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2009-12-31T15:42:34Z

Kiritsis: Enterreed a reference to Kroitsis' book on string theory

see also [[Colloquia]], [[Conformal Field Theory]]
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===books===

[http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8456.html '''String Theory in a nutshell'''] 
by Elias Kiritsis, (Princeton University Press, 2007, [http://users.physics.uoc.gr/~kiritsis/string-book/index.html Errata]) 
This book is an up to date presentation of the main parts of modern string theory, targeting
specialized students and postdocs entering or working in string theory.
It contains also a large set of problems, as well as chapters on black-hole microstate counting, matrix models and an extendent
exposition of the AdS/CFT correspondence.

'''String Theory and M-Theory''' 
by Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker and John Schwarz (CUP, 2006)

'''A First Course in String Theory''' 
by Barton Zwiebach, (CUP, 2003) 
This book is intended for the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. No familiarity with quantum field theory is assumed (although Zwiebach does assume a working knowledge of quantum mechanics). It focuses on the study of single
strings and their interactions, which can be understood in some
detail. Of necessity, however, it is impossible to address many
advanced topics.

'''String Theory''' 
'''Volume 1: An Introduction to the Bosonic String''' 
'''Volume 2: Superstring Theory and Beyond''' 
by Joe Polchinski (two volumes, CUP, 1998, [http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/~joep/errata.html errata]) 
This book addresses the discoveries of the
superstring revolutions of the early to mid 1990s, which mark the
beginnings of modern string theory. Volume 1 quantises the
bosonic string and uses this setting to introduce T-duality and
D-branes without the complications of fermions. The first three chapters of volume 2
introduce superstrings, but quickly move beyond. The rest of
the second book provides an introduction to nearly all modern string
topics pre-dating the AdS/CFT duality. In particular, it includes D-branes,
Orbifolds, Black Hole Entropy, and Mirror symmetry. 
Some of the errata were corrected in the reprinting in 2000. 
[http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4408 A solution manual for Polchinski's "String Theory"] 
by Matthew Headrick (0812.4408 [hep-th], 114 pages)

'''Superstring Theory''' 
'''Volume 1: Introduction''' 
'''Volume 2: Loop Amplitudes, Anomalies and Phenomenology''' 
by Michael Green, John Schwarz and Edward Witten (two volumes, CUP, 1988) 
Volume 1 is the first of a classic two-volume string text by founders in the field. Though there are now many more modern
texts, it containing many details that more recent texts
must skim through to discuss modern topics. Volume 1 is concerned mainly with the free string, though it treats both bosonic and supersymmetric versions. Volume 2 addresses the details of loop
calculations, but also discusses low-energy effective theories (in particular, supergravity) and compactifications (especially on Calabi-Yau manifolds).

'''Supersymmetry and String Theory: Beyond the Standard Model''' 
by Michael Dine (CUP, 2007)

'''Gravity and Strings''' 
by Tomás Ortín (CUP, 2004)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709062 Introduction to Superstring Theory] 
by E. Kiritsis (Leuven University Press, 1998, hep-th/9709062, 244 pages, 22 figures) 
Also available from the arXiv. Kiritsis provides a pedagogical introduction starting with the point particle and the bosonic string, and
then proceeds through conformal
field theory and the superstring. Advanced topics treated include T- duality, anomalies, compactification and supersymmetry breaking,
loop corrections, and non-perturbative dualities.

'''Lectures on String Theory''' 
by D. Lüst and S. Theisen (Springer-Verlag, 1989) 
This very useful text features a short route to the superstring and includes an excellent treatment of the heterotic string.

'''Quantum Field Theory of Point Particles and Strings''' 
by B. Hatfield (Perseus Publishing, 1998) 
An updated version of Hatfield's 1992 book, the first half quickly reviews quantum field theory while the second introduces the very basics of strings.

'''Gauge fields and Strings''' 
by A. M. Polyakov (Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987) 
This classic work uses a detailed treatment of quantum field theory in terms of first-quantized particles to make a natural transition to the first quantized string. Details of path-integral measures and other fundamentals are well-presented.

'''Introduction to Superstrings and M-Theory''' 
by M. Kaku (Springer Verlag, 1999) 
This updated version of an earlier text begins with the basics and, after some development, addresses advanced topics such as compactifications and M-theory. As a one-volume text, it cannot be comprehensive and, as a result, has a rather light discussion of D-branes.

'''Strings, Conformal Fields, and M-Theory''' 
by M. Kaku (Springer Verlag, 2000) 
The intent of this text is to build on ''Introduction to Superstrings and M-theory'', addressing a number of more modern topics and illustrating the relationship to a broad range of related topics.

