{"id":8831,"date":"2016-10-17T19:19:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8831"},"modified":"2016-10-17T19:19:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:19:18","slug":"math-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8831","title":{"rendered":"Math Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few mathematics items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Ben-Zvi&#8217;s overview talk about <em>Representation Theory as Gauge Theory<\/em> given last month at the Clay conference in Oxford that I attended is now available online, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ma.utexas.edu\/users\/benzvi\/clay092216.pdf\">slides<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/187028604\">video<\/a>. Other talks from the conference are <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user7396879\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>My fantasy that I might try and understand arithmetic algebraic geometry by reading <a href=\"http:\/\/bookstore.ams.org\/cworks-24\">Tate&#8217;s collected papers<\/a> keeps getting delayed as the AMS puts off publication (now scheduled for January 18 of next year).  While the books are not available, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/jmilne.org\/math\/xnotes\/TateCW.pdf\">Milne&#8217;s review<\/a> is.<\/li>\n<li>A couple weeks ago there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/ideas\/2016\/langlands-beyond-endoscopy\">Beyond Endoscopy conference<\/a> at the IAS, at the same time I gather functioning as an 80th birthday celebration for Langlands.  There&#8217;s a write-up by Langlands of his talk <a href=\"http:\/\/publications.ias.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/80th_0.pdf\">here<\/a>.  I think it can be described as the current Langlands take on &#8220;Geometric Langlands&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>No recent news I&#8217;m aware of concerning Mochizuki and the the abc conjecture, but Inference magazine has just published a <a href=\"http:\/\/inference-review.com\/article\/fukugen\">long article by Ivan Fesenko<\/a> giving his take on &#8220;Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/breakthroughprize.ucsf.edu\/\">Breakthrough Prize symposium<\/a> this year is scheduled for December 5 at UCSF, so I guess that means the prizes will likely be announced and awards ceremony held December 4, if things go like in recent years.  I have no idea who will get the $3 million math prize since it&#8217;s a relatively new prize and there is a whole world of accomplished mathematicians who would make good candidates.  One can be pretty sure though who won&#8217;t get it, arguably the most accomplished young mathematician around, Peter Scholze (since he turned down the junior version last year).\n<p>I have a modest proposal for whoever is awarded the prize: if you&#8217;re financially pretty well set already, how about doing the math community a huge favor?  Donate the money to your university to endow a faculty position, then use the influence and moral high ground this will buy you to try and convince the Breakthrough Prize people to make this a policy.  In the future, the winner gets a $3 million check made out to their institution to endow a position in their name.  Then they could even try again with Scholze and perhaps get him to accept.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, there will also be a $3 million physics award.  For a while these things were going pretty uniformly to string theorists, then they turned around and started giving them to experimentalists.  I have no idea what they&#8217;ll do this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few mathematics items: David Ben-Zvi&#8217;s overview talk about Representation Theory as Gauge Theory given last month at the Clay conference in Oxford that I attended is now available online, as slides and video. 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