{"id":424,"date":"2006-06-29T22:49:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T03:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=424"},"modified":"2006-07-11T13:58:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T17:58:31","slug":"some-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Some Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cao-Zhu paper at the Asian Journal of Mathematics that is supposed to have a complete proof of the Poincare and geometrization conjectures is still not available, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intlpress.com\/AJM\/p\/2006\/10_2\/AJM-10-2-165-172-intro.pdf\">introduction<\/a> to the paper has been posted there.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not getting enough string theory bashing today, head over to John Horgan&#8217;s Scientific Curmudgeon blog, where he has a posting entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevens.edu\/csw\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/scientific_curmudgeon\/?p=26\">Pulling the Plug on Strings<\/a>.  It contains a wide selection of string-puns (or whatever you call such things), and he has decided to refer to string theory advocates as &#8220;yarn-heads&#8221; and braniacs.  For his trouble, his comment section is under assault by the usual suspects.  There&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.axesandalleys.com\/superstring-theory\/\">this site<\/a>, containing a graphic mentioned here before which I refuse to admit to finding funny. The proprietors have an interesting way of dealing with the comment section.<\/p>\n<p>Sabine Hossenfelder has an excellent posting on <a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/science-and-democracy-ii.html\">Science and Democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This past week I&#8217;ve spent some time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.gc.cuny.edu\/physics\/gp26\/\">26th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics<\/a>, being held here in New York at the CUNY Graduate Center.  It was ably organized by Sultan Catto, who somehow convinced me to give a short talk on the blog and the book, one where I think I disappointed people by keeping string-bashing to a minimum. I enjoyed seeing people at the conference, and there were some good talks, including one by Greg Moore on his recent work with Dan Freed and Graeme Segal (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arxiv.org\/abs\/hep-th\/0605200\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arxiv.org\/abs\/hep-th\/0605198\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Urs Schreiber has been putting his notes on-line about <a href=\"http:\/\/golem.ph.utexas.edu\/string\/archives\/000862.html\">elliptic cohomology<\/a>.  Lots of interesting material, but his comment that he expects the landscape of superstring theories to be equal to the spectrum of elliptic cohomology sounds frightening. Maybe he means a different landscape&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I was quite sorry to hear of the recent death of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/dynamic_archive\/home-news.html#kaplansky\">Irving Kaplansky<\/a>. Kaplansky was an algebraist, and director of MSRI when I was there in 1988-89.  At the time I wasn&#8217;t much interested in algebra, so didn&#8217;t talk to him about math, but he was responsible for making MSRI a really wonderful place to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  The slides from Yau&#8217;s talk at Strings 2006 are now available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcm.ac.cn\/Active\/yau_new.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cao-Zhu paper at the Asian Journal of Mathematics that is supposed to have a complete proof of the Poincare and geometrization conjectures is still not available, but the introduction to the paper has been posted there. 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