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As part of the Theme Year 1999-2000

Frontiers of Mathematical Physics:
Summer Workshop on Particles, Fields and Strings '99

August 2-20, 1999

University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Co-sponsors:
Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIms)
Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP)

The workshop is devoted to modern developments in mathematical physics, gauge and string theories. The subject of the workshop includes in particular: non-perturbative string and superstring theory; anti-de-Sitter space and conformal field theory; large-N QCD, confining strings; MQCD, duality; M(atrix) theory.

Organizers:

Taejin Lee (Kangwon National University), Yuri Makeenko (ITEP, Moscow & NBI, Copenhagen), John Ng (TRIUMF), Soonkeon Nam (APCTP, Seoul), Chaiho Rim (APCTP, Seoul), Alexander Rutherford (PIms), Gordon Semenoff (UBC), K.S. Viswanathan (Simon Fraser), Ariel Zhitnitsky (UBC)

The list of invited speakers includes:

R. Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam), D. Gross (*) (UC Santa Barbara), J. Harvey (Chicago), I. Klebanov (Princeton), J. Maldacena (*) (Harvard), J. Polchinski (UC Santa Barbara), A. Polyakov (*) (Princeton), H. Verlinde (Princeton)
(*) to be confirmed

Further Information:

"Particles, Fields and Strings '99" web site, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia

22 March 1999, webmaster@CRM.UMontreal.CA