TODAY: ICTP Colloquium on "A Brief History of Branes" by Paul Townsend - BLH at 16:30

[Infopoint]

_Thursday 4 April at 16:30: _

Joe Polchinski Memorial Lecture: "A Brief History of Branes" by Paul 
Townsend from the University of Cambridge, Department of Applied 
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, UK.

The lecture takes place within the Spring School on Superstring Theory 
and Related Topics. See: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8649/

Joe Polchinski was a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical 
Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His great 
contributions to theoretical physics, including the discovery of 
D-branes –– a type of membrane in string theory –– have led to advances 
in the understanding of string theory and quantum gravity. In 2008, he 
shared ICTP's Dirac Medal with Juan Maldacena and Cumrun Vafa for their 
fundamental contributions to superstring theory.

For more information and the abstract of the talk, please see 
http://indico.ictp.it/event/8902/

The talk will be livestreamed from the ICTP website.

Light refreshment will be served after the talk.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Info Point
on behalf of the Office of the Director, ICTP
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