{"id":5651,"date":"2013-03-16T16:12:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T20:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2013-03-22T13:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T17:50:23","slug":"busy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5651","title":{"rendered":"Busy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There should be lots of breaking news this upcoming week, sometimes with real-time webcasts for those that want to follow along:\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planck data release on Thursday the 21st.  Media briefing in Paris will be at 10am local time, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Planck\/Call_for_Media_First_cosmology_results_from_ESA_s_Planck_mission\">here<\/a>.  In the US, NASA will host a press conference at 11am EDT, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/hqnews\/2013\/mar\/HQ_M13-048_Planck_Update.html\">here<\/a>.\n<p>The night before here in New York at 7:30 pm (watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnh.org\/live\">here<\/a>) two journalists and three leading cosmology theorists will be discussing the emergence of the universe or multiverse from nothing. Perhaps someone will ask them what this theoretical work implies in terms of predictions for the new results to come out the next day.<\/li>\n<li>On March 20th at noon in Norway, the winner of the 2013 Abel Prize in Mathematics will be announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abelprize.no\/\">here<\/a>.  This is a prize of about $1 million, set up in 2002 to be an equivalent of a Nobel prize in mathematics.  They seem to like to give this one to people from the Courant Institute here in New York.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m wondering what&#8217;s up with the Templeton Prize, a $1.66 million dollar prize normally awarded each year in March.  Haven&#8217;t seen any announcements, but perhaps this will also happen this week.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, there&#8217;s Yuri Milner&#8217;s Fundamental Physics Prize, which at $3 million makes everyone else look like pikers.  Last December, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fundamentalphysicsprize.org\/news\/news3\">news<\/a> was that the award would be announced at a ceremony at CERN on March 20.  Candidates for the prize are a group of three condensed matter physicists, string theorist Joe Polchinski of UCSB, and string theorist Alexander Polyakov of Princeton.  With the decision being made by a group of previous winners largely consisting of string theorists from Princeton, if I had to guess the winner, I&#8217;d go with the string theorist from Princeton.  Coincidentally or not, Polyakov is scheduled to give the String Theory Seminar at CERN on March 20, on the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=240447\">Sensitive, unstable and turbulent vacua<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  The Fundamental Physics Prize announcement will be Wednesday at 8pm, live webcast <a href=\"http:\/\/webcast.web.cern.ch\/webcast\/play.php?event=241643\">here<\/a>.  The IAS faculty will be there in force, with TH String Theory Seminars scheduled for <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=238827\">Arkani-Hamed<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=240216\">Witten<\/a> on Tuesday, Seiberg on <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=236732\">Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  The Templeton Prize will be announce April 4, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templetonprize.org\/pdfs\/2013_prize\/tp-advisory-20130321.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There should be lots of breaking news this upcoming week, sometimes with real-time webcasts for those that want to follow along: Planck data release on Thursday the 21st. 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