{"id":174,"date":"2005-03-30T16:47:47","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T20:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=174"},"modified":"2005-03-30T16:47:47","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T20:47:47","slug":"landscape-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Landscape Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <A href=\"http:\/\/www.perimeterinstitute.ca\/index.php?lang=en\">Perimeter Institute<\/A> in Canada is known as a center for research in Loop Quantum Gravity.  This week they have come up with an extremely clever way to make string theorists look bad.  They&#8217;ve scheduled a week of talks on <A href=\"http:\/\/www.fields.utoronto.ca\/programs\/scientific\/04-05\/string-theory\/phenomenology\">String Phenomenology<\/A>, ending this Friday on April Fool&#8217;s day.  Most of the talks are related in one way or another to the &#8220;Landscape&#8221;, with talks by Kachru on &#8220;Landscape Architecture&#8221; and DeWolfe on &#8220;More Landscape Architecture&#8221;.  If you&#8217;re in the mood for a giggle, <A href=\"http:\/\/streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca:81\/MediasiteLive30\/LiveViewer\/FrontEnd\/Front.aspx?cid=b5bf1311-05fe-4d30-ad47-0947a0a81e16\">tune into<\/A> these talks tomorrow: it will be all landscape, all the time, from <A href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/blog\/archives\/000151.html\">Michael Douglas<\/A> in the morning to a panel discussion in the evening moderated by Herman Verlinde on the topic &#8220;Landscape: What Is It Good For?&#8221;.  It&#8217;s quite possible the panel discussion will be very short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perimeter Institute in Canada is known as a center for research in Loop Quantum Gravity. This week they have come up with an extremely clever way to make string theorists look bad. They&#8217;ve scheduled a week of talks on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","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\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}