Programme of Talks

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Vijay Balasubramanian	Where do dualities come from?
David Berenstein	Geometric realizations of runaway behavior and moduli stabilization
Raphael Bousso	From light-sheets to Bekenstein's bound
Jan de Boer	A holographic reduction of Minkowski space
Curt Callan	Slightly beyond the pp-wave limit: Curvature corrections to string theory in the AdS5xS5 background
Michael Duff	Hidden spacetime symmetries and generalised holonomy in M-theory
Sergio Ferrara	Partial superHiggs, no-scale supergravity and fluxes
Willy Fischler	A fascinating fluid
Dan Freedman	Developments in the BMN correspondence
Steven Giddings	Challenges for holography
Steve Gubser	Double trace operators and renormalization group flows
Stephen Hawking	The information paradox
Gary Horowitz	A possible instability of compact extra dimensions
Igor Klebanov	AdS/CFT beyond supergravity
Massimo Porrati	How to give a mass to the graviton in AdS space with and without holography
Kostas Skenderis	Open strings in plane-wave backgrounds
John Schwarz	Type IIB superstring theory in a plane-wave background
Andy Strominger	S-branes in string theory
Lenny Susskind	What about de Sitter space?
Herman Verlinde	Strings from tachyons: The c=1 matrix reloaded
Nick Warner	Constructing supersymmetric flows from algebraic Killing spinors