Today: ICTP Colloquium by Prof. Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University, on "Fundamental Lessons From String Theory"

[ICTP Director]

Dear All,

Kindly be reminded that today,*Wednesday 1 March 2017, the **ICTP 
Colloquium by Prof. Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University  on" Fundamental 
Lessons From String Theory"***will take place in** the Budinich Lecture 
Hall, LB, at 16:30 hrs.

Abstract: This talk by Cumrun Vafa reviews some of the lessons string 
theory has taught us about the fundamental laws of nature. Duality 
symmetries discovered in string theory play a key role.

Biosketch: Cumrun Vafa is a theoretical physicist whose primary area of 
research is string theory. He is the Donner Professor of Science in the 
Department of Physics at Harvard University. He won ICTP’s Dirac Medal 
in 2008 along with Juan Maldacena and Joseph Polchinski for fundamental 
contributions to superstring theory. In 2017, he received the 
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, together with Polchinski and 
Andrew Strominger, for transformative advances in quantum field theory, 
string theory, and quantum gravity. Vafa is a member of ICTP’s 
Scientific Council.

The full abstract of the talk is available at: 
http://indico.ictp.it/event/8143/

The Colloquium will be livestreamed: http://video.ictp.it/livestream

The poster is attached.

Light refreshments will be served after the lecture.

You are all very warmly invited to attend.

Best regards,

Fernando Quevedo