Southeastern regional
mathematical string theory meeting
This is the webpage for the southeastern regional mathematical string theory
meeting, held every six months (early April and early October), often at
Duke University but occasionally elsewhere.
Next meeting:
The fall 2018 meeting will tentatively be held on Saturday October 13
at James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, VA.
Speakers will include
Cynthia Keeler
(Arizona State),
Mykola Dedushenko (Caltech),
Po-Shen Hsin (Princeton),
Fedor Popov (Princeton),
plus TBA.
If you are interested in speaking, please contact
Eric Sharpe.
Tentative schedule:
- Friday Oct 12: optional dinnner at, tentatively,
Clementine Cafe (153 S Main St,
Harrisonburg, VA), time TBA. (If the restaurant's parking lot is full,
note that there is a
municipal parking deck
on the other side of the same block, and after 7 pm, no time limit.)
- Saturday Oct 13: TBA
Some group photos from the spring 2018 meeting are
here,
here,
here.
Some group photos from the fall 2017 meeting are
here,
here,
here.
Some group photos from the spring 2017 meeting are
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here.
Some group photos from the spring 2016 meeting are
here,
here,
here.
A group photo from the fall 2015 meeting is
here.
For visitors to the area:
- For those flying in, the closest airports are
Shenandoah Valley Regional (SHD)
(twenty minutes away, but taxis not always available) and
Charlottesville Albemarle (CHO)
(an hour away; no shuttle, and an Uber will cost roughly $70).
- A map of JMU's campus can be found
here
(pdf).
- Information on visitor parking can be found
here.
Briefly, on Saturdays, no permit should be needed, but visitors can
only park in Commuter and Resident lots.
The C10 lot on Carrier Drive is the closest such lot to the Physics and
Chemistry building.
- Hotels: A few hotels that are within walking distance of the
Physics and Chemistry building are
Quality Inn (1881 Evelyn Byrd Avenue),
Sleep Inn (1891 Evelyn Byrd Avenue),
Hotel Madison (710 S. Main St).
Funding:
We have (limited) funding available to reimburse students and postdocs,
both those speaking and those merely attending who,
because of distance travelled, need to spend
a night in a hotel, courtesy of NSF grant PHY-1643420.
IMPORTANT: If you wish to be reimbursed, see here
for the paperwork you will need to provide, and also let Eric Sharpe
know that you will wish to be reimbursed.
Previous regional meetings:
For information on previous meetings, see here.
Other upcoming meetings of interest:
A list of upcoming events in VA can be found
here.
Harrisonburg area attractions:
For those not acquainted with the area, there are a number of things
to see. In no particular order, a few include:
