Related papers: Number Gossip
This is an expository article to accompany my two lectures at the CDM conference. I have used this an excuse to make public two sets of notes I had lying around, and also to put together a short reader's guide to some recent joint work with…
Contents: We hear that... by Jorge Pullin * Reflections of a decade: Matters of Gravity and the Topical Group in Gravitation, by Beverly Berger 10 Years in Gravitational Wave Detection, by Peter Saulson Ten years of general relativity, some…
These notes contain an introduction to proofs of Farrell-Jones Conjecture for some groups and are based on talks given in Ohio, Oxford, Berlin, Shanghai, M\"unster and Oberwolfach in 2011 and 2012.
These notes provide a short, focused introduction to modelling stochastic gene expression, including a derivation of the master equation, the recovery of deterministic dynamics, birth-and-death processes, and Langevin theory. The notes were…
I offer a brief summary, with commentary, of theoretical contributions to Moriond QCD 2008.
Contents: Community news: - We hear that... by Jorge Pullin Research briefs: - Update on a busy year for LIGO, by Stan Whitcomb - First year results from WMAP, by Rachel Bean - Short range searches for non-Newtonian gravity, by M. Varney…
These informal notes concern some basic themes of harmonic analysis related to representations of groups.
We consider the average probability X of being informed on a gossip in a given social network. The network is modeled within the random graph theory of Erdos and Renyi. In this theory, a network is characterized by two parameters: the size…
These are lecture notes from my talks at the "Current Developments in Mathematics" conference (Harvard, 2006). They cover a variety of topics involving symplectic cohomology. In particular, a discussion of (algorithmic) classification…
This article is a draft of a book chapter of the book entitled "Quantum Percolation and Breakdown", to appear 2008.
In this paper, we propose new generalizations of amicable numbers. We also give examples and prove properties of these new concepts.
The CHARM 2010 meeting had over 30 presentations of experimental results, plus additional future facilities talks just before this summary talk. Since there is not enough time even to summarize all that has been shown from experiments and…
Last year, in 2008, I gave a talk titled {\it Quantum Calisthenics}. This year I am going to tell you about how the work I described then has spun off into a most unlikely direction. What I am going to talk about is how one maps the problem…
A Comment on the Letter by Raphael Blumenfeld and Sam F. Edwards, [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 114303 (2003)].
6 pages; Subm. to AIP Conf. Proceedings
Contents: *News: April 1997 Joint APS/AAPT Meeting, by Beverly Berger The physics survey and committee on gravitational physics, by Jim Hartle *Research Briefs: Instability of rotating stars to axial perturbations, by Sharon Morsink LIGO…
This is a collection of variants of Schanuel's conjecture and the known dependencies between them. It was originally written in 2007, and made available for a time on my webpage. I have been asked by a few people to make it available again…
For many years, I have been collecting math jokes and posting them on my website. I have more than 400 jokes there. In this paper, which is an extended version of my talk at the G4G15, I would like to present 66 of them.
This paper also has excessive overlap with the following papers also written by the authors or their collaborators: gr-qc/0608014, gr-qc/0511095, gr-qc/0505078, gr-qc/0502060, gr-qc/0603027, gr-qc/0606028, gr-qc/0607109, gr-qc/0607110,…
Lecture notes on an introductory course on arithmetic lattices (EPFL 2014).