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TLDL on Player FMDesperately Seeking Symmetry - RadiolabThis hour of Radiolab, former co-hosts Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence -- from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror.Along the way, we look for love in ancient Greece, head to modern-day Princeton to peer inside our brains, and turn up an unlikely headline from the Oval Office circa 1979.EPISODE CITATIONS:Videos - Back in the day, when we first aired this episode, t...2025-07-1100 min
RadiolabDesperately Seeking SymmetryThis hour of Radiolab, former co-hosts Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence -- from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror.Along the way, we look for love in ancient Greece, head to modern-day Princeton to peer inside our brains, and turn up an unlikely headline from the Oval Office circa 1979.EPISODE CITATIONS:Videos - Back in the day, when we first aired this episode, t...2025-07-1157 min
Ribbit RibbitAI on the Air: Apr 30's Fresh Picks from ArXivToday's AI scoop: 313 new papers on ArXiv with 56 key highlights. For more details, visit https://ribbitribbit.co/podcast00:28 - arxiv:2504.20401 Princeton University00:45 - arxiv:2504.20456 Stanford University01:10 - arxiv:2504.20310 Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of California at Berkeley01:32 - arxiv:2504.20168 Carnegie Mellon University, Microsoft01:56 - arxiv:2504.20974 Chalmers University of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology02:20 - arxiv:2504.20995 UMass Amherst, HKUST, Harvard University02:46 - arxiv:2504.20412 Columbia University, University of Minnesota, Google...03:10 - arxiv:2504.20690 Zhejiang University, Harvard University03:32 - arxiv:2504.20595 FAIR at...2025-05-0123 minRibbit RibbitAI on the Air: Mar 28's Fresh Picks from ArXivToday's AI scoop: 599 new papers on ArXiv with 124 key highlights. For more details, visit https://ribbitribbit.co/podcast00:29 - arxiv:2503.21770 Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, University of California Berkeley00:54 - arxiv:2503.20208 University of California San Diego, Tsinghua University, Hillbot01:17 - arxiv:2503.20672 Tsinghua University, Brown University, University of Liverpool...01:39 - arxiv:2503.21172 HKUST, UCAS, Microsoft Research02:03 - arxiv:2503.21745 Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...02:29 - arxiv:2503.20201 Sentient, University of Washington, Princeton University...02:53 - arxiv:2503.20348 Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Tuebingen, Max Planck Institute for Informatics...2025-03-2950 min
Phymaths podcastPhymaths podcast # 52 || Guest: Dr. Rajesh GopakumarDescription
Dr. Rajesh Gopakumar is a theoretical physicist, who has majorly worked on holographic duality in his career. He got his Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of David Gross and right now, he is the director of ICTS Bangalore in India. The list of his works is available below.
Some links
1) Dr. Gopakumar's list of works: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1007959
2) Link to the high energy physics resources page on my website: https://hassaansaleem.com/graduate-level-theoretical-physics-resources-in-progress/
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RadiolabSmarty PlantsIn an episode we first aired in 2018, we asked the question, do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? To remember? Or even learn? Well, it depends on who you ask. Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. Today, Robert drags Jad along on a parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, we dig into the work of evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns our brain-centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that...2025-01-1034 min
Contemporaneamente podcast di Mariantonietta FirmaniLoris Cecchini, Gigliola Staffilani, arte e matematicaIn questo audio il prezioso incontro con Loris Cecchini artista e Gigliola Staffilani matematica. L’intervista è in Contemporaneamente di Mariantonietta Firmani, il podcast divulgato da Parallelo42.it e Artriune https://www.artribune.com/author/mariantoniettafirmani/Con Loris Cecchini e Gigliola Staffilani parliamo di arte e matematica, di studio e curiosità, equazioni e rappresentazioni. Di incrocio di saperi e di linguaggi, di algoritmi e spazi euclidei, di relazioni umane sincere oltre le torri d’avorio. Ed ancora, parliamo di matematica, eccessivamente astratta in Italia, ricondotta sempre al reale i...2024-04-301h 13
Terrenal29. Milton Friedman: capitalismo y libertad (1912-2006)En este episodio de Terrenal, Andrés Mejía y Andrés Caro hablan de la vida de Milton Friedman, el gran economista e intelectual norteamericano, defensor del libre mercado y del capitalismo. Hablan de sus orígenes familiares, hijo de inmigrantes judíos húngaros, hasta su rol, cuestionado, como defensor de las instituciones liberales y de las reformas adelantadas por gobiernos conservadores en los años 70, 80 y 90. Hablan de sus relaciones de trabajo y románticas, de su paso por varias universidades y de su visita al Chile del dictador Augusto Pinochet.
