[Posted on december 31, 2016.]
Some items spotted recently:
- the next séminaire Bourbaki on saturday january 14 will feature an all-star list of speakers, and should be live on youtube
- the list of the top 10 journals ranked by MCQ for 2015 on mathscinet had Cambridge Journal of Mathematics in 4th place, impressive for a journal launched only in 2013
- the famous paper of has been listed in the ‘to appear’ section of Annals of Mathematics
- Alain Connes will give the first lecture of his annual course at Collège de France next week
- Ivan Fesenko will give next month a Colloquium style talk in Cambridge on Shinichi Mochizuki’s IUT Theory
- major blogs have recently advertised the fine AMS Open Math Notes website, and the reader may like to know that another great site is the math section of Cours En Ligne (hosted by CCSD), which contains a fair amount of notes in english beyond the ones in french
- two new programs are starting at MSRI next month: Analytic Number Theory lead by Terence Tao and Harmonic Analysis lead by Michael Christ and Michael Lacey, while there will be a graduate summer school in june/july on Soergel Bimodules lead by Benjamin Elias and Geordie Williamson and another one in july/august on Automorphic Forms and the Langlands Program lead by Kevin Buzzard
- Jean-Yves Girard has recently released a new paper which is the third part of a series on transcendental syntax (at the boundary between logic and philosopy), and he also published a less technical book on this topic last september
- some New Year wishes from the President of the EMS (containing a shocking piece of information: “numerous colleagues registered for the Berlin congress but did not then pay, causing a financial headache for the organizers“)
- just a few days left to register a candidacy to become CNRS researcher
- a new website for biographies of mathematicians (as announced in Notices of the AMS)
Amphithéâtre, by Patrick Janicek on flickr