{"id":12364,"date":"2021-06-06T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T20:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12364"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T17:33:00","slug":"various-math-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12364","title":{"rendered":"Various Math Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some math-research items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muramatik.com\/\">Mura Yakerson<\/a> has been doing a really wonderful series of interviews with mathematicians, available at her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muramatik.com\/math-life-balance\/\">math-life balance web-page<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCYRR0SgbYH59htIHkwTbqMw\">Youtube channel<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve just started listening to some of them, including ones with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HYZ3reRcVi8\">Peter Scholze<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XTOwj1LvntM\">Dustin Clausen<\/a> (Clausen is John Tate&#8217;s grandson, the latest AMS Notices has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.org\/journals\/notices\/202105\/rnoti-p768.pdf\">memorial article<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a remarkable <a href=\"https:\/\/xenaproject.wordpress.com\/2021\/06\/05\/half-a-year-of-the-liquid-tensor-experiment-amazing-developments\/\">report out from Peter Scholze<\/a> about the progress of the <a href=\"https:\/\/xenaproject.wordpress.com\/2020\/12\/05\/liquid-tensor-experiment\/\">Liquid Tensor experiment<\/a>.  Back when I first heard about this, I figured it was a clever plot by Scholze to get other people to help with a very complicated part of a proof, by getting them to work out the details, with the excuse being that they would be doing a computer check of the proof.  Seemed to me very unlikely you could check such a proof with a computer, but that by forcing humans to try to disambiguate things carefully enough in preparation for a computer proof, he&#8217;d get a human-checked proof.  Looks like I was wrong.<\/li>\n<li>For yet more Scholze news, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fields.utoronto.ca\/activities\/21-22\/fieldsmedalsym\">Fields Medal symposium this year<\/a> will be devoted to his work.<\/li>\n<li>Trying to find something of interest in math, that wasn&#8217;t Scholze-related, I noticed <a href=\"https:\/\/caseazatmiftakhov.org\/\">this site devoted to the case of Azat Miftakhov<\/a>, where there will be an online Azat Miftakhov Day program.  Foiled though on the Scholze front, since he&#8217;s a speaker there, talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/caseazatmiftakhov.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/05\/abstract-scholze-1.pdf\">Condensed Mathematics<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The list of those giving plenary lectures at next years ICM is <a href=\"https:\/\/icm2022.org\/plenary-lectures\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>  Kevin Hartnett at Quanta has a good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/the-mystery-at-the-heart-of-physics-that-only-math-can-solve-20210610\/\">new article up about quantum field theory and mathematics<\/a> (an inexhaustible topic&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Also from the Simons Foundation, there&#8217;s a wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/2021\/06\/10\/connecting-the-family-tree-of-mathematics\/\">profile of my Columbia colleague Andrei Okounkov<\/a>, who has been very active in bringing together mathematics and ideas from quantum field theory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Nature has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-01627-2\">a story about the Liquid Tensor Experiment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some math-research items: Mura Yakerson has been doing a really wonderful series of interviews with mathematicians, available at her math-life balance web-page or Youtube channel. I&#8217;ve just started listening to some of them, including ones with Peter Scholze and Dustin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12364\">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-12364","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\/12364","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=12364"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12380,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364\/revisions\/12380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}