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Marni D. Sheppeard

Friday, August 28, 2009

Twistor Buzz

Lectures 4A and 4B are compulsory viewing. In the most deliciously outrageous display of presumption I have ever witnessed, Arkani-Hamed introduces twistor QFT to a group of beginning graduate students who have never even taken a course in old fashioned QFT. Moreover, he carefully explains to them why Feynman diagrams are redundant and quantum gravity has a better way of doing things. Wow. If I tried that, I'd be lynched.

5 Comments:

Anonymous kneemo said...

Excellent talks. It's nice to see Nima enthusiastically discussing and extending material from Witten's Dec. 2003 twistor string paper. There are some deep mathematical structures at work here and multicategorical techniques seem highly applicable.

August 29, 2009 12:39 PM  
Blogger Kea said...

Hi, kneemo. Yes, it cannot be long until good post-stringy theorists realise the potential of multicategories.

Meanwhile, I may have lined up a decent waitressing job in NZ for the summer, although they want to meet me first.

August 29, 2009 10:41 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

congrats kea :)

August 30, 2009 12:42 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ugh, sorry.
i feel really stupid :(
sarcasm is something i've always struggled with.
i see now that the notion of you waiting on tables is silly.
theres no way an emancipated woman such as yourself would willingly reinforce sexual stereotypes like that.

August 30, 2009 4:33 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

whoa, the comment i was replying to disappeared !

August 30, 2009 4:35 AM  

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