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  • PhD position in gravitational-wave astroparticle physics

    PhD position in gravitational-wave astroparticle physics

    I am delighted to announce a new PhD position in my group at GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam, funded by the ERC Advanced Grant De Tenebris. The successful candidate will work…

  • The Industrialization of Mathematics

    The Industrialization of Mathematics

    OpenAI released an extraordinary quantity of mathematics this week: 722 manuscripts, grouped into 372 families of results, produced largely by an unreleased AI model that had been given roughly 4,000…

  • AI can help us publish less

    AI can help us publish less

    In a Comment published today in Nature Astronomy, I ask whether one of the best uses of AI in science may be to help us publish fewer, better papers. The…

  • Colloquia at Aachen / Zurich / Rome / Santa Fe / Harvard

    Colloquia at Aachen / Zurich / Rome / Santa Fe / Harvard

    Over the past two weeks I had the pleasure of giving a series of colloquia at RWTH Aachen, U. “La Sapienza” Rome, U. of Zurich, Santa Fe, and ITC Harvard,…

  • A visit to the Santa Fe Institute

    A visit to the Santa Fe Institute

    Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the Santa Fe Institute, where I was hosted by Melanie Mitchell, a SFI professor working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cognitive…