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Strings, branes, and gravity : TASI 99 : Boulder, Colorado, USA, 31 May-25 June 1999 / TASI 99 Subtitle on t.p. verso: Lecture notes of TASI 99 editors, Jeffrey Harvey, Shamit Kachru, Eva Silverstein. - Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2001. - vii, 933 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

TASI lectures on branes, black holes and anti-De Sitter space / D-brane primer / TASI lectures on black holes in string theory / TASI lectures : cosmology for string theorists / TASI lectures on matrix theory / TASI lectures M theory phenomenology / TASI lectures : introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence / TASI lectures on compactification and duality / Compactification, Geometry and duality : N=2 / TASI lectures on non-BPS D-brane systems / Lectures on warped compactifications and stringy brane constructions / TASI lectures on the holographic principle / M.J. Duff -- Clifford V. Johnson -- Amanda W. Peet -- Sean M. Carroll -- Tom Banks -- Michael Dine -- Igor R. Klebanov -- David R. Morrison -- Paul S. Aspinwall -- John H. Schwarz -- Shamit Kachru -- Daniela Bigatti and Leonard Susskind.

ISBN: 9810247745

LCCN: 2002277192

Subjects--Topical Terms:
String models--Congresses.
Gravity--Congresses.
Compactifications--Congresses.
Duality (Nuclear physics)--Congresses.
Black holes (Astronomy)--Congresses.
Supersymmetry--Congresses.
Branes--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: QC794.6.S85 / T48 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 530.14