Leonard Susskind / Daniel Freedman 80+ Birthday Symposium and Celebration

**Due to space constraints this event is by invitation only​**

Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch professor of Theoretical physics at Stanford University. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 

Daniel Z. Freedman is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a visiting professor at Stanford University. He is famous for his pioneering work on supergravity for which he received the  Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the 2006 Dannie Heineman Prize of the APS, and 1993 Dirac Medal. He has contributed to numerous areas of high energy physics, from the AdS/CFT duality to his proposal for the experimentally confirmed elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. He is a member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Program Schedule, Day 1:

Program Schedule, Day 2:

Hotels:

We have reserved blocks of rooms at the following local hotels. Please book as soon as possible to benefit from discounted rates.

Creekside Inn 

Stanford Guest House

Group code: FREE22

Book via link above or by calling 650-926-2800
 

Hotel Parmani 

Group code: SPC. Guests may book directly on our website using the code for the symposium. 

Cardinal Hotel: This is the direct link to book discounted rate 

Other local hotels: 

Zen Hotel

Parking:

Parking on Stanford campus requires a permit on the Friday. Permits can be purchased here.

Navigating Stanford campus:

Your phone is likely  to tell you everything you need to know to get around Stanford’s campus, but the following site collects a number of useful maps if you’d like to consult them.