Too much going on, hard to keep up with all the things that seem worth mentioning. Here are some quick ones:<\/p>\n
There was a meeting on Geometric Langlands involving mathematicians and physicists last week at the Schrodinger Institute in Vienna. David Ben-Zvi has notes for the talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n There’s an interview<\/a> with John Baez and Urs Schreiber, partly about blogging. I personally take credit for first referring to him as a “proto-blogger”, thus making him feel bad (although it was intended as a compliment…) and encouraging him to modernize:<\/p>\n So, I started getting a little frustrated about being called a ‘proto-blogger’. [laughter] I would joke that I felt like being introduced as like, ‘Homo erectus: Very smart for its time, with the first stone tools’. [laughter] It made me feel sort of old! Victor Rivelles reports<\/a> from the Latin American String School<\/a> in Bariloche. Notes are online<\/a>.<\/p>\n Michael Creutz has a new paper claiming that rooted fermions are not just “ugly” or “bad”, but “evil”. See here<\/a> for some commentary on The Evil That is Rooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n William Fulton is giving an excellent series of lectures here at Columbia every Friday afternoon, on the topic of Equivariant Cohomology in Algebraic Geometry<\/em>. Ex-Columbia undergrad Dave Anderson, now Fulton’s student at Michigan, is writing up notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n There’s a proposed new newsgroup “sci.physics.foundations”, which some readers here might find interesting, and which would be a better place for a lot of the discussions which people try to start here, which I then try and stop because I don’t want to moderate them. More about this here<\/a>, and some discussion here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Too much going on, hard to keep up with all the things that seem worth mentioning. Here are some quick ones: There was a meeting on Geometric Langlands involving mathematicians and physicists last week at the Schrodinger Institute in Vienna. … Continue reading
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