{"id":233,"date":"2005-08-06T12:19:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T16:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=233"},"modified":"2005-08-18T22:06:28","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T02:06:28","slug":"strings-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Strings on the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitp.ucsb.edu\">KITP in Santa Barbara<\/a>, a few steps from the beach, is running a semester long program on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitp.ucsb.edu\/activities\/strings05\/?id=310\">Mathematical Structures in String Theory<\/a> that started this past week.  Some of the talks are already <a href=\"http:\/\/online.itp.ucsb.edu\/online\/strings05\/\">on-line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the other coast, as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/insti.physics.sunysb.edu\/itp\/conf\/simonswork3\/talks.html\">Simons Workshop<\/a> at Stony Brook, Witten will be giving a talk at Smith Point beach on &#8220;Gauge theory and the Geometric Langlands Program&#8221;.  This sounds like it might be very interesting and mercifully off the main topic of the workshop, which seems to be <a href=\" http:\/\/insti.physics.sunysb.edu\/itp\/conf\/simonswork3\/talks\/Vafa1.pdf\">swamps<\/a> not beaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KITP in Santa Barbara, a few steps from the beach, is running a semester long program on Mathematical Structures in String Theory that started this past week. Some of the talks are already on-line. On the other coast, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=233\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","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\/233","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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}