These proceedings form an analysis of the nonperturbative aspects of strings, branes and supersymmetry. Issues addressed include supermembranes and the Matrix theory; non-supersymmetric strings; superembeddings; aspects of the M5-brane; and domain walls and the universe.
Supersymmetry effective actions in four dimensions, P.C. Argyres;
supermembranes and M(atrix) Theory, H. Nicolai and R. Helling; etudes on
D-branes, C.V. Johnson; two lectures on D-geometry and noncommutative
geometry, M.R. Douglas; two lectures on AdS/CFT correspondence, M.R. Douglas
and S. Randjbar-Daemi; phenomenological aspects of string theory, J. Louis;
conformal symmetry on world volumes of branes, P. Claus et al;
non-supersymmetric strings, S. Kachru; self-dual tensors in six-dimensional
supergravity, F. Riccioni and A. Sagnotti; Euclidean-signature supergravities
and dualities, E. Cremmer et al; AdS gravity and field theories at fixpoints,
K. Behrndt; superembeddings, P.S. Howe; on some features of the M-5-brane, D.
Sorokin; brane dynamics and four-dimensional quantum field theory, N.D.
Lambert and P. West; anti-de-Sitter space, branes, singletons, superconformal
field theories and all that, M.J. Duff; aspects of the M-5 brane, E. Sezgin
and P. Sundell; matrix theory black holes and the cross-Witten transition, L.
Susskind; domain walls and the universe, K.S. Stelle; correlation functions
of the global E8 symmetry currents in the heterotic 5-brane theory, M. Krogh;
on the construction of SL(2,Z) type IIB 5-branes, J.X. Lu and S. Roy; on the
(2,0) theory in six dimensions, M. Rozali; the no-ghost theorem and strings
on AdS3, J.M. Evans et al; six-dimensional fixed points from Hanany-Witten
setups, A. Karch and I. Brunner.
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