e-proceedings

Summer 96 Theory Institute: Topics in Non-Abelian Duality

   Argonne National Laboratory
High Energy Physics Division
June 27 - July 12, 1996 
Spires Conf Number C96/06/27

HEP 362, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439-4815, USA

Enthusiasts and mahatmas in Physics Theory came together at Argonne National Laboratory (Chicago), in an informal research environment, to compare notes on progress and to interact. The Institute was generously supported by F Fradin, Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Research.

Participants: T Curtright (6/27-7/12), P Freund, Y Nambu, A Jevicki (7/7-14), D Kutasov, T Uematsu (7/4-16), C Klimcík (7/1-12), S Hassan (7/1-10), L Palla (6/29-7/12), Y Lozano (7/8-12), E Martinec, D Fairlie (6/28-7/12), K Sfetsos (7/7-14), M Henningson (7/8-14), SK Nam (7/1-13), M Li (6/27-7/10), D Parashar (7/1-7), S Nasir (6/27- 7/12), E Alvarez (7/8-12), K Skenderis (6/29-7/14), P Yi (7/7-12), C-H Liu (7/8-11), R Tatar (7/1-10), A Bordner (7/3-12), S Das (7/7-12), B deWit (7/10-14), D Freedman (7/8-12), S Fernando (7/7-7/12), C Corianò, S Trivedi, M O'Loughlin

Much of the participation status, daily business, and research results of this institute were transparent through posting at this very Website on a regular basis, for browsing through Mosaic or Netscape, in comportance with the "large-scale disintermediation" envisioned by Web believers such as P Ginsparg .  

E-PROCEEDINGS for the DUALITY INSTITUTE TALKS

C Zachos, e-editor
  1. Membranes and Reparameterisation Invariance [q.v.] JUL 1, 2pm: D Fairlie (Durham U)
  2. Nonlocal Canonical Equivalence, Nonabelian Duality, and Symphysis [q.v.] JUL 2, 10:30am: T Curtright (U Miami)
  3. Some Comments on F-Theory [q.v.] JUL 2, 2pm: M Li (Brown U)
  4. Global Aspects of Poisson-Lie T-duality [q.v.] JUL 3, 10:30am: C Klimcík (CERN)
  5. Perturbative Quantum (in)Equivalence of Dual Sigma Models in 2d [q.v., & v.] JUL 3, 2pm: L Palla (Eotvos U, Budapest)
  6. Covariant beta-function Computation for the Heterotic Superstring [q.v., & v.] JUL 8, 10am: K Skenderis (SUNYSB)
  7. Integrable Structure of SUSY QCD and Relation to String Duality [q.v., & v., ] JUL 8, 11am: S Nam (Kyung Hee U, Seoul)
  8. M-theory and N=2 Heterotic Strings [q.v., & v.] JUL 8, 2pm: E Martinec (EFI, U Chicago)
  9. D-Branes and Black Hole Thermodynamics [q.v., & v., & v., & v.] JUL 8, 3pm: S Das (Tata Inst)
  10. Electromagnetic Duality and Non-Abelian Monopoles [q.v.] JUL 9, 10am: Piljin Yi (Columbia U)
  11. A Canonical Approach to Duality Transformations [q.v. , & v., & v.] JUL 9, 11am: Y Lozano (Princeton U)
  12. Counting Curves with Modular Forms [q.v.] JUL 9, 2pm: M Henningson (Yale U)
  13. T-Duality and Supersymmetry [q.v., & v., & v.] JUL 10, 10am: S Hassan (CERN)
  14. T-duality, Supersymmetry and Non-local Realizations with Parafermions [q.v., & v., & v., & v. ]; Universal Aspects of String Propagation on Curved Backgrounds [q.v., & v.] JUL 10, 11am: K Sfetsos (Utrecht U)
  15. T-duality for Open Strings in D-manifolds [q.v.] JUL 10, 2pm: E Alvarez (U Autonoma, Madrid)
  16. Target-space Duality between Simple Compact Lie Groups and Lie Algebras under the Hamiltonian Formalism--from known to unknown and beyond [q.v.] JUL 10, 3pm: C-H Liu (Miami)
  17. Matrix Models, Open Strings, and Membranes [q.v.] JUL 11, 10:30am: A Jevicki (Brown U)
  18. Symplectic Covariance Versus Holomorphy [q.v., & v., & v.] JUL 12, 10:30am: B de Wit (Utrecht U)
Conference proceedings in their conventional paper form have finally cut a path to their own obsolescence, by dint of electronic posting on the Web. The above list will serve as a superior substitute, namely "electronic proceedings". We encourage participants to inform CZ of the web-links (URLs, or even hep-th numbers) of their posted writeups of talks, or resulting publications, or relevant recent work spawned by the institute: these will be thus collated in a collection hyper-linked through this page, eventually to be linked to SPIRES Conference Information, etc., for "permanent" standing. This collection will only collate e-prints archived elsewhere (Los Alamos; SPIRES; the participants' own computers--but note indefinite maintenance is required of the last option!). It will bear no © or other proprietary interest in those works--which could be then submitted, if desired, for conventional paper publication elsewhere. Consequently, there are no deadlines, no page limits, no format requirements. The number of potential readers with access to such virtual proceedings is vastly larger than those of any traditional paper volume. (In my experience, such volumes gather dust on the shelves and are flushed/trashed every few years in our library; other, more frugal, libraries simply refuse to buy them, and their users never access them.) These e-proceedings are intended as a pure scientific communication device.

Institute Photographs: Nam,Yi,Curtright, Nambu, Uematsu, Jevicki;     Klimcik, Uematsu, Nam, Alvarez, Das, Palla;     Das, Freedman, Jevicki, Sfetsos, Henningson;     Zachos, Freedman;

Spawned/acknowledged Papers: v.,    & v.,    & v.,    & v.,    & v.

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