{"id":2350,"date":"2009-10-09T15:42:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:36:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T22:36:36","slug":"short-news-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2350","title":{"rendered":"Short News Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematician Jim Simons is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/09\/business\/09hedge.html\">retiring<\/a> from the job of running the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies.  Construction of the building for the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scgp.stonybrook.edu\/?q=node\/7\">proceeding<\/a>, with opening scheduled for next fall.<\/p>\n<p>An Algerian physicist associated with the LHCb experiment at CERN has been arrested on charges of having associations with al-Qaeda. The media freak out and CERN issues a <a href=\"http:\/\/press.web.cern.ch\/press\/\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I. M. Gelfand died on Monday at the age of 96.  For more about him, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/08\/science\/08gelfand.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/golem.ph.utexas.edu\/category\/2009\/10\/israel_gelfand_sept_2nd_1913_o.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/terrytao.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/07\/israel-gelfand\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth and latest installment of Oswaldo Zapata&#8217;s essay on the history of superstring theory is <a href=\"http:\/\/spinningthesuperweb.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/superstring-world-i-of-iv.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Geometric Langlands news, Dennis Gaitsgory is running a seminar at Harvard this fall, with notes and other materials on-line <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.harvard.edu\/~gaitsgde\/grad_2009\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Emanuel Kowalski <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/2009\/10\/01\/blogging-by-hand\/\">points out<\/a> that, morally, Princeton&#8217;s Peter Sarnak has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.princeton.edu\/sarnak\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/advice.nerve.com\/2009\/10\/09\/sex-advice-from-mathematicians\/\">One more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematician Jim Simons is retiring from the job of running the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies. Construction of the building for the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is proceeding, with opening scheduled for next fall. An Algerian physicist associated with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2350\">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-2350","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\/2350","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=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}