{"id":6712,"date":"2014-02-24T19:31:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T00:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2014-03-12T11:31:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T15:31:39","slug":"more-quick-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=6712","title":{"rendered":"More Quick Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, a couple of examples of recent progress in mathematics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Terry Tao has some new ideas about the Navier-Stokes equation.  See his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/terrytao.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/04\/finite-time-blowup-for-an-averaged-three-dimensional-navier-stokes-equation\/\">here<\/a>, a paper <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1402.0290\">here<\/a>, and a story by Erica Klarreich at Quanta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/quanta\/20140224-a-fluid-new-path-in-grand-math-challenge\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been hoping to find more time to learn enough to write something intelligible about a major new advance: Peter Scholze&#8217;s recent work on the p-adic geometry of Shimura varieties and results linking torsion classes and Galois representations.  I&#8217;m still far from being up to that task, but Scholze&#8217;s Marston Morse lectures at the IAS are a good place to start (see <a href=\"http:\/\/video.ias.edu\/marston\/2014\/0210-PeterScholze\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/video.ias.edu\/marston\/2014\/0212-PeterScholze\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/video.ias.edu\/marston\/2014\/0214-PeterScholze\">here<\/a>).  Last week MSRI hosted a very successful week-long &#8220;Hot Topics&#8221; program on this, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msri.org\/workshops\/731\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>For more IAS talks, see &#8220;Cross-disciplinary&#8221; talks last week by <a href=\"http:\/\/video.ias.edu\/crossdisciplinary\/2014\/0220-EdwardWitten\">Witten<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/video.ias.edu\/crossdisciplinary\/2014\/0220-NathanSeiberg\">Seiberg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/video.ias.edu\/crossdisciplinary\/2014\/0220-JuanMaldacena\">Maldacena<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/einstein-s-lost-theory-uncovered-1.14767\">Nature<\/a> has a story about a <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1402.0132\">recent discovery<\/a> by Cormac O&#8217;Raifertaigh and collaborators of an unpublished manuscript by Einstein containing a &#8220;steady-state&#8221; cosmological model.<\/li>\n<li>A computer scientist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763\">has identified<\/a> more than 120 papers published in supposedly peer-reviewed conference proceedings that were all randomly generated gibberish produced by the program SCIgen.  No, these didn&#8217;t appear in bogus &#8220;open access&#8221; publications, but in subscription publications from Spring and the IEEE.  What&#8217;s going on is described as a &#8220;spamming war at the heart of science&#8221;.<\/li>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  One more, for those of you not getting enough multiverse.  Today&#8217;s Washington post has an op-ed from Bush speech-writer Michael Gerson (at one point the ninth most influential evangelical Christian in the US, if you believe Wikipedia and Time).  The title is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/michael-gerson-physics-is-enjoying-a-golden-age\/2014\/02\/24\/27b5f8d8-9d7e-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html\">Physics is Enjoying a Golden Age<\/a> (also available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydesert.com\/article\/20140224\/OPINION\/302240007\/Michael-Gerson-Our-Mathematical-Universe-Max-Tegmark-Physics\">here<\/a>).  Gerson thinks physics is in a Golden Age because he has just read Tegmark&#8217;s book and is very excited that physics has now become metaphysics, with room for God again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The point here is not that Tegmark\u2019s theories are broadly accepted, only that such theories are no longer considered absurd. Physics has seen the return of the unseen \u2014 parallel universes, infinitesimal strings, floating and colliding branes \u2014 that are reasonably inferred without being physically observed. I can think of other creative forces in that category. Not for centuries has physics been so open to metaphysics, or more amenable to an ancient attitude: a sense of wonder about things above and within.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, a couple of examples of recent progress in mathematics Terry Tao has some new ideas about the Navier-Stokes equation. See his blog here, a paper here, and a story by Erica Klarreich at Quanta here. 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