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Peter Woit

Peter Woit is currently Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. He began his career with a 1985 doctoral degree in theoretical physics from Princeton, then held postdoctoral positions in physics (Stony Brook) and mathematics (MSRI-Berkeley) before coming to Columbia in 1989. He is the author of a 2006 popular book, Not Even Wrong, and a textbook on quantum mechanics and representation theory to be published next year. Since 2004 he has been blogging about mathematics and physics-related topics at http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/blog

Voevodsky and Proof Assistants

Credit: © Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation / Flemming – 2016 Vladimir Voevodsky was awarded the Fields Medal in 2002 for his work on motivic cohomology leading to a proof of the Milnor conjecture. He’s here …

26. Sep 2016 | By Peter Woit | 4 comments

Sir Michael Atiyah and the Unity of Mathematics and Physics

Credit: © Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation / Flemming – 2016 Sir Michael Atiyah is here at the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum both as a Fields Medalist (1966) and a winner of the Abel Prize (2004). …

23. Sep 2016 | By Peter Woit | 1 comment

The Langlands Program, Part II

In a previous posting I explained a bit about the Langlands program, and the role of Fields medalist Ngô Bảo Châu in finishing the proof of a special case of the general functoriality conjecture. The …

22. Sep 2016 | By Peter Woit | 0 comments

The Langlands Program, Part I

The Langlands program is the name generally given to a highly influential vision unifying two different areas of mathematics, referring to a set of ideas first brought to light by Robert Langlands at the end …

22. Sep 2016 | By Peter Woit | 1 comment

A Conversation with Gerd Faltings

Fields medalist Gerd Faltings is here in Heidelberg for the HLF, and while he’s not giving a talk he will be participating in other activities such as visits by the laureates to local schools. He’s …

20. Sep 2016 | By Peter Woit | 0 comments