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INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

ITP Teachers' Educational Forum on

String Theory:
Is it the Theory of Everything?
What Are the Building Blocks of the Universe?

Saturday, May 5, 2001

Coordinator: G. Horowitz

Slides will be posted online here too. Watch this space!

Time: Speaker: Title:
8:50 am Gary Horowitz (UCSB)
Daniel Hone (ITP)
Welcome to ITP & Conference[Audio]
9:00 am Brian Greene 
(Columbia)
The Elegant Universe: String Theory and the Quest for a Unified Theory
10:15 am Refreshment Break ITP Courtyard
10:45 am Joseph Polchinski 
(ITP)
From Atoms to Quarks to Strings[Audio]
12:00 Noon Lunch Break ITP Courtyard
1:30 pm Hirosi Ooguri 
(Caltech)
What String Theory Has Taught Us about Quantum Gravity and Unification of Forces[Audio]
2:45 pm Town Hall Meeting All speakers[Audio]
3:30 pm Refreshment Break ITP Courtyard
4:00 pm David Gross 
(ITP)
The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics[Audio]