geometry and islamic art
Interviewer Luca Mazzucato Why is a scholar of Islamic art attending a conference of string theorists? Both disciplines describe geometry, but only one of them makes use of the amazing technique of animated calligraphy. Keep reading if you want to find out which one… Valerie Gonzalez works at the Institute for the Study of […]
Simons Summer Workshops 2003 through 2010
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entropic gravity
Interviewer Luca Mazzucato An interview with Erik Verlinde. The Dutch physicist, now at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, was recently awarded the $2.5 million Spinoza Prize for his recent idea on entropic gravity. We sat down with him after a colloquium at RenTec, the hedge fund based in Setauket. A new […]
the axiverse
Interviewer Luca Mazzucato An interview with Sergei Dubovsky. The Russian physicist, now at the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics at NYU, is an expert in physics beyond the Standard Model. He is a strong advocate of the Multiverse scenario of String Theory. A strange universe populated by exotic particles called “axions”, that make […]
the formula of love
Interviewer Luca Mazzucato An interview with Edward Frenkel. After leaving Russia, Frenkel obtained his PhD at Harvard University and he is now at Berkeley. His famous work on affine algebras led to the recent breakthroughs in the Geometric Langlands program and its relation to quantum field theory. To hide it from the forces of […]
