{"id":3449,"date":"2011-02-08T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T16:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2011-02-08T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T16:33:52","slug":"celebrity-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3449","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A selection of celebrity math\/physics news:\t<\/p>\n

  • Jane Fonda’s blog has a report on My Meeting With Stephen Hawking<\/a>. Hawking told her “You were my heart throb”, admitting that Barbarella was what he had in mind.<\/li>\n
  • MIT has put online a video of a lecture<\/a> given in December by Jim Simons. Simons tells some of the story of his remarkable career and gives some advice about doing math. The financial news this morning reports<\/a> that Simons’s Renaissance Technologies is now down in Brazil doing high-frequency trading. The story is illustrated with a photo of Gisele Bundchen super-imposed on what appears to be Simons lecturing on differential K-theory.<\/li>\n
  • Someone has come up with an Einstein Index<\/a> to rank theoretical physicists using a new citation analysis. According to this index, Juan Maldacena outranks Steve Weinberg and Ed Witten by a sizable amount. Further down the list, Sean Carroll and Murray Gell-Mann get the same ranking.<\/li>\n
  • Brian Greene’s new book on the Multiverse is getting a lot of attention, with mostly laudatory reviews. For an alternate take, see the review at Bookforum<\/a> by Charles Seife.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A selection of celebrity math\/physics news: Jane Fonda’s blog has a report on My Meeting With Stephen Hawking. Hawking told her “You were my heart throb”, admitting that Barbarella was what he had in mind. MIT has put online a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","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\/3449","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=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}