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Shelly Glashow is traveling around, giving talks bashing his childhood hero Isaac Newton (and noting that he was “surely one of the greatest intellects the world has known”). He’ll be at NYU tomorrow talking on The Errors and Animadversions of Sir Isaac Newton<\/a>. For a copy of his talk, see here<\/a>, (and here<\/a> for a summary in Catalan).<\/p>\n

Tonight is the Lawrence Krauss – Brian Greene string theory debate in DC, and next week in Berkeley Krauss is debating John Terning on the subject, at an event entitled Extra Dimensions and String Theory: Physics of the Future or Pure Mathematics?<\/a> The event is organized by the FQXI funded organization Multiversal Journeys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Krauss was at the cosmology conference that Tommaso Dorigo has been reporting on, giving a dinner talk<\/a> dissing anthropic reasoning and pointing out that cosmology has a “miserable future”, since everything is receding from us. His main conference talk<\/a> was evidently not very optimisitic about near-term prospects for learning more about dark energy or dark matter.<\/p>\n

For more about non-commutative geometry and number theory, David Kazhdan is giving a talk at Harvard on April 18 with the following abstract:<\/p>\n

Discussion of Alain Connes formulation of the Andre Weil’s theorem. [ the Riemann conjecture for the functional filed case]. Alain Connes found a very interesting way to interpret the results as a computation of an asymptotic of a family of operators of finite rank.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lieven le Bruyn has a discussion<\/a> of Plato’s cave and a recent paper Modular shadows and the Levy-Mellin infinity-adic transform<\/a>, by Marcolli and Manin, who motivate their title by relating Plato’s cave and holography in AdS\/CFT.
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\nUpdate<\/strong>: The Washington Post’s publication Express has an article about Lawrence Krauss and the problems of string theory, entitled Frayed String<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Science has a report<\/a> on the debate. Also, there’s a report<\/a> (with audio) from a blogger at the Hooded Hawk blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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