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The 30th Solvay Conference: Gravitational Waves, Ten Years On
I just returned from Brussels, where I had the privilege of taking part in the 30th Solvay Conference on Physics, devoted to “Gravitational Waves: From Cosmology to Black Holes”. It…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…