Strings, branes, and gravity
Subtitle: TASI 99 : Boulder, Colorado, USA, 31 May-25 June 1999
By: editors, Jeffrey Harvey, Shamit Kachru, Eva Silverstein.
Contributors: Harvey, Jeffrey.; Kachru, Shamit, 1970-; Silverstein, Eva, 1970-
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Singapore; River Edge, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 933
Subjects: String models -- Congresses.; Gravity -- Congresses.; Compactifications -- Congresses.; Duality (Nuclear physics) -- Congresses.; Black holes (Astronomy) -- Congresses.; Supersymmetry -- Congresses.; Branes -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: TASI 99; Lecture notes of TASI 99
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: TASI lectures on branes, black holes and anti-De Sitter space -- M.J. Duff; title: D-brane primer -- Clifford V. Johnson; title: TASI lectures on black holes in string theory -- Amanda W. Peet; title: TASI lectures : cosmology for string theorists -- Sean M. Carroll; title: TASI lectures on matrix theory -- Tom Banks; title: TASI lectures M theory phenomenology -- Michael Dine; title: TASI lectures : introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence -- Igor R. Klebanov; title: TASI lectures on compactification and duality -- David R. Morrison; title: Compactification, Geometry and duality : N=2 -- Paul S. Aspinwall; title: TASI lectures on non-BPS D-brane systems -- John H. Schwarz; title: Lectures on warped compactifications and stringy brane constructions -- Shamit Kachru; title: TASI lectures on the holographic principle -- Daniela Bigatti and Leonard Susskind.