01/10/2000
Some 100 participants will attend the ICTP Latin American
String School to be held in Mexico City from 9-27 October. Subtitled
"From the Very Basics to the Frontiers of Research,"
the activity is being hosted locally by the Mexican Academy of
Sciences
El Colegio Nacional. Lecturers include ICTP staff
scientists Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi, Kumar Narain, Matthias Blau
and George Thompson, and ICTP Prize recipient Fernando Quevedo.
Topics will range from supersymmetry to D-branes to black hole
physics. The school is designed as a primer for physicists, mathematicians
and graduate students with a basic knowledge of field theory and
general relativity.
