What is string theory anyway?
Well, now you can find out.
Joe Polchinski at UCSB just gave the Director's Blackboard Seminar at KITP, and as usual it is webcast and podcast.
Go be inspired.
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The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is currently holding a "Rapid Response Workshop" on Black Holes: Complementarity, Fuzz, or Fire?, August 19-30.
more random tidbits worth a peek, including a new Henri le Chat video...
Today's guest post is by Weizmann Institute physicist, Prof. Micha Berkooz.
The title of this post is a famous question (posed, for example, by Joe Polchinski) which is modeled after an even more famous question by Ken Wilson, "What is Quantum Field Theory?".
Well, that was awful.
Hearing the guy talk away and seeing the picture change every 10 seconds, or whatever - stress city. Unwatchable, for me anyway.
Shame, because I would have liked to see it.