Milton Friedman...2024-04-182h 09
Women Over 70: Aging ReimaginedColeen T. Murphy, Ph.D: Cognitive Aging: The Science of LongevityColeen T. Murphy, Ph.D is Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, James A. Elkins, Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology, and LSI Genomics, Princeton University. She is also Director, Paul F. Glenn Center for Aging Research at Princeton and Director of Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain. As a researcher, Coleen studies aging and the quantitation of “quality of life with age,” including the decline of cognitive and reproductive capacities with age. She is author of How We Age: The Science of Longevity. It is surprisi...2024-04-1029 min
Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa MariaHow We Age w/ Coleen MurphyIn this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by Princeton University Professor and leading scholar in aging, Dr. Coleen T. Murphy. Coleen is the Director of the Lewis Sigler Institute of Genomics and professor of genomics and molecular biology at Princeton University. She is also director of Princeton’s Glenn Foundation for Research on Aging and the director of the Simons Collaboration on Plasticity in the Aging Brain. They discuss her new book, “How We Age: The Science of Longevity.” Follow Coleen: @ctmurphy12024-02-2654 min
The Cambridge Union | In Conversation With...Sabrina Paterski | Cambridge UnionSabrina Paterski speaks in the Keynes Library at 5:30pm on Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Sabrina is a high energy theoretical physicist and advocate for women in STEM.
Throughout her adolescent years in Chicago, she was fascinated by
aerospace engineering, building and flying her own single-engine plane as a teenager, before switching to physics during her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She earned her PhD from Harvard University, wher her early work resulted in the discovery of the "spin memory effect," which may be used to detect or verify the net effects of gravitational...2024-02-0753 min
RadiolabG: Relative GeniusAlbert Einstein asked that when he died, his body be cremated and his ashes be scattered in a secret location. He didn’t want his grave, or his body, becoming a shrine to his genius. When he passed away in the early morning hours of April, 18, 1955, his family knew his wishes. There was only one problem: the pathologist who did the autopsy had different plans.In the third episode of “G”, Radiolab’s miniseries on intelligence, first aired back in 2019 we go on one of the strangest scavenger hunts for genius the world has ever seen. We follow E...2024-02-021h 14
Into the Impossible With Brian KeatingEXCLUSIVE: Katherine Freese Has Evidence of Dark Stars!Katherine Freese first presented the concept of dark stars at a conference in 2007. It was not well received at the time, as there was no evidence for it, and finding it seemed impossible.That is until recently…Katherine Freese is a renowned theoretical physicist, professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, and a member of the Simons Observatory. She works on a wide range of topics in theoretical cosmology and astroparticle physics, including her quest to identify the dark matter and dark energy that permeate the universe. She wrote The Cosmic Cocktail: Th...2023-11-0852 min
Zipcode ZeroThe Unraveling Covid Consensus with Dr. Justin Kinney and Dr. Yanna LambrinidouJustin B. Kinney is an Associate Professor in the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 2008, is a co-author on >40 journal articles, and serves as project leader on two National Institutes of Health research grants. His lab has developed widely-used research methods, including methods that are now used to understand the effects of mutations present in variants of SARS-CoV-2.Twitter: @jbkinneyYanna Lambrinidou, PhD is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia...2023-08-051h 09
The Cartesian CafeBoaz Barak | Cryptography: The Art of Mathematical SecrecyBoaz Barak is a professor of computer science at Harvard University, having previously been a principal researcher at Microsoft Research and a professor at Princeton University. His research interests span many areas of theoretical computer science including cryptography, computational complexity, and the foundations of machine learning. Boaz serves on the scientific advisory boards for Quanta Magazine and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing and he was selected for Foreign Policy magazine’s list of 100 leading global thinkers for 2014.
