LISBON SCHOOL
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The Lisbon School on Superstrings
will be held in the
Instituto Superior Técnico ,
Lisbon, Portugal, December 16-18, 1998.
Our aim is to have a School on the fascinating new developments in Superstring Theory. |
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C. Gomez | (IFT, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): | (To be announced) |
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B. Ovrut | (Pennsylvania University): | Non-Perturbative Vacua, M-Theory and Particle Physics |
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F. Quevedo | (DAMTP, Cambridge): | Strings, Duality and Low-Energy Physics |
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L. Susskind | (Stanford University): | The Holographic Principle |
The organization has made a block reservation in:
Hotel AS Lisboa
Avenida Almirante Reis, 188
1000 Lisboa
(near underground station "Alameda" and
Instituto Superior Técnico)
Phone: +351-1-8473025
Fax: +351-1-8473034
From the Hotel you can see the Institute if you look
to the side opposite to the fountain. Going up the hill
you enter the Institute through stairs between #7 and #14
in the
plant
of the Institute (you will be facing the central building - #1 -
of the Institute as in photo above).
Then head to #5 and look for
room PA3 on floor -1 where the Schhol is taking place.
Please make your reservation by filling in the relevant part in the registration form .
The special prices for School participants are: 7900 PTE (single) and 9900 PTE (double and shared double). PTE stands for portuguese escudos and 170 PTE app. = 1 Dolar.
See page for touristic information about Lisbon.
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The VENUE
The School will be held at the Lisbon Instituto Superior Técnico .The lectures will be held in room PA3 of Edifício de Pós Graduação (floor -1 under the Mathematics Department, near the Bar). The mathematics department is #5 in the plant of the Institute. See accommodation section above for the explanation of how to get to the Institute from the Hotel.
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Maria Conceição Bento (Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico)
Orfeu Bertolami (Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico)
José Mourão (Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico)
Roger Picken (Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico)
Home page address: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~orfeu/lsss/main.html
email: bento@sirius.ist.utl.pt .![]()
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank finantial support from:
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Centro Interdisciplinar de Astrofísica, Instituto Superior Técnico
Grupo Teórico de Altas Energias
Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Our thanks to Robbert Dijkgraaf for the brane figure.