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Lecture given at the workshop "Mathematical aspects of theories of gravitation", Stefan Banach International Mathematical Centre, 7 March 1996. A mini-introduction to critical phenomena in gravitational collapse is combined with a more…
This article is the written version of the closing talk presented at the conference `A Century of Cosmology' held at San Servolo, Italy, in August 2007. I focus on the prospects of constraining fundamental physics from cosmological…
Summmary talk at the Workshop on Sin and Flavour in Hadronic and Electromagnetic Interactions, Turin (Italy), september 1992, to appear in the Proceedings,
This is a talk given by S.D. at the the workshop on Random Surfaces and 2D Quantum Gravity, Barcelona 10-14 June 1991. It is an updated review of recent work done by the authors on a proposal for non-perturbatively stable 2D quantum gravity…
Plenary talk at PASCOS-98, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, March 22-29, 1998.
Notes of five lectures given at the 2003 European School of High-Energy Physics, Tsakhkadzor, Armenia, September 2003
This is the report of the "Quantum General Relativity" session, at the 16th International Conference on General Relativity & Gravitation, held on July 15th to 21st 2001, in Durban, South Africa. The report will appear on the Proceedings of…
This is the written version of two lectures given at the Newton Institute Euroconference on Duality and Supersymmetric Theories, Cambridge, England, 7-18 Apr 1997. It deals with the nature of supergravity vacua and black holes and black…
This is a talk, given at Diffraction'2000, Sept. 2 - 7, Centraro, Italy. In this talk, we present the arguments, that a new QCD regime - gluon saturation, has been reached at HERA.
This is an expanded version of talks given by the author at the Trieste Spring School on Supergravity and Superstrings in April of 1997 and at the accompanying workshop. The manuscript is intended to be a mini-review of Matrix Theory. The…
To appear in proceedings of Solitons, A CRM-Fields-CAP Summer Workshop in Theoretical Physics, July 20-26, Kingston, Ontario, Canada 1997. (Talk delivered by M. Rocek.)
Some relations between conformal relativity and Weyl-Dirac theory are rephrased and clarified.
These are the proceedings of the XVIII Conference of the Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG) held at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras, INDIA during Feb. 15-17, 1996. The Conference was dedicated…
This review is based on lectures given at the 1992 Trieste Spring School on String Theory and Quantum Gravity and at the 1992 TASI Summer School in Boulder, Colorado.
Invited Talk at {\sl ICNAPP}, Bangalore, India, Jan. 1994; {\sl Int. School on Cosmological Dark Matter}, Valencia, Oct. 1993; and Gran Sasso meeting on {\sl Solar Neutrino Problem: astrophysics or oscillations?}, march 1994.
This is the written version of lectures presented at "The 17th Symposium on Theoretical Physics - Applied Field Theory", 29 June - 1 July, 1998, the Sangsan Mathematical Science Building, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Lectures given at the Workshop "Hadrons 1994", Gramado, RS, Brasil
Late Winter Lecture Notes, Short Course (10 hours) of Relativistic Astrophysics held at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padova, March 13-17, 2017. Third version.
Lectures given at the Trieste Summer School, 1992. These notes are an update of my review article "Classical and Quantum W-Gravity", preprint QMW-92-1, published in in "Strings and Symmetries 1991", with some extra material on W-geometry,…
Lecture notes given at the summer school ``Applications of random matrices to physics", Les Houches, June 2004.