{"id":9373,"date":"2017-07-06T19:01:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9373"},"modified":"2017-07-15T13:16:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T17:16:22","slug":"various-links-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9373","title":{"rendered":"Various Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some links to things that may be of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s an excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/math-has-no-god-particle\/\">article at FiveThirtyEight<\/a> about the issue of publicizing math research, taking as example the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liegroups.org\/\">Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations<\/a> project (which will soon be having a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liegroups.org\/workshop2017\/workshop\/\">workshop<\/a>).  This kind of thing generally gets no public attention, while at the same time, one of the results of this research arguably got too much public attention (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=534\">here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a new \\$1 million mathematics prize that will be awarded for the first time this fall, together with a $1 million physics prize that was awarded for the first time last year. This is called the <a href=\"https:\/\/futureprize.org\/eng\">Future Science Prize<\/a>, and to get it you need to be working in China.  Used to be a \\$1 million prize was a big deal, now with the \\$3 million <a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughprize.org\/\">Breakthrough Prizes<\/a>, a mere million looks like small potatoes.<\/li>\n<li>Another way you could get a measly \\$1 million would be to prove (or disprove) the Hodge conjecture. For some inspiration, see Burt Totaro&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/journals\/bull\/0000-000-00\/S0273-0979-2017-01588-1\/home.html\">survey of progress on the Tate conjecture<\/a> (blog entry <a href=\"https:\/\/burttotaro.wordpress.com\/2017\/06\/20\/new-review-paper-recent-progress-on-the-tate-conjecture\/\">here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>4 gravitons has a <a href=\"https:\/\/4gravitons.wordpress.com\/2017\/06\/09\/you-cant-smooth-the-big-bang\/\">nice posting<\/a> about work by Turok and others about complexified path integrals and cosmology.   The issue of the relation between Euclidean and Minkowski signature QFT is one that I think has gotten far too little attention over the years.  Now that I&#8217;ve finished writing a book with a QFT discussion that sticks to Minkowski space, I&#8217;m hoping to work on writing something about the relation to Euclidean space.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s an interview with Nima Arkani-Hamed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2017-06-08\/physicist-who-always-dreamed-working-us-says-it-s-no-longer-global-center-science\">here<\/a>.  His <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/617679\/contributions\/2614659\/attachments\/1482280\/2299162\/05-Arkani-Hamed.pdf\">talk<\/a> at the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/617679\/timetable\/#all.detailed\">PASCOS 2017<\/a> conference (real title is second slide &#8220;What the Hell is Going On?&#8221;) gives his take on the current state of HEP, post failure of the LHC to find SUSY. He&#8217;s sticking with his 2004 &#8220;Split SUSY&#8221; as his &#8220;Best Bet&#8221;.  I&#8217;d like to think his inspirational ending claiming that the negative LHC results are forcing people to rethink the foundations of the subject, asking again the question &#8220;What is QFT?&#8221; reflects reality, but not sure I see much of that.<\/li>\n<li>This year&#8217;s LHC startup has been going well, with a new luminosity record already set, and 6 inverse fb of data already collected. For more, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/cern-lhc-update-large-hadron-collider-breaks-record-circulating-proton-bunches-2561117\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Remember that &#8220;dark flow&#8221; that was supposed to be in the CMB data and evidence for the multiverse (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5907\">here<\/a>)?  Still not there, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1707.00132\">according to Planck<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WKCosmo\/status\/882186467589713921\">Will Kinney<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  I&#8217;m sorry to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-40617094\">the news<\/a> of the untimely death of Maryam Mirzakhani, who was the first woman to win a Fields medal, awarded at the last ICM in 2014.  Her work was described in detail at the time in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.harvard.edu\/~ctm\/papers\/home\/text\/papers\/icm14\/icm14.pdf\">this article by Curt McMullen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some links to things that may be of interest: There&#8217;s an excellent article at FiveThirtyEight about the issue of publicizing math research, taking as example the Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations project (which will soon be having a workshop). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9373\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9421,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions\/9421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}