Monthly Archives: October 2012

Transcript Peter Woit: Well there is something that I was thinking about while watching these talks. I felt it was amazing hearing a couple of talks per day. One thing that was amazing was a kind of sweep of these … Continue reading →

What did you think of the symposium? The inaugural Fields Medal Symposium has taken a good amount of running around on my part and I did not get a chance to do what I love doing, writing about math! Well … Continue reading →

[Note: There will be much longer posts on each of the speakers mentioned in the videos.] Public Event Recording, October 15, 2012 http://audability.com/AudabilityAdmin/Clients/FieldsInstitute/101343_1015201270000PM/registrationform.aspx?Event_ID=1343 The Langlands Program: Number Theory, Geometry and the Fundamental Lemma James Arthur, University of Toronto The Fundamental … Continue reading →

So this week has been a little busy, to say the least. Blogging about every single lecture in real time was not possible, however I will be blogging each day following the conference to highlight the work of one of … Continue reading →

Why did Langlands call them Endoscopic Groups? I don’t have a good answer to this question, but I will do a bit of digging. This is one question I will ask Prof. Shelstad tomorrow. Since the average length of papers relating … Continue reading →

This October, the inaugural Fields Medal Symposium will mark the repatriation of the Fields Medal back to its Canadian origins. The Fields Medal was established by Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields in the early 1900’s. It is the international mathematical … Continue reading →