I’ve been talking to people and seeing a lot of discussion about the effects of AI agents on math research, but haven’t found much serious discussion of what is happening in hep-th research. I’m curious to hear from those involved … Continue reading →
Kevin Hartnett posted the following Friday: My profile of @Jacob_Tsimerman, published the morning he won the Fields Medal, and hours before he announced he s going to @OpenAI, reads like a requiem for a field. While I m trying to not spend Continue reading
Some things that might be of interest: The ICM is starting next week in Philadelphia. One traditional aspect of the ICM is the announcement of the Fields Medal winners. This year there won t be much surprise, since evidently someone found Continue reading
A few months ago I decided to try and sort out the two dimensional spacetime case of the Wick rotation issues that have been bothering me for years now. It took me a while to understand what goes on in Continue reading
I ve been working recently on trying to understand exactly how Wick rotation works in two-dimensional conformal field theory. There is an analog there of some of the issues with Wick rotation of spinors and twistors in four dimensions that I ve Continue reading
The first surprise of this afternoon was finally finding an informed and sensible discussion of the implications of AI agents for hep-th research, in the form of a twitter thread by stringking42069. The second was learning from the twitter thread Continue reading
Warning: if you follow this blog, you ve heard this many times before, so can move on to something more interesting now. There s a video conversation between Brian Greene and Lenny Susskind from last week here. At 44:02, Susskind has this Continue reading
There s a remarkable new book out about the life and work of Andreas Floer, entitled The Floer Jungle, co-written by writer Siobhan Roberts (author of some great biographies of mathematicians) and mathematician Helmut Hofer. Hofer has also given talks recently Continue reading
The big AI/math news is the release today of the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. It s an excellent attempt to identify the new threats to the intellectual culture of the mathematics community and begin a discussion of what Continue reading
The usual string theory hype machine in action: to celebrate a PRL publication, a university press office puts out a press release full of hype with a highly misleading title ( string theory is uniquely derived from basic assumptions about the Continue reading
This posting is mainly intended to provide some links to material about AI in math and physics that I ve found interesting. I confess that to a large degree I m trying to avoid seriously learning about exactly what is going on, Continue reading