Posted on 05/14/2007 5:32:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...More than 100 scientists from across the globe are descending on McMaster University today... just 5 per cent of the universe is made up of matter we've long known about -- atoms, light, etc. The rest is mysterious dark matter (25 per cent) and the more recently discovered dark energy (70 per cent)... "For the first time in the history of man, it's possible to figure out the total energy in the universe, and the big news is that atoms are at most 5 per cent of what's out there," says Cliff Burgess, Mac professor of physics and astronomy, and conference organizer. "Dark energy is harder to understand. I'm not sure how much detail you want. I could go on all weekend," jokes Burgess, whose website describes him as "an unabashed high-energy particle theorist whose wild oats were sown working in string theory." ...The crowd has a few natural divides: observers versus theorists, cosmologists versus particle physicists. It'll be in Mac's Michael DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery. One highlight is what promises to be a funny public talk at 8 p.m. tomorrow by the University of Chicago's Rocky Kolb on Mysteries of the Dark Universe... His website, quirky like you'd expect of a particle physics giant, features Rocky the flying squirrel and his Top 10 Questions about the Universe... "You go to these conferences ... and watching people go by, you try to spot the physicist. Nine times out of 10, you can," Burgess says. "A lot of bad hair."
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Materialists are in deep-doo-doo these days.
The Birth of String Theory, Florence, May 18 - 19, 2007The Interdisciplinary Seminar on Philosophy and Physics is pleased to announce the two-day meeting on "The Birth of String Theory" taking place in Florence, Italy, on May 18-19, 2007. This event will be in connection with the program: "String and M theory approaches to particle physics and cosmology" to be held at the Galileo Galilei Institute of Theoretical Physics, Arcetri, Florence, from March 19, to June 22, 2007.
Filippo Colomo
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
In the two-day meeting, we shall go back to the birth of String Theory and recollect and discuss the ideas used at that time that led to the discovery and construction of the theory. We shall cover the period from the pre-history to the early developments, corresponding to the years 1967-1981 approximately.
The event is aimed at telling and reviving a remarkable series of inventions in theoretical physics that gradually revealed the powerful features of the theory. Contributions will be at the level of physics colloquia, and address a broad public of colleagues and students in physics and history of physics.
...Due to space limitations, the number of participants is limited to 100. Participants are kindly requested to register by sending an email to Mrs Antonella Pagliai before May 14 2007. A confirmation of the registration will be sent back.String and M theory approaches to particle physics and cosmologyString theory is the leading candidate for unifying quantum gravity with particle physics. The recent successes of string theory include detailed connections with the physics of black holes, with strongly coupled gauge theories, and with modern mathematics. In particular, dualities between gauge theories and strings have produced new insights into colour confinement and chiral symmetry breaking; they also provide new approaches to non-perturbative definitions of string theory.
J. Gomis (University of Barcelona),
I. Klebanov (Princeton University),
A. Lerda (Università del Piemonte Orientale,
Alessandria),
H. Ooguri (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena),
A. Van Proeyen (University of Leuven)
One of the main objectives of string theory is to make quantitative connections between string theory and experimental physics on microscopic and macroscopic scales, including particle physics in and beyond the Standard Model, and cosmological models of the early universe.
During the workshop we plan to have regular seminars and discussions by the participants. During the first and the last weeks of the workshop there will also be two 3-day conferences open to a wider audience.
Knot just a little, either. ;’)
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