Here’s a few new blogs I’ve run across recently:<\/p>\n
Robert Bryant, a great geometer in the Cartan-Chern tradition, now at Duke, has accepted<\/a> the post of next director of MSRI at Berkeley. Robert was here at Columbia recently as a visiting professor, and I think he’s a wonderful choice for leading MSRI.<\/p>\n The Geometry, Topology and Physics Seminar at UCSB has some material from talks there on-line<\/a>. Last month there was a quite interesting talk<\/a> by Sergei Gukov on gauge theory and “arithmetic topology”, meaning some analogies between 3-manifold topology and number theory.<\/p>\n For the past few days in Brussels there has been a Solvay workshop on “Gauge Theories, Strings and Geometry” . Talks are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n From the Fermilab Steering Group trying to develop a strategic roadmap, there’s a presentation<\/a> about possibilities for higher energy colliders than the LHC or ILC. Ideas discussed include a doubling of the LHC energy using new 17 Tesla magnets, and a huge proton-proton collider called the VLHC to be built deep underground, in the Chicago area.<\/p>\n Next month in Paris there will be a Smolin\/Damour debate about string theory, see Dispute chez les physiciens<\/a>.<\/p>\n For an interesting article I just ran across about Geoffrey Chew and S-matrix theory during the 1960s, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a few new blogs I’ve run across recently: The FQXi organization now has a blog called FQXi Community. Rantings of an Angry Physicist is not another Not Even Wrong, but an interesting blog so far devoted to explaining what … Continue reading