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ANN ARBOR—There’s only a week left to sign up for “2001: A Spacetime Odyssey,” a major conference which will be held on the University of Michigan Central Campus on May 21-25.

This conference, organized by the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, will feature talks by two Nobel Prize winners and some two dozen other researchers of similar distinction. As part of the center’s mission to promote interdisciplinary research, the all-star list of invited speakers includes physicists astronomers, cosmologists, particle physicists, and mathematicians. The legendary Peter Higgs will make a rare public appearance, and Martinus Veltman, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics, will give a public lecture on the evening of
There will be receptions for all participants on the evenings of May 20 and May 21, a speakers’ dessert party on May 22, and a banquet on May 23.

2001: A Spacetime OdysseyMichigan Center for Theoretical Physics