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SUMMARY:The Shape Of Everything - George Smith
DTSTART:20200210T190000Z
DTEND:20200210T200000Z
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CONTACT:Robert Asher
DESCRIPTION:String Theory is our best attempt at producing a theory of qua
 ntum gravity\, but it is plagued with unsolved problems. One of these prob
 lems is that strings are only really happy in ten or eleven dimensions\, w
 ildly different to the four that we appear to experience. Even more worryi
 ng is that we don’t really know for certain what shape these ten or elev
 en dimensions are\, apart from the fact six or seven of them have to be ve
 ry small. In this lecture we go on a tour of the weird shapes which are ca
 ndidates for these hidden dimensions\, introducing as we go the mathematic
 al language researchers use to talk about these shapes which are\, for the
  most part\, poorly understood. This talk will be accessible to those of a
 ll levels of mathematical knowledge\, and I hope to include something for 
 everyone.
LOCATION:Leslie Stephen Room\, Trinity Hall
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