Progress in String, Field and Particle Theory

The Non-Ads/ Non-CFT Correspondence,or Three Different Paths to Qcd.- PHYSICS OF LOW SCALE STRING MODELS.- THE HOLOGRAPHIC PRINCIPLE.- TWO TALKS ON A TENTATIVE THEORY OF LARGE DISTANCE PHYSICS.- D-BRANES ON THE CONIFOLD AND N = 1 GAUGE/GRAVITY DUALITIES.- DEFECTS, DECAY, AND DISSIPATED STATES.- SEIBERG-WITTEN PREPOTENTIAL, HIGHER CASIMIRS, AND FREE FERMIONS.- ASPECTS OF STRING MOTION IN TIME-DEPENDENT BACKGROUNDS.- ON THE GEOMETRY OF HIGHER-SPIN GAUGE FIELDS.- OPEN STRING CREATION BY S-BRANES.- Superconformal Boundary Conditions of the N=1 Nonlinear Sigma Model.- Backgrounds of 2d String Theory From Matrix Models.- The D3?D1-Brane Intersection And Monopole Scattering.- Holography and infrared Conformality in Two Dimensions.- Stabilization of D-Branes in General Group Manifolds.- Orientifolds and K-Theory.- A Resolution of the Cosmological Singularity with Orientifolds.- D-Branes and Orientifolds of S3 AND RP3.- Boundary States in Rational CFT.- Quasilocalization Monodromy in Brane World Models and on D-Branes.- S-Charges Monodromy Mechanish in N=2 SYM From Semiclassical Point of View.- Singular and Smooth Time-Dpendent Orbifolds.- Type IIB 7 Brane Solutions From Nine-Dimensional Domain Walls.- ??-Corrections to Flux Induced Potentials in Type IIB.- Noncommutative Multi-Solitons.- Symmetries in M Theory: Monsters, Inc..- Spacetime Differmorphisms and the Geodesic Approximation.- Gepner Model Boundary States From Geometry.- Instanton Eexpansions in 5D N = 2 Prepotentials.- Yang-Mills Theory from String Field Theory on D-Branes.- Magnetize Type I Orbifolds in Four Dimensions.- De Sitter Space in Non-Critical String Theory.- Ribbon Graphs and Surfaces.- A Mysterious Duality: M-Theory and Del Pezzo Surfaces.- Super Yang-Mills Matrix Iintegrals For an Arbitrary GaugeGroup.- On ADS3 String Theory.- Cubic Free Field Theory.- On the Covariant Quantization of Superstrings.- Open Strings and 3D Topological Field Theory.- Observer Complementarity in De Sitter Space.- Remarks on Surface States and Derivations in Stringfield Theory.- Multiple Trace Deformations, Boundary Conditions anmd ADS/CFT.- Moduli Stabilization From Fluxes.- Time Dependent Background From Nonsupersymmetric Strings.- The NS Five-Brane Partition Sum.- Gravitational Approach to Tachyon Matter.- D-Branes From N=2 Sigma Models.- List of Speakers.- List of Participants.