在纽约时报上看到了这篇文章。本来写了几句准备发在格志上，忽然发现李淼老师的blog上已经有了报道，所以就不再多说什么了。下面是链接

纽约时报文章
李淼教授的文章

本来我也准备去旁听北京的弦论大会，可惜由于这边工作缠身所以无法前往目睹大师们风范。

还是忍不住提两句，Dennis Overbye文笔真是既能煽动公众心目中对科学已有的浪漫主义情怀又不失幽默感，不愧是NYT的科学编辑，哈哈

Dr. Gross, who has a well-known fondness of cigars, was smoking one under a giant drawing of Mao backstage after his own talk on Monday at the Great Hall when an official came in and said nobody had done that since Deng Xiaoping, China’s former paramount leader who died in 1997.

But, Dr. Gross related with a smile, “He said, ‘You’re allowed.’ ”