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<h1> LISBON SCHOOL <br> on <br> SUPERSTRINGS <br>
December, 16-18 <br>
1998
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<a name="school"><h3>THE SCHOOL</h3></a>
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The Lisbon School on Superstrings
will be held in the
<a href="http://www.ist.utl.pt/" target=_top"> Instituto Superior Técnico </a>,
Lisbon, Portugal, December 16-18, 1998.
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Our aim is to have a School
on the fascinating
new developments in Superstring Theory.
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<a name="courses"><h3>PLANNED COURSES</h3></a>
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<b> C. Gomez </b></a>
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(IFT, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid):
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<em> (To be announced)
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<b> B. Ovrut </b></a>
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(Pennsylvania University):
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<em> Non-Perturbative Vacua, M-Theory and Particle Physics
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<b> F. Quevedo </b></a>
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(DAMTP, Cambridge):
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<em> Strings, Duality and Low-Energy Physics
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<b> L. Susskind </b></a>
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(Stanford University):
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<em> The Holographic Principle
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<a name="geninfo"><h3> ACCOMMODATION </h3></a>
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The organization has made a block reservation in:
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Hotel AS Lisboa<br>
Avenida Almirante Reis, 188<br>
1000 Lisboa
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(near underground station "Alameda" and <br> <a href="http://www.ist.utl.pt/" target=_top"> Instituto Superior Técnico</a>)<br>
Phone: +351-1-8473025<br>
Fax: +351-1-8473034
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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
<a href="http://www.ist.utl.pt/pt/campus/">plant</a>
of the Institute (you will be facing the central building - #1 -
of the Institute as in <a href="#school">photo</a> above).<br>
Then head to #5 and look for
room PA3 on floor -1 where the Schhol is taking place.
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Please make your reservation by filling in the relevant
part in the <a href="aff.html"> registration form </a>.
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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.
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See<a href="http://home.sol.no/~nancys/portugal/lisboa/" target="_top"> page </a>
for touristic information about Lisbon.
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<a name="local"><h3> The VENUE</h3></a>
The School will be held at
the Lisbon
<a href="http://www.ist.utl.pt" target="_top"> Instituto Superior Técnico </a>.
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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 <a href="http://www.ist.utl.pt/pt/campus/">plant</a> of the Institute.
See <a href="#geninfo"> accommodation </a> section above for
the explanation of how to get to the Institute from the Hotel.
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<a name="OC"><h3> ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</h3></a>
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<a href="mailto:bento@sirius.ist.utl.pt">Maria Conceição Bento</a>
(Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico) <br>
<a href="mailto:orfeu@cosmos.ist.utl.pt">Orfeu Bertolami</a>
(Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico) <br>
<a href="mailto:jmourao@ualg.pt">José Mourão </a>
(Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico) <br>
<a href="mailto:picken@math.ist.utl.pt">Roger Picken </a>
(Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico) <br>
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Home page address: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~orfeu/lsss/main.html <br>
email: <a href="mailto:bento@sirius.ist.utl.pt">bento@sirius.ist.utl.pt </a>.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS </a>
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We thank finantial support from:<br>
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia<br>
Centro Interdisciplinar de Astrofísica, Instituto Superior Técnico <br>
Grupo Teórico de Altas Energias <br>
Caixa Geral de Depósitos<br>
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Our thanks to Robbert Dijkgraaf for the brane figure.
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