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This talk is dedicated to various aspects of Mirror Symmetry. It summarizes some of the mathematical developments that took place since M. Kontsevich's report at the Z\"urich ICM and provides an extensive, although not exhaustive,…
Contents: APS Topical Group in Gravitation News: April 1997 Joint APS/AAPT Meeting Research briefs: GEO600 by Karsten Danzmann Black hole microstates in string theory by Gary Horowitz LIGO project status by Stan Whitcomb The Hamiltonian…
These are extended notes for my lectures at the workshop ``Reconstructing the Gravitational Hologram'' held at Galileo-Galilei Institute, Florence, in June 2022.
GGR News: o GGR program at the APS meeting in Denver, by David Garfinkle o we hear that ..., by David Garfinkle o 400 years ago, by David Garfinkle Conference reports: o The 24th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, by Scott Hughes…
This is a pedagogic account of some of the global properties of Anti-de-Sitter spacetime with a view to their application to the AdS/CFT correspondence. Particular care is taken over the distinction between Anti-de-Sitter and it's covering…
Lectures presented at the Spring School, Trieste, Italy 1993.
This is a reply to a comment (gr-qc/0610098) written by Nieves and Pal about our paper (gr-qc/0605153) published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 041101 (2006).
GGR News: - The View from the NSF, by Beverly Berger - GGR Program at the APS meeting in Jacksonville we hear that..., by David Garfinkle - 100 years ago, by David Garfinkle Research Briefs: - The Double Pulsar, by Michael Kramer -…
A seminar given about 30 years ago by Ruben Aldrovandi motivates this text where some reflexions about constructing theories that modify General Relativity are made. Two particular cases, the Brans-Dicke and Unimodular Gravity ones, are…
These notes are from a 4-lecture mini-course taught by the author at the conference on von Neumann algebras as part of the ``Geometrie non commutative en mathematiques et physique'' month at CIRM in 2004.
GGR News: The WYP speakers program, by Richard Price We hear that..., by Jorge Pullin 100 Years ago, by Jorge Pullin Research Briefs: What's new in LIGO, by David Shoemaker Recent developments in the information loss paradox, by Eanna…
This is a summary of the talks presented at the International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (top2008) held in Elba, Italy, May 18-24, 2008.
Talk presented at the XXIX Rencontres de Moriond, Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, March 12-19, 1994, Meribel
Invited talk presented at the 1994 Meeting of The Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, Albuquerque NM, August 1-6, 1994
Invited talk at the PSI Summer School on Physics with Neutrinos, Zuoz, Switzerland, August 4-10, 1996.
Mini-Proceedings ECT*: Speakable in quantum mechanics: atomic, nuclear and subnuclear physics tests, ECT*-Trento, 29 August - 2 September, 2011
This text is based on a series of three expository lectures on a variety of topics related to "thin orbits," as delivered at Durham University's Easter School on "Dynamics and Analytic Number Theory" in April 2014. The first lecture reviews…
These are notes of lectures on spinning particles and the worldline formalism originally given by Olindo Corradini and Christian Schubert at the School on Spinning Particles in Quantum Field Theory: Worldline Formalism, Higher Spins, and…
Talk presented at the XXVI International Conference on High Energy Physics, Dallas, Texas, August, 12, 1992.
These lectures aim to provide a global picture of the spaces of consistent quantum supergravity theories and string vacua in higher dimensions. The lectures focus on theories in the even dimensions 10, 8, and 6. Supersymmetry, along with…