Strings, Gauge Fields and Duality

A conference to mark the retirement of

Professor David Olive, CBE FRS

University of Wales Swansea  24th -27th March 2004

Invited Speakers
Bobby Acharya  (ICTP Trieste) Michael Green (Cambridge) Nikita Nekrasov (IHES)
Ofer Aharony (Weizmann Inst.) Jeff Harvey (Chicago) Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech)
Jan de Boer (Amsterdam) Chris Hull (Imperial College) Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew Univ.)
Lars Brink (Göteborg) Bernard Julia (ENS Paris) Nathan Seiberg (IAS Princeton)
Ed Corrigan (York) Igor Klebanov  (Princeton) Dave Tong (MIT)
David Fairlie (Durham) Claus Montonen (Helsinki) Arkady Tseytlin (Imperial/Ohio)
Andreas Fring (City University) Peter West (King's College)

The conference will reflect David's major scientific contributions, and will consist of a mix of review lectures and contributions on new developments in string theory and SUSY gauge theory.

Talks will begin at 2:00pm on Wednesday 24th March and finish just before lunch on Saturday 27th

The talks given at the workshop are now available online


The registration fee of £200 (£100 for students) will cover costs of full board in UWS halls and a banquet. 


Click Here for details of what to do on arrival


Click Here to see a list of registered participants


Click Here for details on how to pay the registration fee


Click Here to see a programme


Click Here for information on how to get to Swansea


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Organising Committee: Nick Dorey, Simon Hands, Tim Hollowood, Prem Kumar, Graham Shore

The conference is co-sponsored by PPARC, EPSRC,

the London Mathematical Society,

and by the Mathematical and Theoretical and High Energy Particle Physics groups of the

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