Fondation Francqui-Stichting
Fondation d’Utilité Publique -  Stichting van Openbaar Nut

Strings and Gravity : Typing the Forces Together

(Hotel Le Méridien, 19-20-21 octobre 2001)

Programme 

Friday,  October 19

17:00 hours : Welcome drink and registration

Saturday,  October 20

8:30 hours : Opening talks

Chair: Professor Bernard de Wit University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

8:45 hours : Professor Michael Green, Cambridge University, UK - Correspondences between Yang-Mills and string theory in anti-de Sitter space
9:40 hours : Professor Joseph Polchinski, University of California, Santa Barbara-USA - Hard processes in gauge/gravity duality

10:35 hours : Coffee Break

Chair: Professor Robert Dijkgraaf University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

11:05 hours : Professor Gary Gibbons, Cambridge University, UK - D-branes and new metrics of special holonomy
12:00 hours : Professor Jan de Boer,Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, the Netherlans - D-branes in curved space"

12:40 hours : Lunch

Chair: Professor Constantin Bachas, Lab. de Physique Théorique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris-France

14:15 hours : Professor Ariel Goobar,Stockholm University, Sweden - Supernovae and dark energy

15:10 hours : Professor Thibault Damour, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques -
Bures-sur-Yvette-France - Superstring cosmology

16:05 hours : Coffee Break

Chair: Professor François Englert,Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

16:35 hours : Professor Valerii A. Rubakov,Institut for Nuclear Research - Moscow, Russia - Exotic low energy physics with extra dimensions

17:30 hours : End of Session

Sunday, October 21

Chair: Professor Adam Schwimmer,Weizmann Institute, Rehovot- Israel

9:00 hours : Professor Nathan Seiberg,Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton-USA - From big crunch to big bang

9:55 hours : Professor Stanley Deser, Brandeis University, Waltham-USA - Gauge invariance with mass: higher spins in cosmological spaces

10:35 hours : Coffee Break

Chair: Professor Herman Nicolai, Max-Planck Institut für Gravitationphysik, Golm-Germany

11:05 hours : Professor Pierre Ramond, Universty of Florida Gainesville- USA - Algebraic dreams
11:45 hours : Professor Claudio Teitelboim, Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Valdivia-Chile - Relaxation of the cosmological constant

12:30 hours : Lunch

Chair: Professor Lars Brink (Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg-Sweden

14:15 hours : Professor Stephen W. Hawking, Cambridge University, UK - Living with ghosts
15:10 hours : Professor Andrew Strominger, Harvard University, Cambridge-USA - The DS/CFT correspondence

16:05 hours : Coffee

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