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A slightly revised version of notes distributed during a short course on GPTs, given at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in March and April of 2024.
Comment on "Quantifying the Fraction of Missing Information for Hypothesis Testing in Statistical and Genetic Studies" [arXiv:1102.2774]
A response to a letter to the editor by Schilling regarding Bartroff, Lorden, and Wang ("Optimal and fast confidence intervals for hypergeometric successes" 2022, arXiv:2109.05624)
We show that most of cutoff measures of the multiverse violate some of the basic properties of probability theory when applied repeatedly to predict the results of local experiments. Starting from minimal assumptions, such as Markov…
Revised version to be published in the Proceedings of the Encuentros Relativistas Espa\~noles, September, 2000 [ http://hades.eis.uva.es/EREs2000 ]
This brief note, written for non-specialists, aims at drawing an introductive overview of the multiverse issue.
This is a colloquium style pedagogical introduction to the paradigm of large extra dimensions. To be published in the Proceedings of the Workshop "Crossing the boundaries: Gauge dynamics at strong coupling," (May 14 - 17, 2009,…
This paper has been withdrawn by the author. In this short paper I present a new approach to the problem of measurement, based on the difference between language (reality) and meta-language (meta-reality). This way, it will be shown as the…
This note is a survey of Analysis on Metric spaces, in connection with the upcoming AMS Mathematics Research Communities program in June 2020.
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Talk given at ICM '98, Berlin, reviewing some of the recent developments in understanding of string theory for a mathematical audience (to appear in Documenta Mathematica).
Table of contents: Editorial 1 Correspondents 3 Some recent work in general relativistic Astrophysics 4 Two dimensional black holes 6 Resonant-mass gravitational wave detectors: an update 8 Universality and scaling in gravitational collapse…
Research Briefs: Cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments, by Sean Carroll LISA Project Update by Bill Folkner An update on the r-mode instability, by Nils Andersson Laboratory experiments: news from MG9, by Riley Newman Progress…
This is the rejoinder for discussion of "Multinomial Inverse Regression for Text Analysis", Journal of the American Statistical Association 108, 2013.
This letter is a comment on an article by T.C. Halsey and M.H. Jensen in Nature about using recurrence times as a reliable tool to estimate multifractal dimensions of strange attractors. Our aim is to emphasize that in the recent…
These notes are a considerably revised and expanded version of expository lectures given at the Fields Institute Workshop on "Nonlinear Dispersive Partial Differential Equations and Inverse Scattering" in August 2017. We give a complete and…
we hear that..., by David Garfinkle APS April Meeting, by David Garfinkle
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In this paper we correct an inaccuracy that appears in the proof of Theorem 1. in Czerwik's article "Contraction mappings in $b$-metric spaces.", Acta Math. Inform. Univ. Ostraviensis, 1:5--11, 1993.