The areas covered in this volume include: duality in string theory and supersymmetric gauge theories; phenomenological applications of string theory; strings in curved spacetime; quantum gravity; SUSY conformal field theories; QCD strings; aspects of mathematical physics, including: mirror symmetry, W-algebras, representation theory.
Superstrings as unified theories, L. Ibanez; coping with strongly
coupled string theory, M. Dine; discrete symmetries and superstrings, M.
Green; progress in (0,2) string compactifications, J. Distler; unitary rules
for black hole evaporation, A. Strominger; regularization in quantum
mechanical supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models, P. van Nieuwenhuizen;
irrational conformal field theory, M. Halpern; embedding hierarchies in
string theory, C. Pope; aspects of model building in string theory in curved
spacetime - a ghost-free SL(2,R) string, I. Bars; exact solutions in string
theory, A. Tseytlin; the master field for large-N theories, D. Gross;
refining the elliptic genus, N. Warner; the world as a hologram, L. Susskind;
and other papers.
