Some assorted things I’ve run across recently that may be of interest:<\/p>\n
Talks from the annual meeting<\/a> of the SLAC Users Organization.<\/p>\n A dialogue between Barry Mazur and Peter Pesic about imagination and mathematics<\/a>.<\/p>\n An Op-Ed piece in today’s New York Times by my colleague Brian Greene called That Famous Equation and You<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some sensible comments<\/a> by John Baez about string theory.<\/p>\n A survey of the state of string field theory<\/a> by Leonardo Rastelli.<\/p>\n A “description of some important issues in supersymmetry and string phenomenology” entitled Twenty-five Questions for String Theorists<\/a>. The authors think these questions may have answers that will help connect string theory and phenomenology, although this seems to me unlikely. Serkan Cabi also has some comments<\/a> on this paper.<\/p>\n An article about Feynman<\/a> by Freeman Dyson in the latest New York Review of Books.<\/p>\n A talk about theoretical physics in the Netherlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n Update:<\/b> One more, a report by Paul Cook on an interesting talk by Roman Jackiw<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some assorted things I’ve run across recently that may be of interest: Talks from the annual meeting of the SLAC Users Organization. A dialogue between Barry Mazur and Peter Pesic about imagination and mathematics. An Op-Ed piece in today’s New … Continue reading