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ORGANIZER:The Royal Institution of Great Britain
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DESCRIPTION:The leading candidate for an all-embracing theory of physics\, 
 one that would unify quantum mechanics and Einstein's general relativity an
 d describe all physical phenomena from quarks to the Big Bang\, is called â
 €˜M-theory’\, where M stands for magic\, mystery or membrane\, according 
 to taste. M-theory requires eleven spacetime dimensions (the maximum permit
 ted by supersymmetry of the elementary particles) and subsumes all five ten
 -dimensional superstring theories. Is M really the ‘final theory’? Mich
 ael Duff will critically discuss the evidence.
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\n*Michael Duff* gained h
 is PhD in theoretical physics in 1972 at Imperial College\, London\, under 
 Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam. After postdoctoral fellowships in Trieste\, Oxf
 ord\, King's College London\, Queen Mary College London and Brandeis\, he r
 eturned to Imperial College in 1979 on a Science Research Council Advanced 
 Fellowship and joined the faculty there in 1980. He took leave of absence t
 o visit the Theory Division in CERN\, first in 1982 and then again as a Sta
 ff Member from 1984 to 1987 when he became Senior Physicist. He has also he
 ld Visiting Professorships and Fellowships at the University of Texas\, Aus
 tin\; the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, the University of Kyot
 o and the Isaac Newton Institute\, University of Cambridge. He took up his 
 professorship at Texas A&M in 1988 and was appointed Distinguished Professo
 r in 1992. In September 1999 he moved to the University of Michigan\, where
  he was Oskar Klein Professor of Physics. In 2001\, he was elected first Di
 rector of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and was re-elected in
  2004 .In 2005 he returned once more to Imperial as Professor of Physics an
 d Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences. He was appointed Abdus Sal
 am Professor of Theoretical Physics in 2006.
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\nMichael Duff's interests 
 lie in unified theories of the elementary particles\, quantum gravity\, sup
 ergravity\, Kaluza-Klein theory\, superstrings\, supermembranes and M-theor
 y.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society\, a Fellow of the Insti
 tute of Physics\, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and Recipient 
 of the 2004 Meeting Gold Medal\, El Colegio Nacional\, Mexico.
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SUMMARY:The world in eleven dimensions
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