Young researchers conference

[marcus]

five days at Perimeter, the week starting 4 december.
two cosmology sessions
two QG sessions
two string sessions
two on quantum information
one on quantum foundations

young researchers only. sounds like a good idea to me. what do you think?
Laurent Freidel is one of the organizers. I guess it will be largely postdocs and PhD students doing thesis

here is the schedule:
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Events/Young_Researchers_Conference/Schedule/

the list of participants has not been published, when it is available it will be here:

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Events/Young_Researchers_Conference/Confirmed_Participants/

It seems like a smart thing to put those topics together so it is not for example exclusively string (QG conferences normally invite string people to get some variety but it doesn't usually work the other way around---in this case the diversity is explicit, there isn't even a majority field)

 

[George Jones]

What does young mean?

This reminds me of something I read about in Thorne's book - a 1975 conference on black holes, organized by Bill Press, to which only people under the age of thirty were invited.

The conference was Bill's response to what he considered a provocation. There was another conference going on, to which none of us had been invited. But all the gray eminences were attending, so Bill decided to have a conference only for young people.