International Solvay Institutes

                                                                                                                   

First Solvay Workshop

Higher Spin Gauge Theories

May 12-14, 2004

The aim of the workshop is to combine introductory pedagogical lectures and mini-courses with talks on recent research topics.

Location: Salle Solvay, 5 th floor, building NO, Campus Plaine, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles

Local organizing committee: R. Argurio, G. Barnich, G. Bonelli, M. Grigoriev, M. Henneaux, A. Sevrin

        M. Bianchi (Roma): Massive representations of hs(2,2|4) and holography

        M. Dubois-Violette (Orsay): d^N=0: Generalized homology, examples and applications

        C. Hull (London): Higher Spin Fields and Duality

        A. Kleinschmidt (Cambridge): Higher spin fields from indefinite Kac-Moody algebras

        A. Petkou (CERN): Holographic properties of Higher Spin Theories

        A. Sagnotti (Roma): An introduction to free higher-spin fields

        P. Sundell (Uppsala): Singletons, string bits and higher-spin gauge theory

        M. Vasiliev (Moscow): Nonlinear higher spin gauge theories in various dimensions

Program:

Contact: gbarnich(AT)ulb.ac.dot.be

Registration: isabelle.juif (AT)ulb.ac.be

Local information: directions and links to some hotels that we usually use for our visitors can be found under http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/ptm/directions/trouver.html . There will only be limited computer access.