{"id":55,"date":"2004-07-18T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=55"},"modified":"2012-07-28T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T19:13:29","slug":"talks-from-strings-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Talks From Strings 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transparencies from the talks at <a href=\"http:\/\/strings04.lpthe.jussieu.fr\">Strings 2004<\/a> in Paris are starting to appear on-line. You can see a listing of what is available so far <a href=\"http:\/\/strings04.lpthe.jussieu.fr\/talks\/\">here<\/a>. None of the ones I&#8217;d be most interested in seeing (Dijkgraaf, Nekrasov, Moore, Witten) have appeared yet.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/blog\/archives\/000048.html\">hot topic<\/a> of whether or not the landscape picture of string theory can predict whether supersymmetry will be seen at LHC energies, <a href=\"http:\/\/strings04.lpthe.jussieu.fr\/talks\/Douglas.pdf\">Douglas<\/a> first gives an argument that there will be low-energy supersymmetry, then another that there won&#8217;t. Recall that he kept adding and subtracting from his arXiv paper a sentence saying he thought there would be a solid argument by the time the LHC was operating in 2008. In Paris, he puts it this way:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I <i>start to think<\/i>  that <i>fairly<\/i> convincing predictions <i>could<\/i> come out of this approach in the next few years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>which contains enough qualifiers to cover any eventuality.<\/p>\n<p>Of the talks for the public, <a href=\"http:\/\/strings04.lpthe.jussieu.fr\/talks\/Veneziano.pdf\">Veneziano&#8217;s<\/a> was pretty much historical,  with a couple comments about cosmology,  <a href=\"http:\/\/strings04.lpthe.jussieu.fr\/talks\/Maldacena_public.pdf\">Maldacena&#8217;s<\/a> was mostly about black holes, and <a href=\"http:\/\/strings04.lpthe.jussieu.fr\/talks\/Schwarz.pdf\">John Schwarz&#8217;s<\/a> was remarkable mainly in that it completely ignored any developments of the last ten years.  None of these three breathed a word about the landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;d be most interested in seeing (Dijkgraaf, Nekrasov, Moore, Witten) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=55\">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_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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strings-2xxx"],"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\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}