Scientific Colloquium
3:30 p.m., Friday, February 28, 2014
Building 8 Auditorium - Please note the change of location for this talk
THE JOHN BAHCALL LECTURE


BRIAN GREENE
Columbia University
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"Where Do We Stand with String Theory?

This year marks three decades since the “first string theory revolution,” and so is a natural time to assess where the theory currently stands. After a brief review of string theory’s essential features, I’ll discuss the theory’s progress toward the long-held goal of providing a predictive and testable unified theory of matter and forces. 
About the speaker:

Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, and is widely recognized for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory, including the co-discoveries of mirror symmetry and topology change. His first book for general audiences, The Elegant Universe, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has sold more than a million copies worldwide. His more recent books, The Fabric of the Cosmos and The Hidden Reality, were both New York Times bestsellers and inspired the Washington Post to call him “the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today.”

Greene makes frequent media appearances on programs such as Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report and David Letterman. He has hosted two NOVA specials, based on The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, which were nominated for four Emmy Awards and won a George Foster Peabody Award. Professor Greene is co-director of Columbia’s Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics, and with producer Tracy Day, he is co-founder of the World Science Festival.


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