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This is a survey paper, on recent progress around lifting Galois representations. I focused on approaches that solely rely on Galois cohomology. Emphasis is laid on material I talked about, at the conference held in Ottawa in June 2024, to…
The paper describes the contributions of Alain Colmerauer to the areas of logic programs (LP) and constraint logic programs (CLP).
Even if Einstein brought major contributions as a founder of quantum mechanics, he remained deeply unsatisfied with the bases of this structure he knew to be so efficient for physics. His critics are often known through his numerous…
This paper is dedicated to Professor Endre Csakion the occasion of his 65th birthday.
Leo Breiman was a unique character. There will not be another like him. I consider it one of my great fortunes in life to have know and worked with him. Along with John Tukey, Leo had the greatest influence on shaping my approach to…
This article is a contribution to a Festschrift for S. Helgason. After a biographical sketch, we survey some of his research on several topics in geometric and harmonic analysis during his long and influential career. While not an…
Steven Weinberg productive scientific life teaches us many things, one of the most important of which is the power of his example. This essay contains personal reminiscences and a speculation about gravitational wave propagation based on…
I offer a brief summary, with commentary, of theoretical contributions to Moriond QCD 2008.
Lecture notes on an introductory course on arithmetic lattices (EPFL 2014).
The Leuven workshop on the `Quantum Structure of Space-time and the Geometrical Nature of the Fundamental Interactions' had a special session dedicated to the memory of Sonia Stanciu. This is the summary of a talk delivered by the author on…
On the occasion of the 40-th anniversary of IHES I present a few scientific reminiscences: most of my scientific life has been marked by my visits and I run through them concluding with the analysis of a problem that originated during my…
Einstein's contributions to statistical mechanics and quantum theory are reviewed. We also provide a detailed discussion of his thesis on suspensions that led to a good value of the Avogadro number.
This is an article for a general mathematical audience on the author's work, joint with Terence Tao, establishing that there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of primes. It is based on several one hour lectures, chiefly given at…
We expand upon some topics reviewed and sketched in a book to appear with more details, embellishments, and some new material of a speculative nature.
This paper is based on a talk given by the author in October, 1997 at a conference at Columbia University in celebration of Hyman Bass's 65th birthday. The paper details some of the history of Gorenstein rings and their uses.
The Einstein Archives contain a considerable collection of calculations in the form of working sheets and scratch paper, documenting Einstein's scientific preoccupations during the last three decades of his life until his death in 1955.…
Contemporary debates on "open science" mostly focus on the pub- lic accessibility of the products of scientific and academic work. In contrast, this paper presents arguments for "opening" the ongoing work of science. That is, this paper is…
Invited contribution to the inaugural issue of {\em Physics Educator.}
If you only take one thing away from this document I would like it tobe this: Creating accessible documents requires authors have a working understanding of accessibility, and write with accessibility in mind.
In 1994, I came to Berkeley and was fortunate to stay there three years, first as a postdoctoral researcher and then as Neyman Visiting Assistant Professor. For me, this period was a unique opportunity to see other aspects and learn many…