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ITP Conference on
         New Dimensions in Field Theory and String Theory
        November 17-20, 1999
               Organizers:  D. Kutasov, L. Randall and M. Shifman

        FINAL  SCHEDULE

            All sessions to be held in ITP Main Seminar Room unless otherwise specified.
 

See photos from the Conference.

 
 
Wednesday,
  November 17, 1999:
Time:
 Speaker: Title:
8:00 am
 Registration  ITP Lobby
9:00
 David Gross Welcome to the ITP[Audio]
  Mikhail Shifman Welcome to the Conference[Audio]
   
Session Chair: 
 S. Elitzur
9:20 
 Mikhail Shifman
(Univ of Minnesota)		 Branes and Strings of Flesh and Blood
10:10
 Matthew Strassler
(IAS)		 How a CFT Can Make the (S)Flavor Problem Irrelevant[Audio]
11:00
 Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:30
 Michael Dine
(UCSC)		 Remarks on Moduli: Stabilization and Cosmology[Audio]
12:20 pm
 Lunch  ITP Front Patio
 
Session Chair: 
 A. Hanany
2:00
 Savas Dimopoulos
(Stanford Univ)		 Physics Inside the Extra Dimensions[Audio]
2:50
 N. Arkani-Hamed
(UCB)		 Unification and Exponentially Large Dimensions[Audio]
3:40
 Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
4:10
 Markus Luty
(Univ. of Maryland)		 Radius Stabilization and Anomaly-Mediated 
Supersymmetry Breaking [Audio]
5:00
 James Wells
(UC Davis)		 Collider Clues of Extra Dimensions[Audio]
5:50
 Discussion
 6:30


 Special Event:
6:30 - Munchies
6:45 - Dinner		 ITP Front Patio
Thursday,
  November 18, 1999
Session Chair: 
 S. Thomas
9:00 am
 Hiroshi Ooguri
(UCB)		 Strings in AdS_3, Beyond Supergravity Approximation[Audio]
9:50
 Amihay Hanany
(MIT)		 Magnetic Monopoles in Type I' String Theory[Audio]
10:40
 Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:20
 Igor Klebanov
(Princeton)		 Type 0 Strings and Gauge Theories[Audio]
12:10 pm
 Lunch ITP Front Patio
Session Chair: 
 B. de Wit
1:30
 Raman Sundrum
(Stanford Univ)		 Localized Gravity in Extra Dimensions[Audio]
2:10
 Steve Giddings
UCSB		 Gravitational Dynamics in Branification Scenarios[Audio]
2:50
 Discussion* *Comments by E. Witten on Sundrum & Giddings talk[Audio]
3:10
 Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
3:40
 Mark Wise
(CalTech) 		 Stabilizing the Separation between 3-branes[Audio]
4:30
 Joseph Lykken
(Fermilab.)		 New Wrinkles in Extra Dimensions[Audio]
5:20
 Ann Nelson
(Univ. of Washington)		 New Dimensions and the Supersymmetric Flavor Problem[Audio]
6:10
 Discussion
5:50
 End of Session
Friday,
  November 19, 1999
Session Chair: 
 J. Polchinski
9:00 am
 Edward Witten 
(IAS/Caltech)		 Connectedness Of Boundary In AdS/CFT Correspondence[Audio]
9:50
 Burt Ovrut
(Univ. of Pennsylvania)		 New Non-Perturbative Physics in Heterotic M-Theory[Audio]
10:40
 Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:10
 P. Horava
(Caltech)		 D-Brane Surprises[Audio]
12:00 pm
 Lunch ITP Front Patio
Session Chair: 
 P. Argyres
1:30
 Michael Peskin
(SLAC)		 TeV Strings and Collider Probes of New Space Dimensions[Audio]
2:10
 Jonathan Feng
(IAS)		 Supernatural Supersymmetry [Audio]
2:50
 Discussion
3:10
 Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
3:40
 Takeo Moroi
(IAS)		 Anomalies in Supergravity Theories [Audio]
4:30
 Georgi Dvali
(New York Univ.)		 Folded Universe[Audio]
5:20
 Discussion
 6:30

 

 Special Event:
6:30 - Munchies
6:45 - Dinner		 ITP Front Patio

 
Saturday,
 November 20, 1999
Session Chair: 
 S. Gubser
8:50 am
 Andrei Smilga
(Univ of Nantes)		 Normalized Supersymmetric Vacuum States in the d-10 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Quantum Mechanics with any Gauge Group[Audio]
9:40
 Gordon Kane
(Univ of Michigan)		 D-branes, Large Soft Supersymmetry Phases, and
CP Violation[Audio]
Discussion* *Comments by Michael Peskin on G. Kane talk
10:30
 Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
11:00
 A. Vainshtein
(Univ. of Minnesota)		 Anomaly and the Central Charge in 2d Theories with Minimal Supersymmetry [Audio]
11:50
 Savdeep Sethi
(IAS)		 Warped Compactifications[Audio]
12:40 pm
 Lunch ITP Front Patio
Session Chair: 
 A. Vainshtein
2:00
 Vipul Periwal
(Princeton Univ.))		 Gravity is Noise[Audio]
2:50
 Steven Gubser
(Harvard) 		 Renormalization Group Flows in AdS/CFT[Audio]
3:40
 Refreshment Break ITP Front Patio
4:10
 Herman Verlinde
(Princeton Univ.)		 Holography and Compactification[Audio]
5:00
 Discussion* *Comments by S. Gubser on H. Verlinde talk
6:00
 End of Conference

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