| Saturday, 9 September | |
Late afternoon / early evening |
Registration at the Hotel reception and ESF desk |
| 19.30 | Get-together-drinks |
| 21.00 | Dinner |
| -- | |
| Sunday, 10 September | |
10.30 |
Welcome and Conference Opening: - Conference Chairman - EC Representative |
| Chairman:M. Floratos
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| 10.45 | Constantin
Bachas (EL, ENS, France) Branes in curved geometries |
| 11.45 | Christopher
Hull (UK, Queen Mary College, UK) Strongly Coupled Gravity and Duality |
| 12.45 | Coffee break |
| 13.00 | Costas
Kounnas (CY, ENS, France) Non-perturbative string thermodynamics and cosmological implications |
| 14.30 | Lunch |
| 17.00 | Coffee break |
| -- | |
| Afternoon talks | |
| Chairman:B. Nilsson
| |
| 17.30 |
Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen
(NL, Stony Brook, USA)
Quantum corrections to the mass and central charge of susy kinks |
| 18.00 |
Ofer Aharony (IL, Rutgers, USA)
On Theories With Light Like Non-Commutativity |
| 18.30 |
Carlo Angelantonj
(I, ENS, France)
RG-Flow, Wilson Loops and Dilaton Tadpole |
| 19.00 |
Niels Obers
(NL,Utrecht, NL)
Exact Thresholds and Instanton Effects in d=3 String Theories |
| 19.30 |
Angel Uranga
(E,CERN, F)
From Branes at Singularities to Particle Physics |
| 20.30 | Dinner |
| -- | |
| Monday, 11 September | |
| Chairman:L. Alvarez-Gaume
| |
09.00 |
Ignatios Antoniadis (F, CERN, France) D-brane physics at low-energies |
| 10.00 | Augusto
Sagnotti (I, University of Rome, Italy) Brane susy and brane susy breaking |
| 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.20 | Arkady
Tseytlin (UK, Ohio State University, USA) Aspects of string quantization in AdS space |
| 12.20 | Kellogg
Stelle (US, Imperial College of London, UK) Tensions and Turtles in RS/HW geometries |
| 13.30 | Lunch |
| 17.00 | Coffee break |
| -- | |
| Afternoon talks | |
| Chairman:M. Asorey
| |
| 17.15 |
Lee Smolin
(US, Penn State, USA)
The Cubic Matrix Model as a Background Independent Formulation of M-Theory |
| 17.45 |
Ulf Lindström (S, Stockholm,Sweden)
A-D-E Series and Seiberg Witten Curves |
| 18.15 |
Bryce De Witt
(US,Texas University, USA)
The Non-Abelian Chiral Anomaly by Zeta-Function Regularization |
| 18.45 | Break |
| 19.00 |
Jan De Boer
(NL,Leyden & Utrecht, NL)
The Non-Abelian Born-Infeld Action in Curved Backgrounds |
| 19.30 |
Miguel Vasquez-Mozo
(E, Utrecht, DK)
Winding States in Thermal Non-Commutative Field Theories |
| 20.30 | Dinner |
| -- | |
| -- | |
| Tuesday, 12 September | |
| Chairman:J. P. Derendinger
| |
09.00 |
Erik Verlinde (NL, University of Princeton, USA) CFT and FRW |
| 10.00 | Amit Giveon
(IL, Jerusalem University, Israel) D-Branes in the Background of NS5-Branes |
| 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.20 | Dieter
Lüst (D, Humboldt University, Germany) Supersymmetry breaking in string theory by H- and F-flux |
| 12.20 |
Eva
Silverstein (US, SLAC, USA) Extended Objects from Warped Compactifications in M theory |
| 13.30 | Lunch |
| Afternoon | Excursion |
| 20.30 | Dinner |
| -- | |
| Wednesday, 13 September | |
| Chairman:T. Tomaras
| |
09.00 |
Michael Green (UK, University of Cambridge, UK ) Instantons at small and large N |
| 10.00 | Gary Gibbons
(UK, University of Cambridge, UK) Born Infeld Theory: Causality and Strong Coupling |
| 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.20 | Antoine Van
Proeyen (B, K.U. Leuven, Belgium) Supersymmetric theory with domain walls |
| 12.20 | Finn Larsen
(DK, University of Chicago, USA) Branes and Strings as Non-Commutative Solitons (Choose seascape from ghostview in order to see transparencies properly) |
| 13.30 | Lunch |
| 17.00 | Coffee break |
| -- | |
| Afternoon talks | |
| Chairman:S. Sciuto
| |
| 17.15 |
Konstantinos Sfetsos
(EL, University of Neuchatel, CH)
Supersymmetry and finite temperature strings |
| 17.45 |
Eric Bergshoeff (NL, Groningen, NL)
Non-Abelian Born-Infeld and Kappa-Symmetry |
| 18.15 |
Ralph Blumenhagen
(D,Humbolt University, D)
Asymetric Orbifolds, Non-Commutative Geometry and Type-I String Vacua |
| 18.45 | Break |
| 19.00 |
Alex Kehagias
(EL, Athens Technical University, EL)
Mirage Cosmology |
| 19.30 |
Sergei Cherkis
(R,UCLA, USA)
Periodic solitons |
| 20.30 | Conference Dinner |
| -- | |
| Thursday, 14 September | |
| Chairman:C. De Witt-Morette
| |
09.00 |
Lisa Randall (US, Princeton University, USA) Localized Quasigravity |
| 10.00 | Herman
Nicolai (D, Max-Planck-Institut, Goln, Germany) Conformal and Quasiconformal Realizations of Exceptional Lie Groups |
| 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.20 | Andreas Karch
(D, MIT, USA) On the localization of Gravity |
| 12.20 | Fabio Zwirner
(I, University of Padova, I) Weak scale supersymmetry breaking |
| 12.50 | Panagiota Kanti
(EL, University of Minnesota, USA) Generalized cosmological brane models |
| 13.30 | Lunch |
| 17.00 | Coffee break |
| -- | |
| Afternoon talks | |
| Chairman:I. Arefeva
| |
| 17.15 |
Marios Petropoulos
(EL ,Ecole Polytechnique, F)
D-branes on ADS3 and BTZ backgrounds |
| 17.45 |
Amine Bouziana Hammou (DZ, Humbolt University, D)
D1-D5 systems in theories with sixteen supercharges |
| 18.15 | Break |
| 18.30 |
Boris Pioline
(F,Harvard & Paris VI, F)
Irrational Non-commutative Gauge theories |
| 19.00 |
Konstantin Savvidy
(EL, Niels Bohr Institute, DK)
The discrete spectrum of D0-brane bound state |
| 20.30 | Dinner |
| -- | |
| Friday, 15 September | |
Departure after breakfast |
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