===reviews===
[http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/string.html DAMTP Part III 2009 Lectures on String Theory] 
by David Tong

[http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1036 String Theory: A Framework for Quantum Gravity and Various Applications] 
by Spenta R. Wadia (0809.1036, 38 pages, 5 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0663 Introductory Lectures on String Theory] 
by A.A. Tseytlin (0808.0663, 38 pages, 21 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0605105 Superstring theories] 
by Constantin Bachas, Jan Troost (physics/0605105, 12 pages, 5 figures) 
concise review for Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics (Elsevier, 2006)

[http://www.math.ias.edu/QFT/spring/ String Theory] 
by Eric D'Hoker (downloadable from the [http://www.math.ias.edu/QFT/spring/ Quantum Field Theory program at IAS: Spring Term 1997])

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703136 Les Houches Lectures on Fields, Strings and Duality] 
by R. Dijkgraaf (hep-th/9703136, 152 pages, 31 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9708130 Introduction to Non-perturbative String Theory] 
by Elias Kiritsis (hep-th/9708130, 60 pages, 4 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9810240 String Primer] 
by E. Alvarez and P. Meessen (hep-th/9810240, 87 pages, 4 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612254 TASI Lectures on Perturbative String Theories] 
by Hirosi Ooguri, Zheng Yin (hep-th/9612254, 80 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9411028 What is String Theory?] 
by Joseph Polchinski (hep-th/9411028, 153 pages, 30 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0302147 An Introduction to the Covariant Quantization of Superstrings] 
by P.A. Grassi, G. Policastro, P. van Nieuwenhuizen (hep-th/0302147, 23 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0211111 Lectures on Two-Loop Superstrings] 
by Eric D'Hoker, D.H. Phong (hep-th/0211111, 37 pages, 3 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209059 ICTP Lectures on Covariant Quantization of the Superstring] 
by Nathan Berkovits (hep-th/0209059, 43 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0204089 Open Strings] 
by Carlo Angelantonj, Augusto Sagnotti (hep-th/0204089, 156 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201209 TASI Lectures on Perturbative String Theory and Ramond-Ramond Flux] 
by L. Dolan (hep-th/0201209, 39 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9910156 An Introduction to Conformal Field Theory] 
by Matthias R Gaberdiel (hep-th/9910156, 69 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9604123 A New Description of the Superstring] 
by Nathan Berkovits (hep-th/9604123)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709062 Introduction to Superstring Theory] 
by E. Kiritsis (hep-th/9709062, 244 pages, 22 figures) 
Also available as a [[#book|book]]. Kiritsis provides a pedagogical introduction starting with the point particle and the bosonic string, and
then proceeds through conformal
field theory and the superstring. Advanced topics treated include T- duality, anomalies, compactification and supersymmetry breaking,
loop corrections, and non-perturbative dualities.

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9802051 An Introduction to Non-perturbative String Theory] 
by Ashoke Sen (hep-th/9802051, 129 pages, 22 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0008017 Introduction to Superstring Theory] 
by John H. Schwarz (hep-ex/0008017, 44 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0110055 Strings, Branes and Extra Dimensions] 
by Stefan Forste (hep-th/0110055, 238 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0212114 String Theory or Field Theory?] 
by A. Marshakov (hep-th/0212114, 56 pages, 18 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210224 String theory: an update] 
by Jan de Boer (hep-th/0210224, 20 pages, 2 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0207249 Introduction to String Theory] 
by Thomas Mohaupt (hep-th/0207249, 78 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0207142 BUSSTEPP Lectures on String Theory] 
by Richard J. Szabo (hep-th/0207142, 90 pages, 24 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0205036 Introduction to M-theory for relativists and cosmologists] 
by Nobuyoshi Ohta (gr-qc/0205036, 28 pages, 7 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0010046 Topics on Strings, Branes and Calabi-Yau Compactifications] 
by Hugo Garcia-Compean, Oscar Loaiza-Brito (hep-th/0010046, 50 pages, no figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0003019 Lectures on Strings, D-branes and Gauge Theories] 
by Hugo Garcia-Compean, Oscar Loaiza-Brito (hep-th/0003019, 38 pages, no figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9906108 An introduction to perturbative and non-perturbative string theory] 
by Ignatios Antoniadis, Guillaume Ovarlez (hep-th/9906108, 17 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811101 Supergravity, Brane Dynamics and String Duality] 
by P. West (hep-th/9811101, 109 pages, 2 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811019 Introduction to M Theory] 
by Miao Li (hep-th/9811019, 76 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9810240 String Primer] 
by E. Alvarez, P. Meessen (hep-th/9810240, 87 pages, 4 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702201 Lectures on Strings and Dualities] 
by Cumrun Vafa (hep-th/9702201, 53 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711102 Fields, Strings and Branes] 
by C. Gomez, R. Hernandez (hep-th/9711102, 176 pages, 6 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703136 Les Houches Lectures on Fields, Strings and Duality] 
by R. Dijkgraaf (hep-th/9703136, 152 pages, 31 figures)