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Cryptography is about maintaining the privacy and security of communication. In th...2023-08-022h 33
Into the Impossible With Brian KeatingSETI and Beyond: A discussion with Brian Keating, Paul Davies, Jim Benford and Mat Kaplan - ReplayThis brain trust of SETI experts was hosted in February of 2020, back when live, in-studio conversations happened, and discussions of alien artifacts and UAPs was fringe science. The discussion includes James Benford's strategy for finding ETI artifacts and a proposition for both passive and active observations by optical and radio listening, radar imaging and launching probes. A debate on the implications of our own technosignatures. And what if we find nothing? A profound result: suggesting that, perhaps, no ET intelligence has yet come to look at Earth, or perhaps other civilizations are simply not as curious as we, good...2023-01-1544 min
Your Favorite Stories, Now in Your Ears - Full AudiobookAlgorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI Audiobook by Josh SimonsListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 649663
Title: Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI
Author: Josh Simons
Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:23:51
Language: English
Release date: 01-10-23
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Public Policy, Philosophy
Summary:
This audiobook narrated by Teri Schnaubelt explains how to put democracy at the heart of AI governance
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping our world. Police forces use them to decide where to send police officers, judges to decide whom to release on bail, welfare agencies to decide which children...2023-01-1010h 23
New Books in Chinese StudiesSteven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that...2022-12-1658 min
New Books in Eastern European StudiesSteven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that...2022-12-1658 min
New Books in Latin American StudiesSteven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that...2022-12-1658 min
New Books in Central Asian StudiesSteven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that...2022-12-1658 min
New Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesSteven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that...2022-12-1658 min
NBN Book of the DaySteven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that...2022-12-1658 min
Princeton UP Ideas PodcastSteven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that...2022-12-1658 min
New Books in World AffairsSteven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that...2022-12-1658 min
New Books in African StudiesSteven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that...2022-12-1658 min
Value Investing with LegendsAshvin Chhabra - The Aspirational InvestorHow do you create a portfolio strategy that takes into account both safety and the pursuit of your aspirational goals? That’s what today’s guest, Ashvin Chhabra, set out to answer with the Wealth Allocation Framework. Ashvin is President and Chief Investment Officer of Euclidean Capital, a New York-based family office for James H. Simons & Marilyn H. Simons. The Simons Foundation is dedicated to advancing research in mathematics and the basic sciences and is currently one of America's largest private funders in those areas. Prior to his current position, Ashvin was Chief Investment Officer for M...2022-06-1757 min
Country Club Road church of Christ PodcastUnder the Mighty Hand of GodSeries: Gospel Meeting - Princeton SimonsService: Gospel MeetingType: SermonSpeaker: Princeton Simons2022-05-2628 minCountry Club Road church of Christ PodcastFellowship Geometrically SpeakingSeries: Gospel Meeting - Princeton SimonsService: Gospel MeetingType: SermonSpeaker: Princeton Simons2022-05-2549 minCountry Club Road church of Christ PodcastOld-Timey 3-Point SermonSeries: Gospel Meeting - Princeton SimonsService: Gospel MeetingType: SermonSpeaker: Princeton Simons2022-05-2435 minCountry Club Road church of Christ PodcastLet's Start At The BeginningSeries: Gospel Meeting - Princeton SimonsService: Sun AMType: SermonSpeaker: Princeton Simons2022-05-2336 minCountry Club Road church of Christ PodcastSimplicitySeries: Gospel Meeting - Princeton SimonsService: Sun PMType: SermonSpeaker: Princeton Simons2022-05-2347 minCountry Club Road church of Christ PodcastObvious DifferencesSeries: Gospel Meeting - Princeton SimonsService: Sun AMType: SermonSpeaker: Princeton Simons2022-05-2239 min
Into the Impossible With Brian KeatingEve Vavagiakis: Inspiring The Next GenerationDr. Vavagiakis is a postdoctoral associate in the Physics Department at Cornell University. She work on four collaborations: ACT, CCAT-prime, CMB-S4, and the Simons Observatory.
www.simonsobservatory.org
https://act.princeton.edu
https://ccatobservatory.org
https://cmb-s4.org
Eve got her PhD at Cornell University in 2021, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Provost Diversity Fellow on instrumentation and analysis for cosmology and astrophysics.She designed Mod-Cam, a first light instrument for the CCAT Observatory‘s Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST). And is currently leading the development of Mod-Cam for first lig...2022-03-2256 min
ArtribuneLoris Cecchini e Giliola Staffilani - Contemporaneamente a cura di Mariantonietta FirmaniIn questo audio il prezioso incontro con Loris Cecchini artista e Gigliola Staffilani matematica.L’intervista con Loris Cecchini e Gigliola Staffilani è nel progetto Contemporaneamente a cura di Mariantonietta Firmani, il podcast pensato per Artribune. In Contemporaneamente podcast trovate incontri tematici con autorevoli interpreti del contemporaneo tra arte e scienza, letteratura, storia, filosofia, architettura, cinema e molto altro. Per approfondire questioni auliche ma anche cogenti e futuribili. Dialoghi straniati per accedere a nuove letture e possibili consapevolezze dei meccanismi correnti: tra locale e globale, tra individuo e società, tra pensiero maschile e pensiero femminile, per costruire una visione ampi...2022-01-231h 13
Policy PunchlineGregory Zuckerman: A Shot to Save the WorldGregory Zuckerman is a nonfiction author and special writer at The Wall Street Journal. Before joining the Journal, Zuckerman was managing editor of Mergers and Acquisitions Reports, a trade publication of Investment Dealers’ Digest, and the New York Post as a media reporter.
