DANIEL POLLACK @danpollack@qoto.org

Really charming "topologists world map."

Forget size or position, this map *only* shows which countries border which other countries: http://tafc.space/qna/the-topologists-world-map/

For the past 3+ years, I've been chairing an all-star National Academies committee charged with creating a series of posters on Illustrating the Impact of Mathematics. The website is finally live, and I'm really excited to share the results!! 💃 Please share!!

#science #mathematics #appliedmathematics #statistics #illustrations

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/other/deps/illustrating-math/interactive/

Interesting thought experiment:

What does it take to succeed in your math course - in terms of prior content, mindset, perspective on math (as more than computation), work ethic, attitude toward working with others, etc.

Why do our systems limit prereq discussions to prior courses, or worse, placement tests?

#ITeachMath

On Martin Davis:

https://dailycal.org/2023/01/08/warm-kind-intellectually-brilliant-mathematician-martin-davis-dies-at-94 by George Bergman

(On a comment in FB, Ken McAloon mentioned that "after retirement he spent lots of time at Berkeley, which he described as `heaven with a library'.")

On Martin and Virginia Davis:

https://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/20341 by their son Harold.

Stephen Hawking was born #OTD in 1942. He developed theorems with Penrose that determine when general relativity produces singularities, established classical laws of black hole mechanics, and hypothesized that quantum effects make black holes radiate.

Image: Santi Visalli/Getty

My PhD supervisor Yuri Manin passed away yesterday.

He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the last 60 years. But for me, he was simultaneously my diploma and PhD supervisor, one of the kindest persons I have ever met, and one of the most intellectually curious.

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Martin Davis's oral history https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/oral-histories/interviews/woh-fi-0000943/martin-davis-2017

Today in 1983, 40 years ago: The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.

#OnThisDay

Everything you always wanted to know about QCD? At any rate, an extraordinary document.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11107

This is an official account of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) in Berkeley, California, formerly known as the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI). Expect more activity from us in the new semester but in the meanwhile, you can find our latest news at https://mailchi.mp/msri/emissary-newsletter-fall-2022-slmath-upcoming-events. #Introduction

It's not just journalists! Even the director of the Institute for Advanced Studies was hoodwinked by scientists claiming they had created a wormhole, Scott Aaronson reports:

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6871

For how these scientists managed to avoid scrutiny - getting their story into the media before anyone who really knows physics could swat it down - read this:

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13209

Hello #Astrodon

I'm a gravitational-wave astronomer researching the formation and evolution of black holes and neutron stars

I primarily work on LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA data analysis, inferring source properties, but I'm also interested in space-based observatories like LISA

I enjoy #SciComm (I want to get back into blogging https://cplberry.com/blog/), and I'm currently a member of the community-science Gravity Spy project https://gravityspy.org/

I also like cake

#Introduction

Come work with us at the University of Washington!

Assistant Professor of Humanities Data Science

https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-details/?job_id=107708

The Koide formula is a mysterious relation between the 3 charged leptons:

the electron,

the muon (like an electron but ~206.768 times heavier),

the tau (like an electron but ~3477 times heavier).

Nobody knows whether it's really true or just a coincidence.

For the most part, serious physicists have given up seeking relations between masses of elementary particles, because it's so hard to *explain* any such relations.

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There's a live feed from the Orion spacecraft as it approaches earth https://youtu.be/GFbVREEtc1Y

The #HuMetricsHSS team is at the University of Washington this week doing a series of workshops on #ValuesEnacted scholarship and institutional transformation.

Our work here in Seattle is based in part on our article entitled “The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00647-z

#HigherEd

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's using it to set up a foundation to improve diversity in STEM.

#WomenInSTEM #Histodons #ScienceHistory

Why I Quit Elon Musk’s Twitter

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-i-quit-elon-musks-twitter