I think I came to Columbia just to attend this lecture series

misc, personal

Columbia’s Casa Italiana, as part of the Festival della Matematica in Rome, will be hosting what may be the most mind-blowingly awesome series of lectures every conceived. The program:

Tuesday, March 10th

11 a.m. at the Italian Academy
The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics, Lecture by the Nobel Laureate in Physics Sheldon Glashow

2.00 p.m. at the Italian Academy
The (mis)behaviour of financial markets, Lecture by Benoît Mandelbrot

5.00 p.m. at the Italian Cultural Institute
Press conference

6.00 p.m. at the Italian Cultural Institute
Imaginary interview with Galileo Galilei, Reading by Claudio Bartocci and Piergiorgio Odifreddi

Wednesday, March 11th

9.00 a.m. at the Italian Academy
Statistical thinking is hard, causal thinking is easy, Lecture by the Nobel Laureate for Economics Daniel Kahneman

11.00 a.m. at the Italian Academy
The early days of game theory in Princeton, Lecture-interview with the Nobel Laureate for Economics John Nash and Harold Kuhn

2.00 p.m. at the Italian Academy
The elegant mathematical universe, Lecture-interview with Brian Greene

6.00 p.m. at the Italian Cultural Institute
Movie projection
Flatland. A journey of many dimensions: The movie edition
Director Jeffrey Travis, animator Dano Johnson
Edwin A. Abbott with Thomas Banchoff and the Filmmakers of Flatland

And the link.

My existence has just been validated.