Stringamathing

I've got a grant proposal to review, and a progress report to write for one of my own grants, so you're getting short, link-y physics blogging:

- The Strings 2006 conference has ended, with the participants apparently deciding to keep up with this "string theory" thing (maybe you've heard of it?) for a little while longer. Talk slides from many of the speakers are available here. Of course, if you can understand them, you probably already knew that, and if you didn't know that, you probably won't get much from the slides, but there you go.

- The Wall Street Journal piece talking about Peter Woit's book and string theory in general is provided outside their annoying registration wall by the Northwest Florida Daily News. I thought it was fairly unremarkable, but a lot of people have remarked on it, so I thought I should publicize the link to the full text, for those who aren't interested in paying the WSJ for it.

- Speaking of that article, David Appell has posted some reasonable thoughts about it (though he kind of flubs some math in the middle).

And there's your string theory update for the week.