Monthly Archives: January 2006

There’s a review of Susskind’s book The Cosmic Landscape in this Sunday’s New York Times book review section. The reviewer does a reasonably good job of laying out what the Landscape controversy is about, characterizing Susskind’s attitude as “braggadocio” with … Continue reading →

Federal funding for high energy physics in the US has been declining significantly in recent years. The recently completed FY 2006 budget has a 2.7% cut for high energy physics in the DOE budget, which provides the bulk of US … Continue reading →

Over the last couple years there has been a large amount of hype about cosmic strings, including press releases from Santa Barbara, and a story in New Scientist about The First Evidence for String Theory?. The Santa Barbara press release … Continue reading →

Mathematician David Goss wrote to tell me about the latest issue of the journal Current Science, which contains quite a few articles on Einstein’s legacy, including an interesting one on Einstein and the search for unification by physicist David Gross. … Continue reading →

The February issue of Discover Magazine contains an interview of me by writer Susan Kruglinski. I haven’t seen the magazine itself, and it’s not yet on the newsstands here, but a friend who subscribes was kind enough to send me … Continue reading →

For many years C. J. Mozzochi has been taking photographs of mathematicians, primarily at mathematics conferences and lectures in Princeton or in the New York City area. With help from Mark Goresky, he now has a web-site where you can … Continue reading →

Follow-Ups to two recent postings: Michael Duff has written a letter to New Scientist complaining about their recent editorial Physics’ greatest endeavour is grinding to a halt. Duff begins by claiming: History has shown that rapid confirmation by experiment is … Continue reading →

An assortment of interesting things I’ve run across recently: There’s something called Multiversal Journeys that seems to organize lecture series on theoretical physics, with a special interest in the multiverse (at least to the extent of using it as an … Continue reading →

There’s an article in this week’s Nature by Geoff Brumfiel entitled Outrageous Fortune about the anthropic Landscape debate. The particle physicists quoted are ones whose views are well-known: Susskind, Weinberg, Polchinski, Arkani-Hamed and Maldacena all line up in favor of … Continue reading →

Nikita Nekrasov is giving a very interesting series of talks at the Jerusalem Winter School on the topic of “Introduction to modern covariant superstring theory.” The first of his talks was yesterday and is now on-line. In it he outlined … Continue reading →