This past summer Nordita ran a program on quantum gravity, featuring lectures and panel discussions on various approaches to the subject. Lecture notes from the six mini-courses are now available here ...

It’s been taking me forever to sort out and write down the details of implications of the proposal described here. While waiting for that to be done, I thought it might be a good idea to write up one ...

There’s a new book out this week, a biography of Roger Penrose by Patchen Barss, with the title The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius. Penrose is one of the greatest figures in ...

If a post-truth field of science is going to keep going, it needs to convince funders and the public that progress is being made, so there’s a continual need for people uninterested in truth and ...

November 18th, 2024. University of Michigan. Group, Lie, and Number Theory seminar, 60 minutes : p-adic L-functions for P-ordinary Hida families on unitary groups. November 14th, 2024. University of ...

The square peg problem was posed by Otto Toeplitz in 1911. It asks whether every Jordan curve in the plane contains the vertices of a square, and it is still open to this day. I will survey the ...