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http://www.lunarpedia.org/index.php?title=Helium This says helium 3 is worth $500k per ounce,geez to bad USA doesnt have rockets that can reach the moon and pick up trillions of dollars worth of helium 3. I hope trump makes America great again,I read USA cant even make an ice breaker because we sort of forgot how to do such things having exported those industries to other nations. We already have trillions in the Green River Shale oil area but once again the powers that be wont let us drill there and reap the rewards,the elderly that govern us are to aged to bend over and pick up money or reach up to the stars and take it from there.
 
bullmarket79 said:
http://www.lunarpedia.org/index.php?title=Helium This says helium 3 is worth $500k per ounce,geez to bad USA doesnt have rockets that can reach the moon and pick up trillions of dollars worth of helium 3. I hope trump makes America great again,I read USA cant even make an ice breaker because we sort of forgot how to do such things having exported those industries to other nations. We already have trillions in the Green River Shale oil area but once again the powers that be wont let us drill there and reap the rewards,the elderly that govern us are to aged to bend over and pick up money or reach up to the stars and take it from there.
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Douglas Robertson

Fellow emeritus, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
former Adjunct professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences
University of Colorado, Boulder


Title A Quantitative Information-Theoretic Approach to the Philosophy of Science

Abstract:

Using quantitative information-theoretic ideas I will argue that the computer revolution marks not only a new beginning of civilization but also a new beginning for both science and mathematics, all of which are information-limited. I will then argue that the computer revolution also marks a new beginning for philosophy. Modern quantitative information theory provides concepts and analytic tools that can make philosophy quantitative and more useful, much as Newton’s calculus made physics quantitative and more broadly applicable. Information theory converts Goedel’s celebrated Incompleteness Theorem from an extremely difficult proof into what Greg Chaitin calls “easy to prove and almost obvious.” Information theory provides insights into the concept of a “Theory of Everything” (TOE) in physics, emphasizing the question of whether a TOE can be created with a finite quantity of information or not. Finally I will examine the philosophical questions of consciousness and free will, both of which can be addressed as quantitative problems in information theory.

http://www.physics.northwestern.edu/events/regularly-scheduled-seminars/complex-systems.html
 
This is the speed chess version of math. You got fifteen minutes! Love it! Wish I could make it but probably can't.


EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT
Graduate Student Seminar
Title: Get to know you talks, day 2
Speaker: Sean Pohorence, Dylan Wilson, Paul VanKoughnett
Speaker Info:
Brief Description: Three 15 minute talks, each followed by 5 min Q&A.
Abstract:

Sean - A superstory about supersymmetry.
Dylan - Finite sets and homotopy theory.
Paul - Me am Superman: characteristic 0 and characteristic p.

Date: Friday, October 7, 2016
Time: 4:00pm
Where: Lunt 104
Contact Person: Sean Pohorence
Contact email:spoho@math.northwestern.edu
Contact Phone:
 
I hope very much I can attend.


EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT
Bellow Lecture Series
Title: Between characteristic zero and characteristic p
Speaker: Jacob Lurie
Speaker Info: Harvard University
Brief Description:
Abstract:

In classical algebraic geometry, there is often a stark difference between the behavior of fields of characteristic zero (such as the complex numbers) and fields of characteristic p (such as finite fields). For example, the equation x^p = 1 has p distinct solutions over the field of complex numbers, but only one solution over any field of characteristic p. In these talks, I will give an informal introduction to the theory of ring spectra. In this setting, one has "fields" (called Morava K-theories) which in some sense lie between characteristic zero and characteristic p. I'll then discuss some curious features of representation theory and algebraic geometry in these intermediate regimes.Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Time: 04:10pm
Where: Lunt 105
Contact Person: John Francis
Contact email:jnkf@northwestern.edu
Contact Phone:
 
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