{"id":524,"date":"2007-02-22T19:32:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T00:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=524"},"modified":"2007-03-06T15:38:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T20:38:53","slug":"assorted-links-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Assorted Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alainconnes.org\/\">Alain Connes<\/a> is now a blogger, contributing to the new <a href=\"http:\/\/noncommutativegeometry.blogspot.com\/\">Noncommutative Geometry<\/a> blog.  There will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.institut.math.jussieu.fr\/projets\/ao\/evenements\/2007\/ncg\/program.html\">conference<\/a> in his honor next month in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Today and tomorrow there&#8217;s a HEPAP meeting going on in Washington, with some of the presentations available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.doe.gov\/hep\/HEPAPFebruary2007Agenda1.shtm\">here<\/a>.  Excluding the SLAC linac, which is getting moved around in the budget, the DOE HEP FY208 budget request is for $782 million, a very healthy more than 16% increase over FY2006.  There&#8217;s also an HEP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.doe.gov\/hep\/HEPAP\/Feb2007\/hepap0207_demographics.pdf\">demography study<\/a> being discussed, which somehow involves &#8220;tagging&#8221; and &#8220;tracking&#8221; HEP physicists, and they seem to be having trouble with the tagging. Not clear what sort of analysis will be performed on the data once all HEP physicist tracks have been reconstructed.<\/p>\n<p>Next month on the 28th there will be a debate on the topic of <\/p>\n<p><em>Does string theory merge general relativity and quantum mechanics to explain the origin of time, space, and the universe? Or is it extraordinarily complex mathematics that has nothing to do with physics, and so explains nothing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>between Lawrence Krauss and Brian Greene at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington.  I recall attending a similar debate at the Museum of Natural History almost exactly six years ago here in New York, also featuring Krauss and Greene.  Some things seem destined to never change&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain Connes is now a blogger, contributing to the new Noncommutative Geometry blog. There will be a conference in his honor next month in Paris. Today and tomorrow there&#8217;s a HEPAP meeting going on in Washington, with some of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","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\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}