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23rd Solvay Conference is 1-3 December 2005 in Brussels and the official title is The Quantum Structure of Space and Time
The unofficial theme could be "Look who didn't get invited!".
Who might have something new to say about the emergence of 4D spacetime? (Loll maybe? Nope, not there. landscapers instead.)
Who might legitimately have something to say about quantum cosmology? (Bojowald there? Nope. stringy-vacua-inflation-landscapers instead.)
The organizers were short-sighted. In the long run it won't help to shut the new approaches out.
My wild guess is that there will be a moment in the proceedings when someone who understand the situation, say Hermann Nicolai, or Andy Strominger, or Gerard 't Hooft, will wonder why some people are not present. Like, are we doing science? Or is this a prestige pie-eating party where the important thing is how we slice the prestige pie?
Here's the Scientific Program for December 1-3
http://tena4.vub.ac.be/23Solvay/qsst/18-11-2005ScientificProgramme.pdf
The Public Program for December 4 is something else.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/conferences/2005/solvay/pdf/progr_en.pdf
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/conferences/2005/solvay/index_en.htm
The unofficial theme could be "Look who didn't get invited!".
Who might have something new to say about the emergence of 4D spacetime? (Loll maybe? Nope, not there. landscapers instead.)
Who might legitimately have something to say about quantum cosmology? (Bojowald there? Nope. stringy-vacua-inflation-landscapers instead.)
The organizers were short-sighted. In the long run it won't help to shut the new approaches out.
Code:
Opening (Henneaux, Gross)
Day 1 Morning: History (Henneaux chair, Galison)
- Quantum Mechanics (Gross, Hartle, 't Hooft)
Day 1 Afternoon: Singularities (Horowitz chair, Gibbons, Ashtekar,
- Damour, Shenker, Silverstein, Turok)
Day 2 Morning: Mathematical Structures (Ooguri chair, Dijkgraaf, Atiyah,
- Douglas, Kallosh, Nekrasov, Nicolai, Strominger, Yau)
Day 3 Morning: Emergent Spacetime (Harvey chair, Seiberg, Banks,
- Klebanov, Maldacena, Polyakov)
Day 3 Afternoon: Cosmology (Shenker chair, Polchinski, Banks, Guth,
- Kachru, Kallosh, Linde, Steinhardt, Weinberg)
Concluding remarks (Gross)
My wild guess is that there will be a moment in the proceedings when someone who understand the situation, say Hermann Nicolai, or Andy Strominger, or Gerard 't Hooft, will wonder why some people are not present. Like, are we doing science? Or is this a prestige pie-eating party where the important thing is how we slice the prestige pie?
Here's the Scientific Program for December 1-3
http://tena4.vub.ac.be/23Solvay/qsst/18-11-2005ScientificProgramme.pdf
The Public Program for December 4 is something else.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/conferences/2005/solvay/pdf/progr_en.pdf
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/conferences/2005/solvay/index_en.htm
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