Contract ref:
MRTN-CT-2004-005104
Network home page :
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~luest/forcesuniverse.html
Organizing Committee:
I. Bakas (Patras and CERN) (chairman)
A. Ceresole (Turin)
E. Kiritsis (Crete and Ecole Polytechnique)
C. Kounnas (Ecole Normale Superieure)
D. Luest (Munich)
Please address all questions to I. Bakas
Plenary lecturers and topics:
G. Cardoso (Munich): Black-holes entropy and string theory
F. Denef (Rutgers): Constructions and distributions of string vacua
J.-P. Derendinger (Neuchatel): Supergravity gaugings and moduli superpotentials
G. Gibbons (Cambridge): Remarks on Brane Cosmology
E. Verlinde (Amsterdam): The topological string partition function as a wave-function
Special Seminars:
G. Arutyunov (Utrecht) : Integrable Hamiltonian For Classical Strings On ADS_5 x S^5
K. Behrndt (Munich) : Supersymmetric D=5 black holes and black rings
R. Minasian (Saclay) : Generalized geometry of N=1 vacua
Meeting Location
Hotel Corfu Holiday Palace, area Kanoni (ex Hilton Hotel as known to the locals), 4kms from the Corfu town and 4km from the airport.
Detailed programme