PROGRAM

*Lecturers*	*Title*
O. Aharony	The non-AdS/non-CFT correspondence, or three different paths to QCD
I. Antoniadis	Physics of low scale string models
R. Bousso	The holographic principle
J. Harvey	A toy model for the M5-brane
I. Klebanov	AdS correspondence and QCD scaling
D. Friedan	A tentative theory of large distance physics
S. Minwalla	String Dynamics on PP-waves from Yang Mills Theory
E. Martinec	Defects, Decay, and Dissipated States
N. Nekrasov	Non-commutative gauge theories aind their applications to ordinary gauge theories
E. Rabinovici	Strings in cosmological backgrounds
A. Sagnotti	Model building in open string theory
A. Strominger	Quantum Gravity and de Sitter Space
E. Verlinde	Topics in gauge theory/string theory duality
B. Zwiebach	Open String Star Algebra and Rolling Tachyons

*Participant talks*	*Title*
A. Konechny	Witten's open string product and Moyal product: the Ghost sector*
A. Shomer	Multitrace deformations and AdS/CFT
M. Fabinger	Singular and smooth time dependent orbifolds
A. Volovich	String interactions and pp-waves
P. Henri-Labordere	Borcherds symmetries in M-theory
M. Schnabl	Wedges, star products and derivations in OSFT
A. Neitzke	A mysterious duality (M-theory and del Pezzo surfaces)
I. Runkel	Open strings and 3d topological field theory
M. Schulz	Fluxes and SUSY changing bubbles
M. Vonk	On the partition function of the NS5-brane
J. Wacker	Electroweak symmetry breaking without SUSY
U. Gran	Three classes of type IIB 7-branes from 9-dimensional domain walls

SCHEDULE

Tue 25 June	*Arrival*
	9h30 -11h	11h30 - 13h	17h00 - 18h00
Wed 26 June	Martinec part 1	Zwiebach part 1	Verlinde part 1
Thu 27 June	Nekrasov part 1	Martinec part 2	Zwiebach part 2
Fri 28 June	Verlinde part 2	Nekrasov part 2	Martinec part 3	Konechny 20', Shomer 20'
	9h30 -11h	11h30 - 13h	14h30 - 15h30	15h30 - 16h30
Sat 29 June	Zwiebach part 3	Verlinde part 3	Nekrasov part 3	Volovich 20', Fabinger 20'

Sun 30 June	*free - social activities will be organized*

	9h30 -11h	11h30 - 13h	14h30 - 15h30	15h30 - 16h30

Mon 1 July	Harvey part 1	Sagnotti part 1	COW BELL SHOW
Tue 2 July	Sagnotti part 2	Antoniadis part 1	Bousso part 1	Henri-Labordere 20', Costa 20'
Wed 3 July	Harvey part 2	Bousso part 2	Antoniadis part 2	Schnabl 20'
Thu 4 July	Friedan part 1	Aharony part 1	Sagnotti part 3	Bousso 1h30 part 3
Fri 5 July	Minwalla part 1	Friedan part 2	Aharony part 2	Neitzke 20', Gran 20'
Sat 6 July	Antoniadis part 3	Aharony part 3	Minwalla part 2

Sun 7 July	*free - social activities will be organized*

	9h30 -11h	11h30 - 13h	14h30 - 15h30	15h30 - 16h30

Mon 8 July	Strominger part 1	Klebanov part 1	Minwalla part 3	Wacker 20', Runkel 20'
Tue 9 July	Rabinovici	Klebanov part 2	Strominger part 2	Vonk 20', Schulz 20'
Wed 10 July	Strominger part 3	Rabinovici part 2	Klebanov part 3

Thu 11 July	*Departure*

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E.G. Jun 19th, 2002