Quantum Aspects of Gauge Theories, Supersymmetry and Unification

to M theory and AdS/CFT duality.- Interconnections between type II superstrings, M theory and N=4 Yang-Mills.- Supermembranes and super matrix models.- Black holes, branes and superconformal symmetry.- Old and new approaches to non-perturbative gauge dynamics.- Strings, matrices and black holes.- Orbifolds of AdS 3 and fixpoints of the CFT.- Holography and the Weyl anomaly.- The QCD string and generalized wave equation.- On supergravity duals of N=1 SCFT in four dimensions.- On (Multi-)Center branes and exact string vacua.- 2D Yang-Mills theory as a Matrix String theory.- Interacting strings in matrix string theory.- Graviton scattering in matrix theory and supergravity.- The Osp(8|4) singleton action from the super membrane.- Non-perturbative corrections in N=2 strings.- Brane actions and string dualities.- On heterotic/type I duality in d=8.- Near horizon supergravity superspace.- On higher order ?? corrections to black brane geometries.- D3-Brane dynamics and black holes.- The M five brane on a torus.- Branes and the WDVV equation.- Action for IIB supergravity in 10 dimensions.- U-duality and M-theory, an algebraic approach.- Supersymmetric 3-cycles for N=1 brane box models.- Duality in string cosmology.- Spin dependent D-brane interactions and scattering amplitudes in matrix theory.- Prescriptions for off-shell bosonic string amplitudes.- On Wilson loops and Q -potentials from the AdS/CFT relation at T?0.- Topological strings, contact terms and the holomorphic anomaly.- Equivalence of geometric engineering and Hanany-Witten.- Ramond-ramond (boundary) states.- An effective supergravity for the thermal phases of N=4 strings.- Universal N=4 non-perturbative thermal instabilities; the high-T string phases.- Corrections to macroscopic supersymmetric black-holeentropy.