Category Archives: Strings 2XXX

Strings 2006

Posted on June 18, 2006 by woit

Strings 2006 is about to get underway in Beijing, at a hotel next to Tiananmen Square, with public talks by David Gross, Andy Strominger and Stephen Hawking. Jonathan Shock reports that an agreement was formally signed today creating the KITPC, … Continue reading →

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Panel Discussion Video

Posted on August 8, 2005 by woit

Video of the panel discussion at Toronto is now available, so one can hear some of the context of the comments that were reported in the recent New York Times article. As reported, the audience voted 4 or 5 to … Continue reading →

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New York Times on Toronto Panel Discussion

Posted on August 2, 2005 by woit

I didn’t have much luck when I tried here to find out exactly what had happened at the panel discussion in Toronto at Strings 2005 last month. One graduate student (Florian Greimer) commented on Jacques Distler’s weblog that he felt … Continue reading →

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Panel Discussion in Toronto

Posted on July 13, 2005 by woit
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Strings 2005

Posted on July 10, 2005 by woit

Strings 2005, the latest in a series of yearly huge string theory conferences, will be taking place this week in Toronto. This series began in 1997 in Amsterdam, and in recent years has attracted 445 participants to Cambridge in 2002, … Continue reading →

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Talks From Strings 2004

Posted on July 18, 2004 by woit

Transparencies from the talks at Strings 2004 in Paris are starting to appear on-line. You can see a listing of what is available so far here. None of the ones I’d be most interested in seeing (Dijkgraaf, Nekrasov, Moore, Witten) … Continue reading →

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