{"id":532,"date":"2007-03-07T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T19:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=532"},"modified":"2007-05-28T05:58:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T10:58:52","slug":"some-quick-links-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Some Quick Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Horgan keeps moving his blogging activities to different locations, the latest one is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a truly sad and distressing story about what has happened to Billy Cottrell (who was mentioned snarkily by me long ago here<\/a>), see this LA Weekly article<\/a> and a Clifford Johnson posting<\/a>. The abuse of people going on in this country associated with labeling them “terrorists” is just appalling and deeply shameful.<\/p>\n

More from Steinn Sigurdsson on Yarn Theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cern Courier reports on the recent Axion workshop at Princeton<\/a> and the 2006 Quark Matter conference<\/a> in Shanghai.<\/p>\n

Lee Smolin’s book is out in the UK, here’s a review<\/a> from the Financial Times.<\/p>\n

The latest London Mathematical Society newsletter has a review<\/a> of Not Even Wrong.<\/p>\n

David Ben-Zvi was here last week and gave a wonderful colloquium talk on Langlands duality, loop spaces and representations of real groups<\/a>. Much of was somewhat general philosophy about a new way of thinking about these topics, and this was quite compelling, although I need to find a sizable chunk of time to sit down and really understand what he is doing. If I can do this, maybe I’ll then take a stab at trying to explain this here. He did convince me that one needs to think not only about stacks, but derived stacks. There’s a long foundational document about this by Jacob Lurie (see here<\/a>), something more readable from Bertrand Toen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This semester Edward Frenkel is running a seminar on Topics in the geometric Langlands program<\/a>. The slides<\/a> of a talk by Ben Webster<\/a> that are there are wonderful. One problem with this field has always been how unreadable much of the material about is. People like Webster and Ben-Zvi are starting to do a great job of explaining what is going on in a form that others have some chance of following.<\/p>\n

Later this month the IAS will have a conference<\/a> related to this topic, next year a whole program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll be travelling most of the next week and a half or so, so blogging will be light to non-existent. Behave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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