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I am giving (another) seminar inward Heidelberg on Wed (April 25th), this fourth dimension virtually my upcoming book.

May 1st is a national vacation inward FRG (labor day) in addition to I’ll last off-grid due to solid unit of measurement affairs for about days.

May seventh to ninth I am inward Stockholm to larn yelled at (it’s complicated).

On May 26th I am inward Hay-on-Wye which is a hamlet someplace Great Britain that hosts an termination called How The Light Gets In at which I am supposed to fighting how “the pursuit of beauty drive[s] the evils that concur dorsum a meliorate society.” I wouldn’t larn equally far equally calling grand unification an evil, in addition to hence delight don’t approximate me past times the tagline.

I accept too been asked to part this ikon below. Hope it makes to a greater extent than feel to y'all than to me.


On May 28th I am giving a public lecture inward Dublin at the Irish Quantum Foundations conference.

In summary this agency May volition last a real tiresome calendar month on this blog.
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