Dualities In Gauge And String Theories - Proceedings Of Apctp Winter School

Part 1 Lectures: supermembranes - an introduction, M.J. Duff; an introduction to p-branes, K.S. Stelle; notes on matrix strings and fivebranes, H. Verlinde et al; intersecting branes, J.P. Gauntlett; BPS bound states, supermembranes, and T-duality in M theory, J.G. Russo; D=6, N=1 string vacua and duality, L.E. Ibanez and A.M. Uranga; flat symplectic bundles of N-extended superravities, central charges and Black Hole entropy, S. Ferrera et al; Black Hole thermodynamics and string theory, R.S. Das. Part 2 Seminars: one-instanton calculations in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories, K. Ito; field theory on coadjoint orbit and self-dual Chern-Simons solitons, P. Oh; cohomological Yang-Mills theory in eight dimensions, H. Kanno et al; charged BTZ Black Hole as a global vortex in anti-de Sitter space-time - a bridge by duality, Y. Kim et al; tensionless gravitational string in D=6, N=1 heterotic string vacua, N. Kim et al; quantum ergoregion instability, G. Kang.