{"id":452,"date":"2006-08-30T23:52:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T03:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=452"},"modified":"2006-09-11T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T21:37:14","slug":"links-links-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Links, Links, Links…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wired has an interview with Lee Smolin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The French internet site Arte has interviews<\/a> with various physicists, including one with Carlo Rovelli<\/a>. If you don’t want to watch the videos, there’s a text summary<\/a> (in French).<\/p>\n

Mel Schwartz<\/a> died earlier this week. He won the Nobel prize in 1988 for his 1962 co-discovery of the muon neutrino at the AGS at Brookhaven. Schwartz left physics for a while and founded his own company near Stanford. He returned to Brookhaven and worked on the plans for RHIC, then came back here to Columbia where he was a professor in the physics department, so I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple times. After his retirement he moved to Idaho.<\/p>\n

Freeman Dyson’s 1951 lectures on QED<\/a> have been put in TeX and posted on the arXiv.<\/p>\n

This fall Graeme Segal will be visiting Columbia as “Eilenberg Chair”, a visiting position we have that was funded by the sale of part of Sammy Eilenberg’s collection of South and Southeast Asian art to the Metropolitan Museum. Segal will be giving a course on The Mathematical Structure of Quantum Field Theories<\/a>, which I’m very much looking forward to.<\/p>\n

Another course I’d like to attend, but it’s too far away, would be Dan Freed’s one this semester on Loop Groups and Algebraic Topology<\/a>. The web-site for the course includes a reproduction of Bott’s wonderful lecture notes<\/a> dealing with the topology of compact Lie groups.<\/p>\n

There’s a new paper<\/a> out by Thomas Thiemann summarizing the technical state of LQG. I haven’t had time yet to read it, but hope to spend some time soon doing that. A good place to discuss it would be here<\/a>, where Aaron Bergmann has already started, also see some comments by Robert Helling<\/a>. A not so good place to discuss it would be here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eckhard Meinrenken has an interesting new paper entitled Lecture Notes on Pure Spinors and Moment Maps<\/a>, which promises a more detailed forthcoming paper by him, Alekseev and Bursztyn.<\/p>\n

Some recent and ongoing conferences that have talks online are at Ahrenshoop<\/a> and Santa Barbara<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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