Session L4: Onsager, Heineman and Metropolis Prize Session

2:30 PM–4:54 PM, Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204

Sponsoring Unit: APS
Chair: Peter Young, University of California, Santa Cruz

Abstract ID: BAPS.2010.MAR.L4.2

Abstract: L4.00002 : Lars Onsager Prize Talk: String Theory and Statistical Physics

3:06 PM–3:42 PM

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Author:

  Stephen Shenker
    (Stanford University)

We will give an overview of some of the connections that have been found between concepts in string theory and in statistical physics.

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