The International Conference "Strings 2006" will be held from June 19 to 24 in Beijing. It will be jointly hosted by the CAS Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP), the CAS Morningside Center of Mathematics (MCM), and the CAS Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS).
About 50 leading figures in the fields of theoretical physics and mathematics will make presentations highlighting the recent advances on the subject. Prof. David Gross and Prof. Stephen W. Hawking will offer public lectures in the Great Hall of the People.
As an annual meeting series, the Strings Conference has been held in Cambridge, UK; Kyoto, Japan; Paris, France; and Toronto, Canada in recent years.
