{"id":142,"date":"2005-01-27T14:46:15","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T18:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=142"},"modified":"2005-01-27T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T18:46:15","slug":"oxford-twistor-string-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Twistor String Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <A href=\"http:\/\/www.maths.ox.ac.uk\/~lmason\/Tws\/programme.html\">transparencies<\/A> from the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.maths.ox.ac.uk\/~lmason\/Tws\/\">conference<\/A> on twistor string theory held two weeks ago at Oxford are now available on-line. <\/p>\n<p>Quite a few of the talks deal with the technical  details of computing amplitudes.  For the motivation from phenomenological particle theory, see the talk by <A href=\"http:\/\/www.maths.ox.ac.uk\/~lmason\/Tws\/Bern.pdf\">Zvi Bern<\/A>.   As for the motivation and present state of the whole idea of relating QCD to a string theory in twistor space, the only person who really seems to have much to say about this is Witten himself.  His transparencies are in three parts: <A href=\"http:\/\/www.maths.ox.ac.uk\/~lmason\/Tws\/Witten1a.pdf\">part 1a<\/A> and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.maths.ox.ac.uk\/~lmason\/Tws\/Witten1b.pdf\">part 1b<\/A> from his first talk and then a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.maths.ox.ac.uk\/~lmason\/Tws\/Witten2.pdf\">second talk<\/A> in which he explains what the problems with the whole idea are and some ideas he&#8217;s been thinking about using to try and get around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transparencies from the conference on twistor string theory held two weeks ago at Oxford are now available on-line. Quite a few of the talks deal with the technical details of computing amplitudes. For the motivation from phenomenological particle theory, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=142\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}