Princeton University Department of Physics Princeton University Curtis Callan - Research Description Program









Curtis G. Callan, Jr.
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics

Symposium in Celebration of His Sixtieth Birthday

S a t u r d a y    P r o g r a m

9:00 - 9:30
C o f f e e

9:30 - 10:00
Welcome Remarks
Dan Marlow, Chair of the Physics Department
Joseph Taylor, Dean of the Faculty
Shirley Tilghman, President of Princeton University

10:00 - 10:40
Edouard Brezin, CNRS
"A backward glance at Callan-Symanzik equations in statistical physics"

10:40 - 11:20
David Gross
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics
"The Callan-Gross Relation(ship)"

11:20 - 12:00
Stanislas Leibler, Rockefeller University
"Theoretical biology: a need for phenomenology with no strings attached?"



12:00 - 1:30
B r e a k


1:30 - 2:10
Leonard Susskind, Stanford University
"The Trouble With de Sitter Space"

2:10 - 2:50
Jeffrey Harvey, University of Chicago
"Branes and Anomalies"

2:50 - 3:30
Frank Wilczek, MIT
"Geometric Entropy and Entanglement at Quantum Phase Transitions"



3:30 - 4:00
B r e a k


4:00 - 4:40
Curtis Callan, Princeton University
"Fun With Transcription Factors: Baby Steps in Biology"

4:40 - 5:20
Joseph Polchinski, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics
"Strings and Partons"

5:20 - 6:00
Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study
"Threshold Corrections And Proton Decay In Models Derived From G2 Manifolds"

S u n d a y     P r o g r a m

9:00 - 9:20
C o f f e e

9:20 - 10:00
John Schwarz, Caltech
"String Field Theory in a Plane-Wave Background"

10:00 - 10:40
Andrew Strominger, Harvard University
"Exact Solution of a Boundary Conformal Field Theory"

10:40 - 11:20
Fred Gilman, Carnegie Mellon
"Particle Physics Then and Now"

11:20 - 12:00
James Peebles, Princeton University
``The origin of cosmic structure: from Callan's PhD thesis to the standard model.''

12:00 - 12:40
Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study
"Non-gaussian aspects of primordial fluctuations"