The format of activities will be relaxed, themed discussion sessions. Each will be introduced by a short pedagogical overview talk of about 35 to 45 minutes duration leading into animated discussion with lots(!?) of audience participation.
Discussion Sessions will be held in D118 in the Dawson Building. The Dawson building is located near the Main Library and Department of Mathematical Sciences on the Science Site (number 13 on the University's map of Durham).
| Friday | Saturday | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration in D117 Dawson Building | |
| 9:30-11:00 | Shiraz Minwalla "pp-Waves and String Duals of Gauge Theory" |
Jeff Harvey "Closed String Tachyon Condensation" |
| 11:00-11:30 | COFFEE | COFFEE |
| 11:30-13:00 | Rob Myers "S-branes" |
Don Marolf "Cosmology: A Challenge for String Theory?" |
| 13:00-14:30 | LUNCH | LUNCH |
| 14:30-16:00 | Nick Warner "Holographic RG Flows" |
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| 16:00-16:30 | TEA | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Dave Morrison "M-Theory Compactifications and Manifolds of G2 Holonomy" |
In addition there will be a number of associated seminars by visitors in the week leading up to the PreStrings meeting. These will all be in the Department of Mathematical Sciences in CM221
"On d=4,5,6 Vacua with 8 Supercharges"
"Quantum black holes as holograms"
"Farewell to Floating Boxes"