[http://gesalerico.ft.uam.es/paginaspersonales/angeluranga/firstpage.html Introduction to String Theory] 
by Angel Uranga (Graduate Course in String Theory, 528 pages)

[http://www.strings.ph.qmul.ac.uk/~busstepp/lectures/mukhi/lectures/busstepp.pdf String Theory] 
by Sunil Mukhi (BUSSTEPP 2003 Lectures, 147 pages). Downloadable from [http://www.strings.ph.qmul.ac.uk/~busstepp/ BUSSTEPP 2003 Website]

[http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0704.0101 The birth of string theory] 
by Paolo Di Vecchia (0704.0101, 60 pages) 
Covers developments that in the years 1968 to 1974 led from the Veneziano model to the bosonic string.

Institutions

2009-12-31T15:16:52Z

Kiritsis: Inserted a new country an institution (Crete)

Please note that this list is a work in progress. If you see that an institution where string theory is studied is missing, then add it.

===Austria===
[http://itp.tuwien.ac.at/ Institute for Theoretical Physics - Vienna University of Technology] 

===Canada===
[http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/ Perimeter Institute] 
Waterloo

===France===
[http://www.lpt.ens.fr/?lang=en LPT - École Normale Supérieure] 
Paris

[http://string.lpthe.jussieu.fr/today.pl?lang=eng String Theory in Greater Paris]

===Germany===
[http://www.desy.de/desy-th/strings/index.html Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)] 
Hamburg

[http://qft.physik.hu-berlin.de/ Humboldt-Universität] 
Berlin

[http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/lsluest/index.html Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Arnold Sommerfeld Center)] 
Munich

[http://www.aei-potsdam.mpg.de/english/contemporaryIssues/home/index.html Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert Einstein Institut)] 
Potsdam

[http://wwwth.mppmu.mpg.de/webdocs/eng/sst.html Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)] 
Munich

[http://www.physik.tu-muenchen.de/lehrstuehle/T30e/ Technischen Universität München (TUM)] 
Munich

[http://www.th.physik.uni-bonn.de/Groups/ Universität Bonn (Bethe Center)] 
Bonn

[http://unith.desy.de/research/strings/ Universität Hamburg] 
Hamburg

[http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~hebecker/bsm.html Universität Heidelberg] 
Heidelberg

===Greece===
[http://hep.physics.uoc.gr/ University of Crete] 
Heraklion

===India===
[http://www.hri.res.in/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute] 
Allahabad

[http://www.iitk.ac.in/phy/hephome/index.html Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur] 
Kanpur

[http://www.physics.iitm.ac.in/~labs/dynamical/people.html Indian Institute of Technology - Madras] 
Chennai

[http://www.imsc.res.in/physweb/physics.html Institute of Mathematical Sciences] 
Chennai

[http://www.iopb.res.in/~mukherji/highenergy.html Institute of Physics] 
Bhubaneswar

[http://www.saha.ac.in/theory/www/ Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics] 
Kolkata

[http://theory.tifr.res.in/ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research] 
Mumbai

===Iran===
[http://www.ipm.ac.ir/ IPM] 
Tehran

===Ireland===
[http://www.stp.dias.ie/ Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies]

[http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~string/ Trinity College Dublin]

===The Netherlands===
[http://www.science.uva.nl/research/itf/strings/strings.html University of Amsterdam]

[http://strings.fmns.rug.nl/ University of Groningen]

[http://www1.phys.uu.nl/wwwitf/ Utrecht University]

===Russia===
[http://www.itep.ru/ Insitute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics] 
Moscow

===South Africa===
[http://neo.phys.wits.ac.za/main.html University of the Witwatersrand] 
Johannesburg

[http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/~jeff/Research/Strings_at_UCT.html University of Cape Town] 
Cape Town

===Sweden===
[http://www.chalmers.se/fp/EN/research/elementary-particle/string-theory Chalmers] 
Göteborg

[http://www.teorfys.uu.se/ Uppsala]

===Switzerland===
[http://ph-dep-th.web.cern.ch/ph-dep-th/ CERN]
Geneva

[http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/research/mathphys Zurich]

===UK===
[http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/hep/ Cambridge] 

[http://www.city.ac.uk/sems/mathematics/research/algebra/index.html City University] 
London

