National Workshop on String Theory

                                  List of  Speakers and Titles

Abhishek Agarwal ( Rochester University): Free entropy and the Dijkgraaf-Vafa Conjecture

Anirban Basu: On  (0,2) Duality

Pravina Borhade ( IIT Mumbai):  U(N) Frame Links, Three Manifold Invariants and Topological Strings

B. Chandrasekhar ( IOP Bhubaneswar): D-Branes in p-p Wave Light Cone String Field Theory

Avinash Dhar  ( TIFR Mumbai): Quantized Strings in Ads_5 x S_5 at Small Radius

Debashis Ghoshal  ( HRI Allahabad): Non-Commutative p Tachyons

Lars Goerlich  (TIFR, Mumbai): N=1 and Non-Supersymmetric Open String Theories

Rajesh Gopakumar ( HRI Allahabad): Review of Matrix Models.

Suresh Govindarajan ( IIT Chennai):  D-branes on Calabi-Yau-II

Norihiro Iizuka (TIFR), Mumbai): Holographic Description of Quantum Black Holes and Area Entropy

Alok Kumar ( IOP Bhubaneswar):

K. Narayan ( Duke University): TBA

Swapna Mahapatra ( Utkal University):  de Sitter Vaccua from Gauged Supergravities

Gautam Mandal: Recent Developments in c=1 Matrix Models

Shiraz Minwalla ( Harvard University): Review of Gauge Gravity Correspondence

K Madhu (IIT Chennai): Alpha prime corrections to Special Lagrangian Conditions

Sudipta Mukherji ( IOP Bhubaneswar): Cardy-Verlinde Formula and Holography

Sunil Mukhi ( TIFR Mumbai): Comments on Tachyon Effective Action

Partha Mukhopadhyay ( Kentucky University):

Sudhakar Panda ( HRI Allahabad): TBA

Balram Rai ( CTS, IISc, Bangalore): Space-time Singularity Penrose Limit and Gauge-Gravity Duality

Koushik Ray ( IACS Calcutta): D-Branes on Calabi-Yau-I

Swarnendu Sarkar ( IMSc, Chennai): Closed String Tachyons on C/Z_N

Bala Sathiapalan ( IMSc Chennai): TBA

Ashoke Sen ( HRI Allahabad): Review of Tachyon Condensation

Gautam Sengupta*( IIT Kanpur): Godel Universes in String Theory

Harvendra Singh ( IIT Guwahati): Massive Gauged SUGRA Vaccuua and p-p Wave Limits

Aninda Sinha ( Cambridge University): On the Exact Open-Closed String Vertex in Plane Wave Light Cone String Field Theory

Prasanta Tripathy ( TIFR Mumbai): Calabi-Yau Compactifications with Fluxes

Sandip Trivedi ( TIFR Mumbai): Review of De-Sitter Supergravity and String Vaccuua

TBA: To be announced