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| MONDAY, 24 August | ||
| 10.45 – 11.00 | Welcome Remarks | C. L. Folt, UNC Chancellor |
| 11.00 – 11.45 | "Backreaction and Conform Symmetry" | G. 't Hooft |
| 11.45 - 12.45 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| 12.45 – 14.15 | Lunch at Canteen | |
| 14.15 – 15.00 | "Backreaction of Hawking Radiation and Singularities" | L. Mersini-Houghton |
| 15.00 – 16.00 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| 16.00 – 16.45 | "Physical interpretation of the semi-classical energy-momentum tensor in a Schwarzschild background" | J. Bardeen |
| 16.45 – 17.45 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| 19.00 | Public Lecture by S. Hawking "Quantum Black Holes", at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre (directions). | |
| TUESDAY, 25 August | ||
| 11.00 – 11.45 | "Gravity = (Yang-Mills)^2" | M. Duff |
| 11.45 – 12.45 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| 12.45 – 14.15 | Lunch at Canteen | |
| 14.15 – 15.00 | "Black Hole Memory" | M. J. Perry |
| 15.00 – 16.00 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| 16.00 – 16.45 | "Black holes and other solutions in higher derivative gravity" | K. Stelle |
| 16.45 – 18.00 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| WEDNESDAY, 26 August | ||
| 11.00 – 11.45 | "Black Holes as Open Quantum Systems" | C. Kiefer |
| 11.45 - 12.45 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| 12.45 - 14.15 | Lunch at Canteen | |
| 14.15 - 15.00 | "Particle Creation from vacuum in gravitational expansion and collapse" | L. Parker |
| 15.00 - 16.00 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | "Gravitational Condensate Stars or What's the (Quantum) Matter with Black Holes?" | E. Mottola |
| 16.45 – 17.45 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| 19.30 | Conference Banquet and Concert at the Gold Foyer of the Royal Opera (directions). | |
| THURSDAY, 27 August | ||
| 11.00 – 11.45 | "Did the chicken survive the firewall" | J. Louko |
| 11.45 – 12.45 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| 12.45 – 14.15 | Lunch at Canteen | |
| 14.15 – 15.00 | "A new quantum black hole phenomenology" | F. Vidotto |
| 15. 00 – 16.00 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| 16.00 – 16.45 | "Black to white hole tunnelling: before or after Hawking radiation?" | C. Rovelli |
| 16.45 – 18.00 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| FRIDAY, 28 August | ||
| 11.00 - 11.45 | "Quantum Damping or Decoherence: Lessons from Molecules, Neutrinos, and Quantum Logic Devices" | L. Stodolsky |
| 11.45 – 12.45 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| 12.45 – 14.15 | Lunch at Canteen | |
| 14.15 – 15.00 | "TBA" | Ch. Misner |
| 15.00 – 16.00 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| 16.00 – 16.45 | "The Generalised Second Law and the unity of physics" | F. Dowker |
| 16.45 – 18.00 | Discussion Session and Coffee | |
| SATURDAY, 29 August | ||
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Group Discussion: Summary of Results and Open Questions | |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Status Report | S. Hawking [TBC] |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Conclusions | P. Davies |
In other words, perhapsConcluding with:D=11 supergravity together with its BPS configurations: plane wave, membrane, fivebrane, KK monopole and theD=11 embedding of the Type II eightbraneare are all there is toM -theory and that we need look no further for new degrees of freedom. (p. 329)
future historians may judge the period 1984-95 as a time when theorists were like boys playing by the sea shore, and diverting themselves with the smoother pebbles or prettier shells of perturbative ten-dimensiorial superstrings while the great ocean of non-perturbative eleven-dimensional M-theory lay all undiscovered before them. (p.330)Compare to the situation 20 years later as in