STRINGS '95
Future Perspectives in String Theory
March 13 - 18, 1995

PROGRAM

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

• 8:30-9:30
  • Registration
• 9:30-10:00
  • Opening remarks:
    L. Armstrong (USC Provost)
• 10:00-11:00
  • L. Ibanez: Superstrings as unified theories
• Coffee
• 11:30-12:30
  • M. Dine: Coping with strongly coupled string theory
  • M. Green: Discrete symmetries of superstrings
• Lunch
• 2:00-3:00
  • S. Chaudhuri: Real fermionization for unified model building
  • J. Distler: Progress in (0,2) string compactifications
• 3:00-4:00
  • N. Berkovits: New techniques for superstrings
  • M. Cvetic: Abelian Kaluza-Klein black holes and their embedding in string theory
• Tea
• 4:30-5:30
  • A. Strominger: Unitary rules for black hole evaporation
• 6:00-8:30
  • Reception in the Commons

• 9:00-10:00
  • E. Witten: Some problems of strong and weak coupling
• Coffee
• 10:30-11:30
  • N. Seiberg: Electric-magnetic duality in (supersymmetric) non-Abelian gauge theories
• 11:30-12:30
  • J. Schwarz: Nonperturbative string symmetries
• Conference photo
• Lunch
• 2:00-3:00
  • A. Sen: Strong-weak coupling duality in string theory
• 3:00-4:00
  • A. Giveon: S-duality in N=4 Yang-Mills theories with general gauge groups
  • W. Lerche: Effective actions for SU(n) N=2 super-Yang Mills theories
• Tea
• 4:30-5:00
  • A. Ceresole: Duality transformations in locally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories
• 5:00-5:30
  • P. Argyres: N=2 superYang-Mills and Riemann surfaces
  • F. Quevedo: Gaugino condensation: duality beyond global symmetries
  • E. Sokatchev: Supersymmetry and the ADHM construction of instantons
• 5:30-6:30
  • J. Harvey: Aspects of S-duality
  • C. Hull: Duality symmetries of superstrings

• 9:00-10:00
  • H. Ooguri: Loop amplitudes of N=2 string
• Coffee
• 10:30-11:30
  • B. Zwiebach: Dilatons and string background independence
• 11:30-12:30
  • J.-L. Gervais: Topological models beyond the c=1 barrier
  • P. van Nieuwenhuizen: Regularization in quantum mechanical supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models
• Lunch
• 2:00-3:00
  • G. Zuckerman: Algebraic and geometric structures in string backgrounds
  • J. McCarthy: BV algebra structure of the W-string cohomology
• 3:00-4:00
  • M. Halpern: Irrational conformal field theory
  • C. Pope: Embedding hierarchies in string theory
• Tea
• 4:30-5:00
  • O. Lechtenfeld: On BRST cohomology of N=2 strings
  • R. Myers: Supertraces in string theory
  • B. Ovrut: R**2 and C**2 terms in Z(N) orbifold compactifications
• 5:00-5:30
  • M. Bershadsky: Relation between 4d Yang-Mills theory and 2d sigma models

• 9:00-10:00
  • I. Bars: Aspects of model building in string theory in curved spacetime - a ghost-free SL(2,R) string
• Coffee
• 10:30-11:30
  • A. Tseytlin: Exact solutions in string theory
• 11:30-12:30
  • C. Kounnas: Strings in curved space-time and applications in particle physics and quantum gravity
  • H. De Vega: Classical and quantum strings in cosmological spacetimes and their back reaction
• Lunch
• 2:00-3:00
  • H. Verlinde: Some CFT applications in 4D gauge theory
• 3:00-3:30
  • E. D'Hoker: General effective actions, cohomology and anomalies
• Tea
• 4:00-5:00
  • E. Kiritsis: One-loop calculation of coupling constants in superstring theory
  • D. Luest: Duality symmetries and threshold effects in N=2 heterotic string compactifications
• 7:00
  • Banquet in Town and Gown
    Speaker: L. Susskind

• 9:00-10:00
  • D. Gross: The master field for large N theories
• Coffee
• 10:30-11:30
  • M. Douglas: Large N in d>2
• 11:30-12:30
  • J. Polchinski: Black hole complementarity and string theory
• Lunch
• 2:00-3:00
  • A. Polychronakos: Probabilities and path-integral representation of exclusion statistics
  • N. Warner: Refining the elliptic genus
• 3:00-4:00
  • 12 short talks
• Tea
• 4:30-5:30
  • R. Plesser: Mirror symmetry as duality in Abelian gauge theory
  • B. Greene: Phases of mirror symmetry

• 9:00-10:00
  • G. Moore: 4d avatars of 2d CFT
• Coffee
• 10:30-11:30
  • L. Susskind: The world as a hologram
• 11:30-12:30
  • D. Gross: Conference summary