[PhilPhys] Warsaw Spacetime Colloquium: Richard Dawid (21 January on Zoom)

[Antonio Vassallo]

(With apologies for cross-posting)

On Friday, 21 January, Richard Dawid (Stockholm University) will give a
talk titled "Final but Incomplete - What String Theory May Suggest for 21st
Century Physics" (abstract below).

The meeting will be online on Zoom (17:00-19:00 CET). If you have not
registered yet, you can do so here <https://forms.gle/qpb8vVjtrF4y2nZ76>.

The Colloquium is organized by the Philosophy of Physics Group
<https://ans.pw.edu.pl/Nauka/Zespoly-badawcze/Philosophy-of-Physics-Group>
at the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences, Warsaw University of
Technology. The program for the summer semester will be announced soon
<https://ans.pw.edu.pl/Nauka/Zespoly-badawcze/Philosophy-of-Physics-Group/Events/Warsaw-Spacetime-Colloquium-2021-2022-online>.
The videos of the previous meetings are available on YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM-1yNCyvJJC0KUgEqXTsFA38luoSiqXo>.

You can address any inquiry to antonio.vassallo at pw.edu.pl.

ABSTRACT
String theory has not come close to a complete formulation after half a
century of intense research. On the other hand, a number of features of the
theory suggest that the theory, once completed, may be a final theory. It
is argued in this talk that those two conspicuous characteristics of string
physics are related to each other. The property that links them together is
the fact that string theory has no free parameters at a fundamental level.
The talk will discuss what finality could mean under the given
circumstances and will look at possible implications of this situation for
the long term prospects of theory building in fundamental physics.
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