{"id":6279,"date":"2013-09-26T16:57:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T20:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=6279"},"modified":"2013-10-22T12:31:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:31:45","slug":"quick-links-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=6279","title":{"rendered":"Quick Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The new issue of <em>Nautilus<\/em> has a wonderful story about Yitang Zhang, called <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/5\/fame\/the-twin-prime-hero\">The Twin Prime Hero<\/a>, which includes a long interview with him.  Zhang&#8217;s remarkable mathematical career includes several years working at a Subway in Kentucky. His sucessful work on the twin prime conjecture (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5865\">here<\/a>) was done over four years, working seven days a week without almost any breaks, while teaching two classes at a time.<\/li>\n<li>This year&#8217;s Physics Nobels will be announced October 8, Nature has a story <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/2013\/09\/nobel-prize-guessing-game-begins.html\">here<\/a>.  For non-HEP physics, I have no ideas about likely winners. For HEP, of course the Higgs is the big news. Personally I think they should give the award to CERN + ATLAS + CMS, but that would require changing their tradition of not making this award to groups.  Seems like a good time to change this.  On the theory side, in some sense it is Weinberg-Salam that has been vindicated, and they already got the prize for this.  If one wanted to give a prize for the general idea of the Higgs mechanism, I&#8217;ve argued that Anderson should be included (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3282\">here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>This weekend the IAS will host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ias.edu\/news\/dyson-dreams\">Dreams of Earth and Sky<\/a>, a celebration of Freeman Dyson&#8217;s 90th birthday, see more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princetoninfo.com\/index.php?option=com_us1more&#038;Itemid=6&#038;key=9-25-13freeman\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not going to the Dyson-fest, but am looking forward to seeing the film <a href=\"http:\/\/particlefever.com\/\">Particle Fever<\/a> this weekend at the New York Film Festival.<\/li>\n<li>Next weekend it will be not physics, but math, as I&#8217;ll be at the Simons Foundation day-long program on October 5, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/features\/simons-foundation-lectures\/deligne-day\/deligne-day-october-5-2013\/\">Celebrating the Mathematics of Pierre Deligne<\/a>. Recently I&#8217;ve been spending some time watching Deligne&#8217;s lectures from this past spring at the IHES, available in high quality video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihes.fr\/jsp\/site\/Portal.jsp?document_id=3309&#038;portlet_id=1146\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The only mention of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2rjbtsX7twc\">Bohemian Gravity!<\/a> here was in a comment a while back, and I hadn&#8217;t added more, since this has gotten attention from hundreds of other sources. But of course it really is great and deserves all the attention and more, so if you&#8217;re the only reader of this blog who hasn&#8217;t checked it out, do so now.<\/li>\n<li>Frank Wilczek has been very active on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankWilczek\">Twitter<\/a> recently, and a directory of some of his recent writings is <a href=\"http:\/\/frankwilczek.com\/2013\/\">here<\/a>.  According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankWilczek\/status\/383236732990128128\">this tweet<\/a>, he has plans at some point to break out of the 120 character limit.<\/li>\n<li>Latest news from the LHC is <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=271224\">here<\/a>.  Work is on schedule for January 2015 first beams at a higher energy of 13 TeV.<\/li>\n<li>For an example showing that some basic technical questions about the Standard Model are still poorly understood and deserve a lot more attention, see Michael Creutz&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ectstar.eu\/sites\/www.ectstar.eu\/files\/talks\/QCD-TNT-III-Creutz.pdf\">talk on Chiral Symmetries and Lattice Fermions<\/a> at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ectstar.eu\/node\/85\">recent QCD conference<\/a>, as well as the preprint version <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1309.6288\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  In case you don&#8217;t get enough material from me here explaining what the problem is with the &#8220;multiverse&#8221;, Sabine Hossenfelder has more <a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/the-multiverse-is-not-paradigm-and-its.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of Nautilus has a wonderful story about Yitang Zhang, called The Twin Prime Hero, which includes a long interview with him. 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