Humph. At Toronto, we had to settle for hearing Ed Witten, a guy who basically invented his own field and is the most cited physicist of the past twenty years. However, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo got a visit from … Brian Eno??!!!?!!!!
I have to find out if I know anybody who saw this talk …
(and I must thank DJ Martian, who, from across the pond in London, alerted me to a lecture that happened in my own backyard!)