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Just in case you're to be in Florence...

The Birth of String Theory, Florence, May 18 - 19, 2007
Filippo Colomo
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

The 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.

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 cosmology
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)

String 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.

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.

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"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."