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New Post: Vote!! math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

Vote!!

I’d like to echo the sentiment of Scott Aaronson’s latest posting: if you’re in the US, get out and vote against Fascism. We have a two party system, so your choice is voting for …

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New Post: AI and Chiral Fermions math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

AI and Chiral Fermions

It turns out that yesterday there was another AI result coming out of OpenAI, quite different than the slopocalypse and of more interest to fundamental physics. Nathaniel Craig, a particle theorist…

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New Post: Slopocalypse math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

Slopocalypse

OpenAI has just released a vast number of new results in preprint form, see here. These are the products of an internal frontier model. About the AGMAI, they say they “have drawn on their adv…

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New Post: Some HEP-TH News math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

Some HEP-TH News

In a previous posting, I’d noted that the number of arXiv hep-th preprints/month was significantly higher recently, clearly due to LLM use, but that I hadn’t heard of much in the way of…

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New Post: A Modest Proposal math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

A Modest Proposal

The announcement yesterday by OpenAI of a solution to the Millennium Prize Navier-Stokes problem has been causing a great deal of discussion among mathematicians. There’s a lot to be said abo…

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New Post: The Situation at Columbia XXXVII math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

The Situation at Columbia XXXVII

Ever since a new Columbia president (Jennifer Mnookin) was appointed by the trustees back in January, many have been wondering if she would do anything to try and change Columbia’s reputation…

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New Post: The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice

As an antidote to the overwhelmingly depressing news of the world, I highly recommend reading the new article in the New York Times about this mathematical result. There have been some articles abo…

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This Week's Hype math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

This Week’s Hype

The Economist today reports that New theories and experiments should shine light on string theory. This is more of the promotional campaign for Cumrun Vafa’s “dark dimension”. We&…

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HEP-TH and AI math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

HEP-TH and AI

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 rese…

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New Post: Requiem for a Field? math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

Requiem for a Field?

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 re…

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New Post: Various and Sundry math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

Various and Sundry

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 …

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New Post: Notes on Wick Rotation and Chiral Field Theories math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

Notes on Wick Rotation and Chiral Field Theories

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 o…

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New Post: Complexifying the Complex math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

Complexifying the Complex

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…

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New Post: The First AI QFT Textbook math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

The First AI QFT Textbook

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…

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New Post: The Only Game in Town math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

The Only Game in Town

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 Suss…

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New Post: The Floer Jungle math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

The Floer Jungle

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…

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New Post: End of Civilization News math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

End of Civilization News

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 cultu…

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New Post: This Week's Hype math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

This Week’s Hype

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 …

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New Post: Some Notes on AI math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

Some Notes on AI

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 seriousl…

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New post: Wick Rotating Spinors and Twistors math.columbia.edu/~woit/word…

Wick Rotating Spinors and Twistors

A couple weeks ago I gave at talk in Marseille on the general topic of Wick Rotating Spinors and Twistors. I’ll make a few comments here on the content of the slides. The idea of the talk was…

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