Since you asked, I should indeed say a few words about how things have been going since I left my previous position and moved to being faculty at the Santa Barbara Department of Physics. It's Simply Wonderful! (Well, that's really four I suppose, depending upon whether you count the contraction as one or two.) Really though, I've been having a great time. It is such a wonderful department with welcoming colleagues doing fantastic work in so many areas of physics. There's overall a real feelin...| Asymptotia
(A more technical post follows.) By the way, in both sets of talks that I mentioned in the previous post, early on I started talking about orthogonal polynomials , and how they generically satisfy a three-term recurrence relation (or recursion relation): Someone raised their hand and ask why it truncates … Click to continue reading this post →| Asymptotia
Well, that was my title for my seminar last Thursday at the KITP. My plan was to explain more the techniques behind some of the work I've been doing over the last few years, in particular the business of treating multicritical matrix models as building blocks for making more complicated theories of gravity. The seminar ended up being a bit scattered in places as I realised that I had to re-adjust my ambitions to match limitations of time, and so ended up improvising here and there to explain ...| Asymptotia
