String 2006
A conference on string theory was held in the past weeks in Beijing.
(I know some readers of this blog are interested in string theory.)
Not Even Wrong: Slides from the talks at Strings 2006 are now available.
Steven Hawking is always a good read. And Edward Witten is always interesting.
Unreleated to the topic of the conference but equally interesting is the recent announcement of the full proof of the Poincaré Conjecture by Cao Huaidong and Zhu Xiping. It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems for which the Clay Mathematics Institute is offering a $1,000,000 prize for a correct solution.