AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously impossible - even if it does occasionally "cheat" to find a solution
The Chalkdust dissertation competition is back!! You could win Β£100 (courtesy of the IMA) - head to chalkdustmagazine.co... for details!
π¦π¨π¦ New Chalkdust alert! π¦π¨π¦
DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Read the entire new issue now at
chalkdustmagazine.com
I'm happy to share that our research center is now an Institute, and I'm now the Asst. Vice President (AVP) for Research Computing. Very grateful to URI Senior Leadership for strong and steadfast support over the years!
I suspect academic cheating is more complicated than people think. Anyone know of any good studies?
If you've got a theory, you don't just have to test it. You have to make sure it agrees with past tests, too.
Congratulations to this year's Physics Nobel laureates!
I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...
GGI workshop: Advanced School on Precision Cosmology and Dark Matter, Aug 25-29
Available now, more upcoming
Julien Lesgourgues: CMB and linear theory, 3 lectures
Hongwan Liu: Cosmology beyond ΞCDM, 1 lecture
playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
website: www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...
[SCGP][50 years of the black hole information paradox]
Black holes and Thermodynamics
Robert Wald
Lectures:
1 - scgp.stonybrook.edu/video/video....
2 - scgp.stonybrook.edu/video/video....
3 - scgp.stonybrook.edu/video/video....
Slides: media.scgp.stonybrook.edu/presentation...
50 years of the black hole information paradox
(October 6 β November 21, 2025)
scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/45326
Recordings:
scgp.stonybrook.edu/video/result...
[Perimeter Institute Graduate Courses]
(March 31 - May 2, 2025)
AdS/CFT by David Kubiznak: pirsa.org/c25013
Cosmology by Neal Dalal: pirsa.org/c25012
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The current moment in US science feels as if all the crackpots who email me with theories of everything based on magic numbers and sculptures made from rubber bands were suddenly put in charge of all science funding, and surrounded by powerful people assuring them they were brilliant.
Deeply harmful to Hopkins and Baltimore, but even more to the health and welfare of people around the world who these programs were helping. Itβs profoundly cruel to target these efforts specifically.
[Theoretical Aspects of Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation - 2025]
(www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...)
Inflation
Antonio Riotto
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
[KITP Program: Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory: High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter, and Quantum Gravity]
(Mar 10 - May 9, 2025)
Recordings
online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/gensy...
Pizza lunch with the groupβalways the best time! Great food, great company, and lots of laughs πππͺπͺ
How do we understand things?
Nabeel S. Qureshi identifies habits that separate deep understanding from superficial knowledge β and how to cultivate them.
Uttaran Ghosh, Sarbari Guha
Formation of Singularity and Apparent Horizon for Dissipative Collapse in $f(R,T)$ Theory of Gravity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05217
Reading a post by a faculty member at UCSB about the current state of funding sparked a lot of thoughts. It inspired me to write the following ππ
If this sentiment resonates with you, Iβd greatly appreciate it if you could repost π€π€π€
Many say theyβll be active on Bluesky, but Iβve noticed my posts get much less attention here than on X or Facebook. If we want this space to thrive, maybe we can all engage more and support one another. What do you think?
Thanks for sharing this.
π¨ Did you know? Quite a few physics textbooks from Cambridge University Press are now OPEN ACCESS! ππ
Explore classics like Foundations of Perturbative QCD (John Collins), Heavy Quark Physics (Manohar & Wise), and more
Check them out here: π
www.cambridge.org/core/browse-...
In the late 1830s, Karl Weierstrass dropped out of university. He is said to have spent his school years drinking and fencing. Decades later, he published a function that threatened everything mathematicians thought they understood about calculus. www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-m...
The biggest scientific discoveries in the Universe are finally within reach.
New, superior telescopes and facilities are being built all over the world.
Will the US continue to lead the way in astronomy and science in general?
@StartsWithABang.bsky.social #NSF #MREFC #LIGO
You asked!
We've added Bluesky buttons to the Quanta site to make it easier for you to share our stories on this platform.
Try it on today's article: www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-m...
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are all good things. They donβt happen automatically, we have to actively work to bring them about. Shout it from the rooftops.
We made the big move to Bluesky and are looking forward to connecting here in 2025. Give us a follow and letβs connect!
R.A. Millikan's 1916 Phys.Rev. article
"A Direct Photoelectric Determination of Planck's "h""
inspirehep.net/literature/2...
physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
