{"id":6558,"date":"2014-01-02T17:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T22:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=6558"},"modified":"2014-01-02T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T22:58:13","slug":"short-items-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=6558","title":{"rendered":"Short Items"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Harvard has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2013\/12\/harvard-announces-evergrande-support-of-three-initiatives\/\">announced<\/a> that the Chinese firm Evergrande Group will be supporting various activities at Harvard, including a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.harvard.edu\/center\/\">Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications<\/a>, with S.-T. Yau as director.  No details of what the center will do other than &#8220;serve as a fusion point for mathematics, statistics, physics, and related sciences.&#8221;  The company has its own announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evergrande.com\/en\/news.aspx?uc=detail&#038;fid=120&#038;ftid=6430\">here<\/a> (they might want to check on the name of Harvard&#8217;s President&#8230;).<\/li>\n<li>The new Physics Today has an article <a href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/content\/aip\/magazine\/physicstoday\/article\/67\/1\/10.1063\/PT.3.2244\">Paul Ehrenfest&#8217;s final years<\/a>, a sad bit of physics history I&#8217;d never seen the details of.<\/li>\n<li>Last month in Moscow there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/bogomolov-lab.ru\/rep2013\/conf.html\">conference for Boris Feigin&#8217;s 60th birthday<\/a>.  Videos of the talks are now available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathnet.ru\/php\/conference.phtml?option_lang=eng&#038;eventID=1&#038;confid=498\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Dick Gross&#8217;s wonderful lecture series here at Columbia on <em>Representation theory and number theory<\/em> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL5E0D6DC4BCD8309D\">available on video<\/a> since he gave the lectures. Now Chao Li at Harvard has produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.harvard.edu\/~chaoli\/doc\/EilenbergLectures.html\">transcription of the talks<\/a>, so a high-quality written version of the material of the lectures is now available.  This is one of the best sources around to learn about the local Langlands conjectures.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.harvard.edu\/~chaoli\/\">His website<\/a> contains a lot of other interesting expository material.<\/li>\n<li>Phenomenologist Jay Wacker has a blog at Quora, called <a href=\"http:\/\/particlephysics.quora.com\/\">Particle Physics Digressions<\/a>. The latest entry is an odd tale of something I would have thought was rather unusual, but Wacker says it&#8217;s not exceptional, happens everyday.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard has announced that the Chinese firm Evergrande Group will be supporting various activities at Harvard, including a new Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications, with S.-T. Yau as director. 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