{"id":2782,"date":"2010-03-09T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T19:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2010-03-10T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T21:08:33","slug":"short-items-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2782","title":{"rendered":"Short Items"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  • Bill Thurston teams up<\/a> with Issey Miyake for their fall ready-to-wear collection based on the Geometrization Conjecture (via Quomodocumque<\/a>). Youtube video here<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Why String Theorists Should Switch Fields to Quantum Computing<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • This month’s AMS Notices has an interview<\/a> with last year’s Abel Prize winner, Mikhail Gromov. This year’s Abel prize will be announced<\/a> March 24, see here<\/a> for the committee making the choice. Also to be announced soon is the winner of another million dollar prize, the Templeton Prize.<\/li>\n
  • Yet more string theory in popular culture<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • From UT Austin, various interesting new lectures<\/a> in their GRASP series. These include a nice expository talk by David Ben-Zvi<\/a> on the Fundamental Lemma. Ngo is lecturing about this weekly here at Columbia. In the fall he will move to Chicago<\/a> and take up a permanent position there.<\/li>\n
  • This year’s Talbot workshop will be on one of my favorite topics, Twisted K-theory and Loop Groups. At MIT there’s a preparatory seminar here<\/a>, and a page for the workshop here<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • This has been mentioned here before, but one can’t stop marveling at the Math Overflow<\/a> phenomenon.<\/li>\n
  • There’s an interesting interview with Alan Sokal here<\/a>.<\/li>\n

    Update<\/strong>: Some helpfully just pointed me to this review<\/a> of a new novel by Ian McEwan in which<\/p>\n

    characters mention M-theory, Nambu Lie 3-algebra and coincident M2-branes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Looks like something I’ll have to read when it comes out here in a couple weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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