Steve Giddings

Recent conferences and workshops:

West Coast LHC Theory Network Meeting, at UCSB

Quantum Gravity: from UV to IR, hosted by the CERN Theory Group.

A popular article on possibilities at the Large Hadron Collider:

"What will the Large Hadron Collider reveal?" (published in the LA Times)

Recent highlights:

The problems of quantum gravity: from high-energy scattering to black holes and cosmology, Perimeter Institute Colloquium & Talk at Conference, "IR issues and loops in de Sitter space"

"Black holes in the cosmos, in the lab, and in fundamental physics" CERN Academic training lectures: Lecture 1; Lecture 2; Lecture 3

Quantum black holes at the LHC?

Santa Barbara Gravity Workshop

Publications

Research interests:

• Quantum black holes at the LHC?
  

Events organized:

• Quantum Gravity: from UV to IR
• West Coast LHC Theory Network Meeting
• Santa Barbara Gravity Workshop
  
• 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:

• The problems of quantum gravity: from high-energy scattering to black holes and cosmology, Perimeter Institute Colloquium & Talk at Conference, "IR issues and loops in de Sitter space"
• Black holes in the cosmos, in the lab, and in fundamental physics: Lecture 1; Lecture 2; Lecture 3
• 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.

Some courses:

• 229A

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