{"id":4112,"date":"2011-11-03T20:11:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T00:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2011-11-03T20:11:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T00:11:50","slug":"solvay-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4112","title":{"rendered":"Solvay Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Solvay Centenary conference now finished for over a week, some information has been posted about it on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solvayinstitutes.be\/\">Solvay Institute web-site<\/a>, where you can see a group picture of the attendees on the main page.  Lisa Randall&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/lirarandall\/status\/126766144152539137\">comment<\/a> comparing the gender balance to that at the first conference is actually rather restrained, given that the fraction of women (2.9%, 2 out of 69, Randall and Silverstein) is smaller now than back in 1911 (4.1%, 1 out of 24, Sk\u0142odowska-Curie).  Oddly, only women working in extra dimensions seem to have made the cut.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule of talks is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solvayinstitutes.be\/events\/quantum_world\/2011-10-12-Conseil2011_Detailed.pdf\">here<\/a>.  Perhaps someday we&#8217;ll see proceedings of the conference and learn what was in the talks and discussions.  For now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solvayinstitutes.be\/events\/quantum_world\/Quantum_World.html\">this page<\/a> has links to some outlines of the rapporteur talks. There were two separate sessions related to quantum computing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.solvayinstitutes.be\/events\/quantum_world\/Outline\/Session%202.pdf\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solvayinstitutes.be\/events\/quantum_world\/Outline\/Session%203.pdf\">here<\/a>), as well as sessions on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solvayinstitutes.be\/events\/quantum_world\/Outline\/Session%204.pdf\">condensed matter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solvayinstitutes.be\/events\/quantum_world\/Outline\/Session%205.pdf\">particle physics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solvayinstitutes.be\/events\/quantum_world\/Outline\/Session%206.pdf\">quantum gravity and string theory<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The string theory talks seem to have just been about possible applications to condensed matter and to quantum gravity, rather than about using string theory to get a unified theory.  Witten attended, but appears not to have given a talk of any kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Solvay Centenary conference now finished for over a week, some information has been posted about it on the Solvay Institute web-site, where you can see a group picture of the attendees on the main page. 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