Future Perspectives In String Theory, Strings '95 - Proceedings Of The Conference (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 13-18 March 1995)

The areas covered in this volume include: duality in string theory and supersymmetric gauge theories; phenomenological applications of string theory; strings in curved spacetime; quantum gravity; SUSY conformal field theories; QCD strings; aspects of mathematical physics, including: mirror symmetry, W-algebras, representation theory. Title Copyright Preface CONTENTS Curves of Marginal Stability in N = 2 Super-QCD Solution of the SL(2, R) String in Curved Spacetime T-Duality and the Type-II Superstring New Spacetime-Supersymmetric Methods for the Superstring Topological Reduction of 4D SYM to 2D a-Models The_Equivalence_between_the_Operator_Approach_and_the_Path_Integral_ Operator Algebra of the 4D W3 String On the Impossibility of a Large Radius Compactification in Realistic String Theories Duality and Braids in N = 2 Yang-Mills Theories Recent Developments in Fermionization and Superstring Model Building Phases of Mirror Symmetry The Generic World sheet Action of Irrational Conformal Field Theory BPS Saturated and Non-Extreme States in Abelian Kaluza-Klein Theory and Effective N = 4 Supersymmetric String Vacua Strings in Cosmological Spacetimes and their Back-Reaction Invariant Effective Actions and Cohomology Spacetime Properties of (1,0) String Vacua Supertraces in String Theory Coming to Terms with Strongly Coupled Strings Gravitational Dressing of Renormalization Group ~-Functions Large N in D > 2 S-Duality and H-Monopoles The New Physics of Strongly Coupled 2D Gravity S-Duality in N = 4 Yang-Mills Theories Boundary Effects in String Theory Duality, Enhanced Symmetry and "Massless Black Holes" States in the BRST Cohomology for G/H WZNW Models Covering the field of string theory, the topics in this volume include: duality in string theory and supersymmetric gauge theories; phenomenological applications of string theory; strings in curved spacetime; quantum gravity; SUSY conformal field theories; and QCD strings.