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Strings and M-Theory: From Quantum Gravity to Quantum Geometry and Back
Colloquium| Speaker: | Petr Horava, UC Berkeley |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Mon, Dec 2 2002, 4:10PM |
Description
Recent successes and challenges of string theory are
highlighted, with an emphasis on how our attempts to answer the
pressing theoretical physics questions of the unified theory of all
interactions (including a quantum theory of gravity) inspire
the evolution of new mathematical concepts, and in turn get inspired
by new (and sometimes not so new) mathematics. While much of the
exciting progress in string theory has been achieved under the control
of supersymmetry, any future success depends on our ability to
understand string theory in the cosmological context, where
spacetime supersymmetry is absent or at least far from manifest.
There will be a dinner afterwards.