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One of the big experimental HEP conferences, the Lepton-Photon Symposium<\/A>, has just ended and many of the talks are on-line. This is the 22nd of these conferences which happen every two years. New data from the Tevatron about the top quark was discussed, and a paper<\/A> with the new top quark mass results<\/A> has been released.<\/p>\n

There’s a new web-site with news about the LHC<\/A>.<\/p>\n

Last month there was an Einstein Symposium<\/A> in Alexandria, and presentations<\/A> are on-line. They’re for the general public so pretty content-free, but it is interesting to see what Witten’s latest view of string theory is: “I’d like to believe — but of course I don’t know — that string theory is on the right track…” Michio Kaku begins his presentation with advertisements for his books, then tells the audience that testing string theory would require creating a “baby universe”, that “Mind of God = music resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace” and that the standard model is “supremely ugly” (which strikes me as something supremely stupid to say).<\/p>\n

If you can’t wait for next week’s Strings 2005<\/A> in Toronto, there’s a summer school on strings<\/A> going on at Perimeter, and a meeting in Crete<\/A> that just ended, along with many more string conferences to come. The one series of talks I won’t be able to make it to, but would love to hear would be Graeme Segal’s talks in Oporto<\/A> on 2d QFT.<\/p>\n

The DOE has just announced the award of seven new Outstanding Junior Investigator<\/A> grants in high-energy theory and experiment, one of which is going to Lubos Motl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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