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Mathilde Marcolli is definitely a ronin of noncommutative geometry ( ).
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Her last book on “Noncommutative Geometry” is a very nice example of this inclination (the first chapter is free of charge at the Publisher website and is worth reading as a fresh review ). On the opposite Marcolli has always been willing to build bridges between NCG and the other speculative ideas in theoretical physics. This tremendous work should have heightened the unrest created by necessary compromises due to different points of view or conflicting agendas not to mention the meeting of two strong inspirational but not necessary complementary personnalities.įor instance Connes has never hidden his skepticism about supersymmetry, string theories or loop quantum gravity and wants to keep forging ahead his spectral non-commutative geometry (NCG) project. Following the tracks made by the falks who build the standard theory of Yang-Mills-Higgs interactions in the quantum world and walking in the steps of Grothendieck motives, they delivered in common an ambitious and dense book : “Noncommutative Geometry, Quantum Fields and Motives” that must not have been easy to write. To provide justice or – in a less “Postmodernist” way for Jim Given 😉 – to pay a fair tribute to the mathematical- physics work of Mathilde Marcolli, it could be worth quoting explicitly her partnership with Connes in the exploration and distillation of space-time and the geometric setting of prime numbers, chasing in parallel nothing less than the Rieman hypothesis and quantum gravity. Supposedly talks will be livestreamed on Youtube (perhaps here?). Update: This Friday and Saturday there will be a meeting in Cambridge on the topic of Ethics in Mathematics. Good luck to him on getting tenure! Howe duality is very much worth knowing about, here’s an expository treatment.
I’d missed the news that Roger Howe now has a tenure-track position at Texas A & M.
For an example of his music, listen to Lobachevsky.
Mathematician/musician Tom Lehrer is 90 this month, and there’s a story about him at Nature.
John Baez has an ongoing online course on Applied Category Theory.
The latest Notices has an interesting and extensive article about Claire Voisin.
There will also every two years be a David Goss prize awarded to a young researcher in number theory. He tells me that the journal will sponsor a biennial conference, first one next year, announcement here.
My colleague Dorian Goldfeld has become editor of the Journal of Number Theory, succeeding David Goss, who passed away last year.
Quanta magazine has an excellent article by Kevin Hartnett on the state of efforts by mathematicians to understand mirror symmetry.
Matilde Marcolli and Ben Webster are now joining them as Associate Faculty.
The Perimeter Institute has been moving towards an increased engagement with mathematics and mathematicians in recent years.
