Strings/Gravity Invited Talks

• Amanda Peet (Toronto): Recent successes in string theory; singularity resolution and all that.

• Juan Maldacena (IAS): Quantum gravity as an ordinary gauge theory.

• Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State): Quantum geometry and its applications: recent advances.

• Fay Dowker (London): Causal sets as the deep structure of the universe.

• Jan Ambjorn (Neils Bohr Institute): Lorentzian quantum gravity via dynamical triangulations.