Pankaj Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.
Pankaj Sharma is also a Research Scientist.
Friday, June 3, 2022
The Langlands Program, Explained
Getting the universe to think; Exploring life's origins on "The Joy of Why"; Impossible-seeming surfaces confirmed; Hints at the early nervous system
The Langlands program provides a beautifully intricate set of connections between various areas of mathematics, pointing the way toward novel solutions for old problems.
Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe's complex physical behaviors.
How did life arise on Earth? Steven Strogatz speaks with the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Jack Szostak and Betül Kaçar, a paleogeneticist and astrobiologist, to explore our best understanding of how we all got here.
Do Look Up Scientists have designed a new algorithm to sift through telescope images for new asteroids, reports Kenneth Chang for The New York Times. Keeping track of asteroids is especially important in our current era. In 2019 Joshua Sokol wrote for Quanta about how studying lunar craters revealed that the last 300 million years have been particularly violent, with more frequent asteroid collisions.
Rapid Evolution A large-scale study of 19 different animal populations over more than a decade reveals that natural selection is happening 2 to 4 times faster than previously thought, reports Qamariya Nasrullah for Cosmos Magazine. Evolution can occur surprisingly quickly over short timescales, but sometimes these rapid short-term changes cancel out over the long run, as Carrie Arnold wrote for Quanta in 2017.
