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Friday Jan. 5 |
Saturday Jan. 6 |
Sunday Jan. 7 |
Monday Jan. 8 |
Tuesday Jan. 9 |
Wednesday Jan. 10 |
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| 9:30-10:15 |
Welcome 9:45 Gopakumar |
Sen | Antoniadis | Gross | Witten | Harvey |
| 10:15-10:45 | Russo | Ghoshal | Kachru | Das | Narain | Kutasov |
| 10:45-11:30 | Tea | Tea | Tea | Tea | Tea | Tea |
| 11:30-12:00 | Horava | Hori | Ibanez | Ooguri | Giveon | Schwarz |
| 12:00-12:30 | Hull | Govindarajan | Silverstein | Kazakov | Green |
Summary (Schwarz) |
| 12:30-1:00 | Douglas | |||||
| 12:30-2:15 | Lunch | 1:00 Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 2:15-2:45 | Minwalla | Free | Taylor | Kitazawa | Peet |
Special Lecture Program
3:00 PM |
| 2:45-3:15 | Myers |
Majumder Suryanarayana |
Rey | Dorey | ||
| 3:15-3:45 | Trivedi | Gubser | Shatashvili | Klebanov | ||
| 3:45-4:30 | Tea | Tea | Tea | Tea | ||
| 4:30-5:00 | Kraus | Cvetic | Mandal | Schomerus | ||
| 5:00-5:30 | Zwiebach | Verlinde | Hawking | Bachas | ||
| Welcome Dinner 8:00
PM |
Cultural Program7:00 PM - 9:30 PM |
Oberoi Banquet 7:30 PM |
Ignatios Antoniadis: String Physics at Low Energies
Costas Bachas: D-branes in the SL(2,R) WZW Model
Mirjam Cvetic: Brane Resolution on Ricci-flat Metrics
Sumit Das: Bulk Couplings to Noncommutative Branes
Nick Dorey: Exact Results for N=1* SUSY Yang-Mills Theory and its String Dual
Michael Douglas: D-Branes on Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Debashis Ghoshal: Normalisation of Background Independent SFT Action
Amit Giveon: Superstrings on AdS3
Rajesh Gopakumar: Noncommutative Solitons (I)
Suresh Govindarajan: D-branes and Vector Bundles on Calabi-Yau Manifolds: the View from the Helix
Michael Green: Connections Between Large N Yang-Mills Theory and String Theory
David Gross: Non Commutative Gauge Theory
Steven Gubser: Phase Separation
Jeffrey Harvey: Aspects of D-branes as Noncommmutative Solitons
Stephen Hawking: AdS, CFT and Cosmology
Petr Horava: deSitter Entropy and String Theory
Kentaro Hori: Mirror Symmetry and its Applications
Christopher Hull: Strongly Coupled Gravity and Conformal Invariance
Luis Ibanez: Intersecting Braneworlds
Shamit Kachru: Tunneling-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
Vladimir Kazakov: Matrix Model of Two-dimensional Black Hole
Yoshihisa Kitazawa: Nonperturbative Investigation of Superstring through Matrix Models
Igor Klebanov: Supergravity Dual of a Cascading Confining Gauge Theory
Per Kraus: String Field Theory of the D-Dbar System
David Kutasov: Comments on the Thermodynamics of Little String Theory and Two Dimensional String Theory
Jaydeep Majumder: Non BPS D-Branes on a Calabi-Yau orbifold
Gautam Mandal: Matrix Model, Noncommutative Gauge Theory and Brane-antibrane Systems
Shiraz Minwalla: Noncommutative Solitons (II)
Robert Myers: Fuzzy Funnels: Nonabelian Brane Intersections
K.S. Narain: D5-D1 System in Theories with 16 Supercharges
Hirosi Ooguri: How Noncommutative Gauge Theories Couple to Gravity
Amanda Peet: More on Singularity Resolution
Soo-Jong Rey: Classical and Planar Limits of Noncommutative Vacua and Solitons
Jorge Russo: Free Energy and Critical Temperature in Eleven Dimensions
Volker Schomerus: Brane Dynamics in CFT Backgrounds
John Schwarz: Comments on Born-Infeld Theory
John Schwarz: Summary of the Meeting
Ashoke Sen: Lump Solutions in String Field Theory around the Tachyon Vacuum
Samson Shatashvili: On Field Theory of Open Strings, Tachyon Condensation and Closed Strings
Eva Silverstein: Multi-Brane Constructions and Time-Dependent Physics
Nemani Suryanarayana: Ramond-Ramond Couplings of Non-Commutative Branes
Washington Taylor: Gauge Invariance and Tachyon Condensation in Open String Field Theory
Sandip Trivedi: Magnetic Branes and Giant Gravitons
Herman Verlinde: Some challenges for string theory and holography
Edward Witten: Quantum Gravity in desitter space
Barton Zwiebach: Tachyon Models and String Field Theory around the Tachyon Vacuum
Complaints and suggestions can be mailed to Gautam Mandal (mandal@theory.tifr.res.in)