LECTURES
J. de Boer - String Theory and Nonperturbative Gauge Theory. G. Gibbons - Uniqueness and Stability of Black Hole and Brane Metrics. S. Minwalla - Gravitational Phase Transitions in Yang-Mills. L. Rastelli - General Lessons for Open/Closed Duality from Non-Critical Strings. A. Sagnotti - Higher Spin Gauge Fields. C. Teitelboim - Cosmological Constant Decay and Black Holes.
SEMINARS
Transparencies and slide shows require Adobe Acrobat Reader.G. L. Cardoso - Dynamical Generation of Background Fluxes. M. Headrick - The Large N Limit of C/Z_N and Supergravity. Y. Lozano - Giant Gravitons, Fuzzy Cylinders and Fuzzy CP^2. D. Martelli - M-Theory, Sasaki-Einstein Metrics, and New N=1 SCFTs. C. Pope - Gauged Six-Dimensional Chiral Supergravity and its Origins from String Theory. C. Pope - Kerr-de Sitter Black Holes in Higher Dimensions. M. Spradlin - Yang-Mills Amplitudes from String Theory in Twistor Space 2. A. Volovich - Yang-Mills Amplitudes from String Theory in Twistor Space 1.