The spirit of this meeting lies in between a conference and a summer school. The main speakers will give some introductory lectures, followed by a seminar on their current research. Furthermore, junior researchers will have the opportunity to give some selected short talks. The aim is to provide an informal setting which encourages discussions among the participants.

 

C. Bachas - AdS Branes and CFT Domain Walls.

T. Banks - The Holographic Principle, M-Theory and Cosmology.

N. Berkovits - Covariant Quantization of the Superstring.

J. Harvey - Solitons in Noncommutative Gauge Theory.

V. Schomerus - Open Strings and Brane Noncommutative Geometry.

I. Klebanov - Supersymmetric Duality Cascade and Chiral Symmetry Breaking from Supergravity.

D. Brecher - AdS/CFT in the Infinite Momentum Frame.

J. Edelstein - Geometric Transitions and Large N Dualities.

J. Figueroa-O'Farrill - Maximal Supersymmetry in Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity.

J. Gutowski - M-theory Compactifications on Holonomy G₂ Manifolds.

C. Herdeiro - Flux Branes and the Dielectric Effect in String Theory.

N. Kim - Supergravity and the Large N Limit of Pure N=2 Super Yang-Mills.

L. Rastelli - Vacuum String Field Theory and the Sliver.

M. Schnabl - Exact Solitons on Noncommutative Tori.

S. Stanciu - Boundaries, B-Fields and D-Branes.

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