{"id":3212,"date":"2010-10-11T11:32:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T15:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2010-10-11T11:32:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T15:32:54","slug":"various-and-sundry-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3212","title":{"rendered":"Various and Sundry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another random collection of topics of possible interest:<\/p>\n

  • Things have been going well at the LHC recently, and there’s a new dashboard page<\/a> at which progress can be followed. For the latest from the LHC, see the talks<\/a> at last week’s LHC Days in Split. The LHC machine is discussed here<\/a>, with the news that restart of proton-proton collisions (after a November 1 stop for a heavy-ion run and holiday shutdown) is tentatively scheduled for February 4. Long-term plans for the machine are covered here<\/a>, including projected running at 6.5 TeV\/beam in 2013, 7 TeV\/beam in 2014, and a possible rebuilding of the machine with new magnets that would give 16.5 TeV\/beam in 2031.\n

    Now that the experiments have 10 inverse picobarns of data, the search for supersymmetry can begin in earnest, and various talks cover this. According to Maria Spiropulu<\/a> of CMS “the time between O(10) and O(100) inverse picobarns of well-understood data will be critical for the discovery and characterization of SUSY”.<\/p>\n

    The other hot topic is that of how well the LHC will be able to compete with the Tevatron for discovery of the Higgs. Tommaso Dorigo discusses this here<\/a> and here<\/a>, using LHC projections given here<\/a>.<\/li>\n

  • In news of non-scientific projects of mathematicians and physicists, Edward Frenkel has a screenplay out called The Two-body Problem<\/a>. Lisa Randall has curated an exhibition in LA entitled Measure for Measure<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Frank Wilczek is working on a murder mystery novel to be called The Attraction of Darkness<\/em>, which will mix “science, music, sex, and murder.” There was a recent Bloggingheads<\/a> conversation with him here. His response when asked about his take on string theory: “It needs work.”<\/li>\n
  • For commentary from Charles Day, an editor as Physics Today, about why their coverage of string theory has been sparse, see here<\/a>. For Clifford Johnson’s commentary on the commentary, see here<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Later this month the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science will have a workshop on Rare Events in Computational, Financial and Physical Sciences<\/a>, co-sponsored by the hedge fund D.E. Shaw. D.E. Shaw has been a large employer of mathematicians and physicists, but recently hasn’t been doing so well, announcing the firing of about 10% of their staff.\n

    The new documentary about the financial crisis that just came out, Inside Job<\/a>, is surprisingly good, I highly recommend it.<\/li>\n

  • \nPast proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians are now available on-line here<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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