\/tommaso_dorigo\/a_capella_science_at_cern-233804\">here<\/a> that Tim Blais will be at CERN on Sept. 19.<\/li>\n<li>October 10 there will be a program at the New York Academy of Science about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyas.org\/events\/2018\/the-mystery-of-our-mathematical-universe\/\">The Mystery of our Mathematical Universe<\/a>.  I can&#8217;t help noticing something about discussions of the deep role of mathematics in physics:  they rarely involve mathematicians.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll do an online web interview on September 6, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festivaletteratura.it\/it\/racconti\/scienceground-il-programma-completo-delle-attivita\">part of the Festivalettura in Mantua<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nUpdate<\/strong>:  Frank Wilczek has an insightful <a href=\"https:\/\/physicstoday.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/PT.3.4022?af=R\">review of Lost in Math at Physics Today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of links that may be of interest: Talks from the SM at 50 conference held earlier this summer are available here. A detailed expose of the &#8220;Fake Science Factory&#8221; is here, a related Nature story is here. 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