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At the Fefferman conference
I am currently at Princeton for the conference “The power of Analysis” honouring Charlie Fefferman‘s 60th birthday. I myself gave a talk at this conference entitled “Recent progress on the Kakeya...
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Recent progress on the Kakeya conjecture
Below the fold is a version of my talk “Recent progress on the Kakeya conjecture” that I gave at the Fefferman conference. One of my favourite problems in mathematics is the Kakeya family of...
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Structure and randomness in the prime numbers
This week I am in Bremen, where the 50th International Mathematical Olympiad is being held. A number of former Olympians (Béla Bollobás, Tim Gowers, Laci Lovasz, Stas Smirnov, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz,...
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Mathematical research and the internet
I’ll be in Australia for the next month or so, giving my share of the Clay-Mahler lectures at various institutions in the country. My first lecture is next Monday at Melbourne University, entitled...
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The cosmic distance ladder
I am uploading another of my Clay-Mahler lectures here, namely my public talk on the cosmic distance ladder (4.3MB, PDF). These slides are based on my previous talks of the same name, but I have...
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Two more Clay-Mahler lectures
I am posting the last two talks in my Clay-Mahler lecture series here: “Structure and randomness in the prime numbers“. This public lecture is slightly updated from a previous talk of the same name...
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A speech for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Next month, I am scheduled to give a short speech (three to five minutes in length) at the annual induction ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston. This is a bit different...
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At the AustMS conference
This week I was in my home town of Adelaide, Australia, for the 2009 annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society. This was a fairly large meeting (almost 500 participants). One of the...
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The Cosmic Distance Ladder (version 4.1)
This week I once again gave some public lectures on the cosmic distance ladder in astronomy, once at Stanford and once at UCLA. The slides I used were similar to the “version 3.0” slides I used for...
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Some slides from Basel
I have just returned from Basel, Switzerland, on the occasion of the awarding of the 2019 Ostrowski prize to Assaf Naor. I was invited to give the laudatio for Assaf’s work, which I have uploaded...
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