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Meeting Joaquim Gomis, "Gravity, Strings and Branes"
Monday 30 - Tuesday 31 May 2005 organizer: Antoine Van Proeyen (KU Leuven)

On the occasion of the international Francqui chair awarded to Joaquim Gomis (U. Barcelona) there was a meeting in Leuven.
[ Programme ] (click here for pdf version) (transparencies obtainable from clicking on titles) Monday (chair: morning: Martin Rocek, afternoon: Ana Achúcarro) 09:30 - 10:15: Dan Freedman (MIT) Anomalies and flux vacua 10:20 - 11:05: Bernard de Wit (Utrecht): Magnetic charges in local field theory; lessons learnt from gauging maximal supergravity. coffee 11:30 - 12:15: Joaquim Gomis (Barcelona): Kinematical groups. Particles and strings lunch 14:15 - 15:00: Hans-Peter Nilles (Bonn): Flux compactification and the pattern of supersymmetry breakdown 15:05 -15:50 : Alexandre Sevrin (V.U.Brussel): Effective actions for D-branes (ppt file) or pdf file coffee 16:15- 17:00: Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook): Boundary conditions in supergravity theories Tuesday (chair: morning: François Englert, afternoon: Marc Grisaru) 09:30 - 10:15: Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht): A Holographic Mapping of the Standard Model on the Black Hole Horizon 10:20 - 11:05: Chris Hull (Imperial College): Duality and Stringy Generalisations of Geometry. coffee 11:30 - 12:15: Marc Henneaux (U.L. Bruxelles): Non-linear realizations of E(10) and M-theory lunch 14:15 - 15:00: Jaume Gomis (Perimeter): Non-relativistic Strings in AdS 15:00 - 16:00: final discussion session on prospects in quantum gravity / strings	[Location ] The meeting takes place in building C on the campus of the university. Auditorium A (or 01.0027) Travel instructions are on the website of the Institute for theoretical physics. [Participants ]
[ Contact ] For more information you can contact the secretaries of theoretical physics: Christine Detroije: christine.detroye@fys.kuleuven.be, +32-16-32 7232 Anita Raets: anita.raets@fys.kuleuven.be, +32-16-32 7232