At the Journal, Zuckerman is an investigative reporter covering business and investing topics. He is a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism. He regularly appears on CNBC, Fox News, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Television, and more. Zuckerman’s works include The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quan...2022-01-0343 min
Into the Impossible With Brian KeatingGraham Farmelo: The Universe Speaks In NumbersGraham Farmelo is an award-winning biographer and science writer. Based in London, he is a Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge and a regular visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He was a lecturer in physics at the Open University, 1977-1990. Briefly the youngest tenured academic in the UK. Quickly specialized as a teacher, chaired the team that produced the Science Foundation Course in the late 1980s and conceived its inter-disciplinary science course ‘Science Matters’.Farmelo is author of 'The Universe Speaks in Numbers', published in May 2019. It explores the relationship between mathematics and the search for...2021-12-071h 13
Into the Impossible With Brian KeatingJo Dunkley: This Is Our UniverseJo Dunkley is a Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University.Her research is in cosmology, studying the origins and evolution of the Universe. Her major projects are the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Simons Observatory. She's also a member of the Rubin Observatory's Dark Energy Science Collaboration.Professor Dunkley has been awarded the Maxwell Medal, the Rosalind Franklin award, and the New Horizons prize for her work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, and she shared the Gruber Prize and the Breakthrough Prize with the WMAP team.In her thrilling new guid...2021-07-2057 min
Into the Impossible With Brian KeatingNobel Prize Winner Frank Wilczek: Fundamentals — What Are The 10 Keys To Reality? (#109)Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics. Win a FREE copy of his newest book Fundamentals: enter this giveaway – https://kingsumo.com/g/n7xeaa/win-a-copy-of-frank-wilczeks-fundamentals-10-keys-to-reality Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology, and the physics of materials. His current research focus includes Axions, Anyons, and Time Crystals, concepts in physics which he invented –each of which has become a major focus of worldwide research. In recent years Frank has become fascinated with prospects for expanding perception through tech...2021-01-131h 40
Into the Impossible With Brian KeatingNobel Prize Winner Rainer Weiss: Feeling Spacetime Shudder: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Nobel Prizes! (#105)MIT Physics Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss won a 1/2 share of The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 For his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. He was born in Berlin, where his father was a doctor and psychoanalyst and his mother an actress. His father was of Jewish descent, and the family fled Nazism to the United States.After schooling in New York, Weiss studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his doctor’s degree in 1962. After a couple of years at Tufts University and Princeton University, he returned to MIT, wh...2020-12-291h 54
Policy PunchlineJim Simons and the Quant Revolution: The Man Who Solved the Market"Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history." Since 1988, Renaissance Technologies' flagship Medallion hedge fund founded by Simons has generated average annual returns of 66 percent, racking up trading profits of more than $100 billion. No one in the investment world comes close. Warren Buffett, George Soros, Peter Lynch, Steve Cohen, and Ray Dalio all fall short of Simons.
How did Jim Simons achieve this feat? Was it that easy for a math researcher at Princeton turned professor at Stony Brook to eventually become a legendary quant investor? In recently published bestseller "The Man Who Solved the Market," W...2020-05-1558 min
Policy PunchlineJim Simons and the Quant Revolution: The Man Who Solved the Market"Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history." Since 1988, Renaissance Technologies' flagship Medallion hedge fund founded by Simons has generated average annual returns of 66 percent, racking up trading profits of more than $100 billion. No one in the investment world comes close. Warren Buffett, George Soros, Peter Lynch, Steve Cohen, and Ray Dalio all fall short of Simons. How did Jim Simons achieve this feat? Was it that easy for a math researcher at Princeton turned professor at Stony Brook to eventually become a legendary quant investor? In recently published bestseller "The Man Who Solved...2020-05-1558 min
People Behind the Science Podcast Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers486: Theoretical Physicist and Author Discovering Novel Forms of Matter and Improving our Understanding of the Universe - Dr. Paul SteinhardtDr. Paul Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Professor in the Department of Physics, Professor in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Sciences. In addition, Paul is author of the popular science book Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang and the recently released book The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter. Paul is a theoretical physicist whose areas of study range from the nature of particles to the origins of the universe. He uses the known laws of nature to unravel some of...2019-01-2844 minPeople Behind the Science Podcast Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers075: Theoretical Physicist Shining Brilliantly with Her Work on Potential Nanomaterials for Solar Cells - Dr. Birgit KaufmannDr. Birgit Kaufmann is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Mathematics and Physics at Purdue University. Her visiting appointments include the Physics Department of Princeton University. She received her Masters and PhD from Bonn University in Germany and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Southern California and at Bonn University. She also has served as a visiting faculty member at Oklahoma State University and the University of Connecticut before joining the faculty at Purdue. Birgit has been honored with awards for excellence in both research and teaching, including a National Science Foundation Career...2014-06-2024 min
Moduli SpacesS-duality and mirror symmetry in Chern-Simons theoryDimofte, T (Princeton)
Thursday 14 April 2011, 10:00-11:002011-04-181h 05