Strings and Branes: The present paradigm for gauge interactions and cosmology

22 May 2006, 08:00 → 3 Jun 2006, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Cargese

This school will consist of introductory and advanced lectures as well as seminars by participants on the following topics:

Non-perturbative string and M-theory, Holography, Black hole entropy, Cosmology, String phenomenology, String field theory, Topological Field Theory, Tachyon condensation, D-branes on curved spaces, Non-commutative field theories.

Speakers will include :

• I. Antoniadis (CERN),
• N. Arkani-hamed (Harvard),
• M. Berkooz (Weizmann),
• A. Connes (IHES),
• A. Dabholkar (TATA Institute),
• B. de Wit (Utrecht),
• G. Gabadadze (NYU),
• J. Harvey (Chicago),
• S. Kachru (Stanford),
• W. Lerche (CERN),
• O. Lunin (IAS Princeton),
• N. Nekrasov* (IHES),
• A. Uranga (CERN),
• U. Seljak (ICTP),
• A. Strominger (Harvard),
• H. Verlinde (Princeton)

For detailled informations and registration connect to the web site of the conference at http://string.lpthe.jussieu.fr/cargese/