PROGRAM

STRING THEORY AT THE MILLENNIUM

CIT-USC Center for Theoretical Physics

January 12-15, 2000, Caltech

Tue 11	18.00-22.00	Reception
Wed 12	08.45-09.15	David Baltimore Lloyd Armstrong	Welcoming Remarks
	09.15-10.30	Witten	"Quantum Self-Duality of Ramond-Ramond Fields"
	10.30-11.15	Coffee Break
	11.15-12.30	Banks	"Supersymmetry and Spacetime"
	12.30-14.30	Lunch
	14.30-15.45	Sen	"Aspects of Non-Supersymmetric Brane Configurations"
	15.45-16.15	Coffee Break
	16.15-17.30	Polchinski	"Excision of Singularities in String Theory"
	17.30	End of Session
Thu 13	09.30-10.45	Strominger	"The Quantum Mechanics of N Black Holes"
	10.45-11.15	Coffee Break
	11.15-12.30	Randall	"Lessons From Extra Dimensions"
	12.30-14.30	Lunch
	14.30-15.45	Green	"String Scattering in the Bulk and on the Brane"
	15.45-16.15	Coffee Break
	16.15-17.30	Vafa	"Mirror Symmetry"
	17.30	End of Session
Fri 14	09.30-10.45	Seiberg	"The IR/UV Connection"
	10.45-11.15	Coffee Break
	11.15-12.30	Ooguri	"Long Strings in AdS_3, Short Strings in CY_3"
	12.30-14.30	Lunch
	14.30-15.45	Dijkgraaf	"Discrete Fluxes in String Theory"
	15.45-16.15	Coffee Break
	16.15-17.30	Maldacena	"Some Topics in the AdS/CFT Correspondence"
	17.30	End of Session
	18.30-22.30	Banquet Gell-Mann
Sat 15	09.00-09.30	Schwarz	"The Future of String Theory"
	09.30-10.00	Susskind	"The Holographic Principle and its Limitations"
	10.00-10.30	Polyakov	"Gauge Fields, Strings and the Fifth Dimension"
	10.30-11.15	Coffee Break
	11.15-11.45	Hawking	"No Boundaries to the Brane"
	11.45-12.15	Singer	"Math/Physics, Then & Now, Now & Then"
	12.15-14.00	Lunch
	14.00-14.30	Gross	"Some Possible Conceptual Revolutions of the 21th Century"
	14.30-15.00	Shenker	"What Are Strings Made Of?"
	15.00-15.30	`t Hooft	"Quantum Mechanics with Strings Attached"
	15.30	Closing Remarks