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Supersymmetry effective actions in four dimensions, P.C. Argyres supermembranes and M(atrix) Theory, H. Nicolai and R. Helling etudes on D-branes, C.V. Johnson two lectures on D-geometry and noncommutative geometry, M.R. Douglas two lectures on AdS/CFT correspondence, M.R. Douglas and S. Randjbar-Daemi phenomenological aspects of string theory, J. Louis conformal symmetry on world volumes of branes, P. Claus et al non-supersymmetric strings, S. Kachru self-dual tensors in six-dimensional supergravity, F. Riccioni and A. Sagnotti Euclidean-signature supergravities and dualities, E. Cremmer et al AdS gravity and field theories at fixpoints, K. Behrndt superembeddings, P.S. Howe on some features of the M-5-brane, D. Sorokin brane dynamics and four-dimensional quantum field theory, N.D. Lambert and P. West anti-de-Sitter space, branes, singletons, superconformal field theories and all that, M.J. Duff aspects of the M-5 brane, E. Sezgin and P. Sundell matrix theory black holes and the cross-Witten transition, L. Susskind domain walls and the universe, K.S. Stelle correlation functions of the global E8 symmetry currents in the heterotic 5-brane theory, M. Krogh on the construction of SL(2,Z) type IIB 5-branes, J.X. Lu and S. Roy on the (2,0) theory in six dimensions, M. Rozali the no-ghost theorem and strings on AdS3, J.M. Evans et al six-dimensional fixed points from Hanany-Witten setups, A. Karch and I. Brunner.