{"id":2530,"date":"2009-11-27T17:13:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T22:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2009-11-28T14:34:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T19:34:39","slug":"short-items-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"Short Items"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  • To get an idea of what’s going on at CERN not at the LHC, but at the theoretical end of things, take a look at the presentations at the recent CERN-TH retreat<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • I was worried that this blog<\/a> marked the end of the distinguished series of publications of W. C. Gall<\/a>. Fortunately, I see that there is now more<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • A year ago I attended a talk at NYU by IAS director Peter Goddard on the early history of the IHES and how it was inspired by the Princeton Institute. Cormac O’Raifertaigh reports here<\/a> on a recent talk by Goddard at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, about how it too grew out of a similar inspiration. <\/li>\n
  • Via Jordan Ellenberg<\/a>, there’s news of a claimed proof of Leopoldt’s conjecture, with details available at a blog entry<\/a> by Minhyong Kim at the new London Number Theory blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • \nAmong courses this semester the world over I wish I could attend, one would be Eckhard Meinrenken’s on Lie Groups and Clifford algebras<\/a>. Luckily he’s producing lecture notes<\/a>, updating those from a previous version of the course.<\/li>\n
  • Next Tuesday the Science Channel will continue it’s great tradition of programming about fundamental physics with the premiere of a new show called Sci-Fi Science<\/a> featuring Michio Kaku. The first evening’s episodes will explain
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    a loophole in Einstein’s theory of relativity that shows how a spacecraft could travel at warp speed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    followed by<\/p>\n

    Dr. Kaku is on a mission to design a gateway to a parallel universe \u2013 but which type should he visit? MIT cosmologist Alan Guth explains his recipe for creating your own universe in the lab, and physicist Neil Turok explains how a parallel universe is only an atom’s length away from us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    To their credit, sometimes they do actually have some real practical science which is not science fiction: yesterday they had Frank Wilczek on this show<\/a>.<\/li>\n

    Update<\/strong>: Lubos<\/a> has more Kaku.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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