Celebrating Enrique Alvarez's 70th birthday

Celebrating Enrique Alvarez's 70th birthday

On Friday October 11, we at the IFT celebrated Enrique Alvarez's 70's birthday, among colleagues and friends. This included the impressive list of Enrique's PhD students along his career, in the picture.
There were several talks on topics close to Enrique's scientific career:

FROM QUANTUM GRAVITY TO STRING THEORY AND BACK

SPEAKERS:                                                                                                
    •    L. Alvarez-Gaumé (Simons Centre for Geometry and Physics)                
    •    D. Blas  (King's Collegue)                                                                  
    •    J. Garriga (U. Barcelona)                                                                  
    •    C. P Martín (U. Complutense)                                                              
 
ORGANIZERS: J.L.F. Barbón (IFT), M. Herrero-Valea (SISSA), Y. Lozano (U. Oviedo), T. Ortín (IFT)

More information:

https://workshops.ift.uam-csic.es/enriqued

https://projects.ift.uam-csic.es/Eday/

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