M-Theory - a 'theory of everything' confronts the real world Centre for Mathematical Sciences Wilberforce Road 8.00pm, Wednesday 22 August, 2001

M-Theory - a 'theory of everything' confronts the real world
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Wilberforce Road
8.00pm, Wednesday 22 August, 2001

This Wednesday the University of Cambridge's Centre for Mathematical Sciences will host a public lecture on M-theory.

The theory is the latest response to one of the fundamental challenges of modern theoretical physics - how to unify Einstein's theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics and particle physics. Recent developments have led to a framework known as M-theory in which an 11-dimensional 'theory of everything' is conjectured to be the fundamental unified theory.

The lecture will be given by Burt Ovrut, Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania and a world-renowned expert in M-theory, superstring and supergravity. He will discuss why M-theory and its precursor superstring theory require extra hidden dimensions. In these theories the four-dimensional world of our everyday experience is a surface or brane, to which we are confined, embedded in an 11-dimensional space. The Big Bang from which our universe originates is conjectured to have risen from the collision of such branes.

The lecture is part of a week-long conference, M-Theory cosmology, being held at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. The conference has been made possible through the generous support of Dennis Avery, a graduate of Trinity Hall and a loyal friend of the University.

For free tickets please phone 01223 765000 or 01223 337900 or visit:
Reception
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Wilberforce Road;
or
Reception
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Silver Street


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