{"id":9922,"date":"2018-01-27T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T20:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9922"},"modified":"2018-01-27T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T20:34:37","slug":"quick-links-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9922","title":{"rendered":"Quick Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Various things that may be of interest, ordered from abstract math to concrete physics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jacob Lurie is teaching a course this semester on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.harvard.edu\/~lurie\/278x.html\">Categorical Logic<\/a>.  Way back when I was a student at Harvard this is the kind of thing I would have found very exciting, much less convinced of that now.<\/li>\n<li>Talks from a workshop earlier this month on representation theory are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLTn74Qx5mPsT-AZclS1CiY5dmtreKUUiq\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Harvard Gazette has an article about <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2018\/01\/mathematicians-work-to-expand-pictorial-language-into-other-fields\/\">a project to develop a &#8220;pictorial mathematical language&#8221;<\/a> first proposed by Arthur Jaffe.  The project has a website <a href=\"https:\/\/mathpicture.fas.harvard.edu\/\">here<\/a>.  It is being funded by an offshoot of the Templeton Foundation I didn&#8217;t know about, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonstar.com\/2015\/03\/06\/houghton-to-bahams\/\">Templeton Religion Trust<\/a>, with one of their grants, TRT0080: \u201cConcerning the Mathematical Nature of the Universe\u201d, described as &#8220;exploring whether or not the universe admits of a consistent description, or more generally, whether our universe [can] be described by mathematics?&#8221;.  They&#8217;re advertising a postdoc position <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurjaffe.net\/Assets\/pdf\/2018Postdoctoral%20Position.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Adam Marsh has a wonderful book on <em>Mathematics for Physics<\/em>, especially from the geometrical point of view, with lots of detailed illustrations.  It&#8217;s available from World Scientific <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldscientific.com\/worldscibooks\/10.1142\/10816\">here<\/a>, or as a website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathphysicsbook.com\">here<\/a> (there are also articles on the arXiv, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1412.2393\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1607.03089\">here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a new <a href=\"http:\/\/lctp.physics.lsa.umich.edu\/\">Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics<\/a> at the University of Michigan, funded by an <a href=\"https:\/\/record.umich.edu\/articles\/leinweber-foundation-gives-8m-physics-center-lsa\">$8 million grant from the Leinweber Foundation<\/a>.  Inaugural talk was Arkani-Hamed on <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/umich.edu\/lctp\/other-activities\/public-lectures\/-the-future-of-fundamental-physics\">The Future of Fundamental Physics<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Each year recently there has been a <a href=\"http:\/\/potus.caltech.edu\/\">Physics of the Universe Summit<\/a>, described by some as involving &#8220;one of those glitterati Hollywood banquets&#8221;.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/26\/science\/26essay.html\">Some years ago<\/a>, the glitterati evidently were interested in particle physics, recently instead it is quantum computing and AI (see <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.hep.caltech.edu\/indico\/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&#038;confId=115\">last year<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.hep.caltech.edu\/indico\/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&#038;confId=170\">this year<\/a>).  At this year&#8217;s glitterati banquet, a <a href=\"https:\/\/bfschutz.com\/2018\/01\/24\/the-kidnapping-of-kip-thorne\/\">kidnapping of Kip Thorne<\/a> occurred.<\/li>\n<li>Alex Dragt has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.umd.edu\/dsat\/dsatliemethods.html\"> a book about Lie methods, with applications to Accelerator physics<\/a>. If you&#8217;re looking for detailed very explicit information about symplectic transformations, there is a wealth of such material in this book.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m hearing a rumor (via an anonymous comment here) that HyperKamiokande has been denied funding.  Can anyone confirm or deny?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various things that may be of interest, ordered from abstract math to concrete physics: Jacob Lurie is teaching a course this semester on Categorical Logic. 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