Strings (conference)

[1] Important topics in string theory have been introduced for the first time during these conferences.

It was inspired by the International Workshop on Strings, Composite Structures and Cosmology held in the same venue a year before.

[2] The conferences were not that promising at first and some scientists suggested to stop the annual meetings, however it gained popularity in the 1990s.

Edward Witten discussed the concept of M-theory, sparking the second superstring revolution.

[4] In Strings '96, Tom Banks, Willy Fischler, Stephen Shenker, and Leonard Susskind introduced matrix theory;[5] and during Strings '98, Jeffrey A. Harvey composed a song to celebrate Juan Maldacena recent discovery of AdS/CFT correspondence.