Steve Giddings

Research interests:

• Summary  of research interests
• Top Questions in M-Theory
• What is M-Theory? (online lecture)
  

Events organized:

• 2004 BIRS Workshop: ``New horizons in string cosmology"
• 2003 BIRS Workshop: ``Recent developments in string theory"
• 2001 ITP Workshop: M-theory
• Avatars of M-Theory:  ITP Conference, 2001
• Strings '98
• 2000 Aspen Workshop "String Dualities And Their Applications"
   

Some online lectures:

• Black hole production at TeV energies?
• Branes, fluxes, moduli potentials, and the fate of four dimensions
• What is M-Theory?
• Introduction to strings, superstrings, and M-theory, from 1999 ITP Conference on black holes:  theory confronts reality.
• Effective theories and black hole production in warped compactifications, talk at ITP Santa Barbara, Nov. 2000
• Hierarchies from warped string compactifications, talk at ITP Santa Barbara, May 2001.

Press: features in which I've played some role:

• String theory on NPR's All things considered
• New York Times article: ``Physicists Strive to Build a Black Hole"
• New York Times article on Physicists and Mountains
• APS Physics Central  People in Physics profile
• ISI interview on black hole production
• Discover magazine article: ``Now Under Construction: a Black Hole Factory"
• New York Times article on Brane Worlds
• New York Times article on String/M Theory;   Clarification; Photo from print version
• New York Times article on Black Hole Information
• New York Times article on the Cosmological Constant and the Landscape of String Vacua
• New York Times article:   ``Back to Basics: How Did Space Get Its Dimensions?''
• New York Times article on Physics at the Planck Scale
• 93106 article: ``Miniature Black Holes May Open Window to Other Dimension''
• Santa Barbara News-Press article on Strings '98
• Article from 93106 (UCSB Faculty/Staff Newsletter)
• New York Times article "10 Physics Questions to Ponder for a Millennium or Two"

Misc:

String Theory online introduction (By my former student, J. Pierre)

Alpinism pages