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One of the central topics of the interaction between QFT and math is mirror symmetry for 2d theories. This theory has a more mysterious and exotic friend one dimension higher, sometimes called 3d mirror symmetry, which relates two 3-dimensional theories with N=4 supersymmetry. For roughly a decade, I struggled to understand this phenomenon without understanding what most of the words in the previous sentence meant. Eventually, I wised up and based on work of Braverman, Finkelberg, Nakajima, Dimofte,...

This conversation with Vandana Shiva, Diane Kahontakwas Longboat, and Sue Chiblow was moderated by Jodi Koberinski.

CLICK ON THE LINK for a recording of this presentation: Teaching Circle July 2020

"Our paths crossed in the summer of 2016, when the TEK Elders Group asked Kahontakwas to arrange a meeting with Vandana Shiva at the office of the Chiefs of Ontario.

This talking circle was an opportunity for three powerful women, all voices for ecological justice, to...

My at a special Re-Work event on how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are being used to understand and prepare for managing Forest Wildfires.

AI for Crisis Prediction & Management

Overview:

Ongoing colonialism and lack of self-determination for Indigenous peoples in the land known as Canada pose serious obstacles to confronting ecosystem disruption and extractivism, and to moving towards more sustainable paths for future generations, and improved relationships with all beings. With attention to Indigenist perspectives, and in the context of land use -- timber extraction in particular --  I critically analyze a) the literature at the nexus of Indigenous worldviews and western science-based settler epistemologies; and b) the literature on food...