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Meeting the challenge. Eye-roll of the month was surely the Biden Administration telling us that the invasion of our country from the south is not a crisis, merely a
challenge.
When the managerial class tell us that something or other is a
challenge, you can be sure it s a disaster caused by their own crackpot policies. I covered this in Chapter 2 of my spacetime-bending 2009 bestseller
That was when I had just gotten through tossing and goring political scientist Robert Putnam s pimping for diversity in the teeth of all the evidence of his own researches. Then:
Professor Putnam tells us in his Uppsala paper that: [T]his article is but a prolegomenon to a larger project on how to manage the challenge that immigration and diversity pose to social capital and solidarity.
As part of the EPSRC Taught Course Centre I am giving a course on formalising mathematics. This is a course for mathematics PhD students enrolled at Imperial College London, Bristol, Bath, Oxford, or Warwick. No formalisation experience will be assumed. Details of the course are available at the second link above. I have been timetabled eight 2-hour lectures on Thursdays 4-6pm UK time, starting this coming Thursday, 21st Jan 2021.
My instinct in the first lecture would be to start by listing a bunch of reasons why learning how to formalise pure mathematics is interesting/useful/important/whatever, and perhaps also explaining how I got involved with it. But I could probably spend about 30 minutes on this, and I don’t want to waste valuable lecture time on it. In fact I won’t actually be giving lectures at all the 2-hour slots will be mini Lean workshops, where beginners formalise mathematics they know, with me watching, and I cannot see the point of making the students listen t
Courtesy of Alexander Kusenko and Chandrashekhar Khare
From left: Alexander Kusenko and Chandrashekhar Khare Stuart Wolpert |
February 16, 2021
Alexander Kusenko, professor of physics and astronomy, and Chandrashekhar Khare, professor of mathematics and the David Saxon Presidential Term Chair in Mathematics, have been awarded 2021 fellowships from the Simons Foundation.
Kusenko, a fellow of American Physical Society, was awarded one of five fellowships in theoretical physics to support his research at the intersection of theoretical particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. His research expertise includes neutrino physics and astrophysics; primordial black holes, which could form in the early universe and could play an important role in generating heavy elements, such as gold and uranium, whose origin is a long-standing mystery; mysterious dark matter in the universe; gamma rays, ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and their cosmic connections.