Banquet speechs by Joe Polchinski

Last Update: 07/04/2018

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The banquet speech by Joe Polchinski at KIAS-YITP joint workshop 2013. The duration is about 7 minutes.

He talks about

• Toast at Strings 2013
• Difference between Japanese, Korean, & American students
• How he missed the dicovery of the ABJM theory
• His first visit to Kyoto at 1995 & his discovery of the D-branes
• 60th birthday of YITP & of his own

After-dinner speech by Joe Polchinski at Joefest. The duration is about 7 minutes. He gave a talk after several official speeches and free talks. The quality of the recoding is not very good.

At the free-talk time, Vijay Balasubramanian said something like "Joe is the only person I knows who actually fell asleep during his own talk." (It happened during Trieste Spring School 1995 according to Vijay.) Joe started from the response part of which is missing in this recording.

Bananas sent to Joe from his students. (See Simeon Hellerman's talk here for the reason.)

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