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‘Wittgenstein and Physics’The first one-day conference in series organised by the St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics, Wittgenstein and Physics, took place in Oxford yesterday. Organised by Jo Ashbourn, it was a hugely successful event, highlighting many of Wittgenstein’s important contributions to thinking about the nature of physics.
Left to right: Harvey Brown (philosopher of physics, Oxford University), Rupert Read (philosopher, East Anglia University), Graham, Chon Tejedor (philosopher, Hertfordshire University), Richard Staley (philosopher and historian, Cambridge University), Jo Ashbourn (physicist, Oxford University)
Steven Weinberg – theorist’s theoristSteven Weinberg has been one of the most luminous stars of theoretical physics for fifty years. For over half that time, he has been based at the University of Texas at Austin, where Graham talked with him at length this week about the relationship between pure mathematics and fundamental physics, the subject of Graham’s next book.
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A promising one-day conference Wittgenstein and Physics will be taking place at St Cross College in Oxford on Saturday 22 November. Graham will be chairing the afternoon session. Among the speakers will be Richard Staley, who will be talking about Boltzmann, Mach and Wittgenstein’s Vienna. This is the first event in the programme of St […]
HodgesfestAt the Oxford Mathematical Institute this week, physicists and mathematicians have been celebrating the 65th birthday of Andrew Hodges, pioneer of twistor diagrams and biographer of Alan Turing. Graham attended the meeting, titled New geometric structures in scattering amplitudes, organised in collaboration with the Clay Mathematics Institute and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Andrew Hodges
In conversation with Arkani-Hamed
Edited video of Graham in converation with Nima Arkani-Hamed about where fundamental physics might be heading in the next few decades.
Suarez Tweet goes viral
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Suarez ready for the next match: pic.twitter.com/BjXrZ5lXDC
CNN yesterday afternoon featured Graham’s Tweet about Louis Suarez’s preparations for his next World Cup match.
Meeting the king of the twistorGraham spent last Thursday in Oxford with the great mathematician Roger Penrose, 82, inventor of the mathematical object known as the twistor. In a wide-ranging conversation, Penrose talked about his early life, his development as a scientist and his thoughts on the latest developments in fundamental physics.
Roger Penrose, Oxford, May 2014
Art of ExplainingGraham was on stage in Berlin on Monday evening with Freeman Dyson, Canadian biographer Siobhan Roberts and Russian film-maker Ekaterina Eremenko to discuss ‘The Art of Explaining’. Chaired by the physicist Jochen Bruening, the panel talked about some of the ways of presenting science and mathematics to non-specialist audiences.
Panel at the Restaurant Alpenstueck after their discussion: (left to right) Jochen Bruening, Freeman Dyson, Ekaterina Eremenko, Siobhan Roberts and Graham.
BerlinGraham will be discussing The Art of Explaining with mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson, film-maker Ekaterina Eremenko and biographer Siobhan Roberts. More information: The Art of Explaining (PDF) If you do not have a PDF Reader installed on your computer you can get one here: Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader
Meeting a MasterGraham spent yesterday at the University of Utrecht talking with one of the grandmasters of modern theoretical physics, Gerard ‘t Hooft. In a wide-ranging interview for Graham’s next book, the Dutch scientist reflected on the development of quantum field theory since 1970 and on his thinking about current physics.
