Dirac Medallist- Edward Witten

The interview took place in June 2023, when Witten was at ICTP for the Huddle on Entanglement, Black Holes and Spacetime, during which he gave a public talk entitled “What every physicist should know about string theory”.
01:14 Connection between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
03:06 First superstring revolution
05:02 First successes of string theory
06:46 Evolution of string theory and the strings revolutions
09:34 Duality
10:28 1995 Strings Conference
18:32 The scientific value of string theory
21:58 Edward Witten’s connections with ICTP
22:48 What brought Edward Witten to physics
23:28 ICTP’s mission to make knowledge globally available
24:28 Science cooperation and ICTP’s role in the SESAME project
26:00 Edward Witten’s contributions to mathematics and the “unreasonable effectiveness of physics to mathematics”
29:58 The problem with understanding pure gauge theories
32:54 Michael Atiyah’s influence on Witten
44:50 The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics on physics