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Martin Idel: the fixed-point sets of positive trace-preserving maps on...
Kasia Macieszczak is visiting the ITP at Leibniz Universität Hannover (where I arrived last month, and where I'll be based for the next 7 months or so), and gave a talk on metastable manifolds of...
View ArticleHannover wine roundup I: mostly French wines from Jacques'
Now that I'm living in Hannover, Germany for a while, I'm observing that the quality of life here is very high, especially so in the areas for which this blog is named. I've already posted a little on...
View ArticleAnthony Aguirre is looking for postdoc at Santa Cruz in Physics of the Observer
Anthony Aguirre points out that UC Santa Cruz is advertising for postdocs in the "Physics of the Observer" program; and although review of applications began in December with a Dec. 15 deadline "for...
View ArticleDeutsch, Popper, Gelman and Shalizi, with a side of Mayo, on Bayesian ideas,...
A few years back, when I reviewed David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity for Physics Today (see also my short note on the review at this blog), I ended up spending a fair amount of time revisiting...
View ArticleBach, Johannes-Passion, Bachchor und Orchester Hannover, Marktkirche
I attended a performance of J.S. Bach's Passion according to St. John (Johannespassion) by the Hannover Bach Choir and Orchestra last night at the Marktkirche in the central market square of...
View ArticleEd Dolan on the case for a universal basic income
Ed Dolan suggests that claims that social safety net programs on average don't disincentivize work much may depend on the current relatively limited coverage of such programs (especially compared to...
View ArticleLocal Scene: Leaves and Trees, Hannover
Great to be somewhere that has a local music scene. Hannover indie-folk band Leaves and Trees released their first EP on April 23rd. The release show/party at LUX was full by the time we arrived...
View ArticleOrion Weiss with the Salzburg Marionettes: Schumann, Debussy
Not sure why this has been sitting around as a draft, but I'm belatedly posting it now; good music is always relevant: Really glad I finally decided to go see and hear the Salzburg Marionette Theatre...
View ArticleSchumann: Papillons, Blumenstück, Novellette; Novaes, Arrau, Sokolov
Since my last post involved some Schumann piano pieces, I thought I should link to some performances of them: Papillons, Op. 2, Guiomar Novaes, piano: Blumenstück, Opus 19 in Db major, Claudio Arrau,...
View ArticleHarmaleighs at Fuller Lodge, Pretty Picture, Dirty Brush
Great concert by indie folk/pop duo The Harmaleighs (Haley Grant, guitar & vocals; Kaylee Jasperson, bass & vocals) Halast night (Feb. 19) at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos, accompanied by Mike (?)...
View ArticleEnsembl Mitdvest: Muczynski, Bach, Birtwistle, and Dvorak at Kastelskirken,...
At Kastelskirken in the Kastellet fort in Copenhagen today (19.11.2017) a wind quintet drawn from the Danish Ensembl MidtVest played Robert Muczynski's woodwind quintet, opus 45; J. S. Bach's Partita...
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De Guise-Langlois & Morgenstern Trio in Messiaen's Quartet for the End of...
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018, at the Leo Rich theater in the Tucson Convention Center, I heard two of the best chamber music performances I've ever heard. As part of the 25th Tucson Winter Chamber...
View ArticleThe greatness of Cecil Taylor (1929-2018)
Cecil Taylor, one of the most important musicians of our time, and one of the pioneers of what is roughly called "free" or avant-garde jazz, died on April 5, 2018, at 89 years old. Ben Ratliff has...
View ArticleWhat's wrong---and what's right---about quantum parallelism as an explanation...
I couldn't help crying "Nooo!!!!" on Twitter to the following statement by Pierre Pariente, "Strategic Analyst chez L’Atelier BNP Paribas," from a 2015 article "Quantum Computing Set to Revolutionize...
View ArticleMargaret Bonds: pianist composer, and teacher
Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) was a pianist, composer, and teacher of music. I probably first became aware of her as a teenager, through some of her arrangements of spirituals for "classical" voice,...
View ArticleJoe Jackson
Joe Jackson was initially associated with the ``New Wave" of pop/rock music of the late 1970s and early 1980s (Blondie, the B52s, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, etc…) that followed quickly...
View ArticleStrongly Symmetric Spectral Convex Sets are Jordan Algebra State Spaces
The title of this post is also the title of my most recent paper on the arXiv, from 2019, with Joachim Hilgert of the University of Paderborn. The published version is titled Spectral Properties of...
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