[http://www.cpt.dur.ac.uk/ Durham]

[http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/EMPG/ Edinburgh]

[http://theory.ic.ac.uk/ Imperial] 
London

[http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/ King's College] 
London

[http://www.liv.ac.uk/maths/TheorPhys/index.html Liverpool]

[http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/research/particles/index.shtml Nottingham]

[http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/ Oxford]

[http://www.strings.ph.qmul.ac.uk/ Queen Mary] 
London

[http://www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk/ Southampton]

[http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/particle-theory/ Sussex]

===US===
[http://www.physics.brown.edu/ Brown University] 
Providence, Rhode Island

[http://www.pma.caltech.edu/GSR/ California Institute of Technology] 
Pasadena

[http://www.iscap.columbia.edu/ Columbia University] 
New York

[http://www.physics.cornell.edu/ Cornell University] 
New York

[http://www.phy.duke.edu/ Duke University]

[http://www.physics.harvard.edu/ Harvard University]

[http://mit.edu/physics/ Massacheusetts Institute of Technology]

[http://www.physics.nyu.edu/ New York University]

[http://www.phys.psu.edu/ Pennsylvania State University]

[http://physics.princeton.edu/ Princeton University]

[http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/het/ Rutgers University] 
New Jersey

[http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/index.shtml Stanford University]

[http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/physics/grad_study.htm SUNY at Stony Brook]

[http://www.ph.utexas.edu/dept/grad/grad.html University of Texas at Austin]

[http://www.physics.tamu.edu/ Texas A&M University]

[http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/ University of California at Berkeley]

[http://www.physics.ucla.edu/graduate/gradprog.html University of California at Los Angeles]

[http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/Education/Graduate/GradEdu.phtml University of California at Santa Barbara]

[http://physics.uchicago.edu/ University of Chicago]

[http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/guide/ University of Pennsylvania]

[http://physics.usc.edu/Graduate/ University of Southern California]

[http://www.yale.edu/physics/ Yale University]

Conferences

2009-12-31T14:23:13Z

Kiritsis: Two new conferences inserted

[http://hep.physics.uoc.gr/conf09/ Crete Conference on gauge theories and the structure of spacetime] 
Kolymbari, Crete, 11-18 September 2010

[http://hep.physics.uoc.gr/cosmo09/index.html Crete Workshop on Frontiers of Cosmology] 
Heraklion, Crete, 28 March-5 April 2010

[http://www.kitpc.ac.cn/program.jsp?id=PR20101011 AdS/CFT and Novel Approaches to Hadron and Heavy Ion Physics] 
Beijing (China), 11 October - 3 December 2010

[http://ggi-www.fi.infn.it/index.php?p=events.inc&id=55 AdS4/CFT3 and the Holographic States of Matter] 
Florence (Italy), 30 August - 5 November 2010

[http://susy10.uni-bonn.de/ SUSY 2010] 
Bonn (Germany), 23-28 August 2010

[http://quark.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~ads/ AdS Holography and the Quark-Gluon Plasma] 
ESI Vienna (Austria), 2 August - 29 October 2010

[http://www.universe-cluster.de/sfp10 International School On Strings And Fundamental Physics 2010] 
Munich (Germany), 25 July - 6 August 2010

[http://www.ichep2010.fr/ International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) 2010] 
Paris (France), 21-28 July 2010

[http://www.sns.ias.edu/pitp/ Aspects of Supersymmetry] 
Princeton (USA), 19-30 July 2010

[http://hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~kreuzer/TSTMP.html Topological Strings, Modularity and non-perturbative Physics] 
Vienna (Austria), 19-28 July 2010

[http://claymath.org/programs/summer_school/2010/ Probability and Statistical Physics in Two and more Dimensions] 
Buzios (Brazil), 11 July - 7 August 2010

[http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~kbenakli/stringpheno/ String Phenomenology 2010] 
Paris (France), 5-9 July 2010

[http://www.gr19.com/ 19th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation] 
Mexico City (Mexico), 5 July - 9 July 2010

[http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~pasi/ PASI Summer School on Quantum Gravity] 
Morelia (Mexico), 23 June - 3 July 2010

[http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/cargese/ Cargèse School - String Theory: Formal Developments and Applications] 
Cargèse (France), 21 June - 3 July 2010

[http://hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~kreuzer/TSTMP.html D-branes, Effective Actions and Homological Mirror Symmetry] 
Vienna (Austria), 21-30 June 2010

[http://quarks.inr.ac.ru/ QUARKS-2010] 
Kolomna (Russia), 30 May - 5 June 2010

[http://physics.ipm.ac.ir/conferences/iss2010/ IPM String School and Workshop] 
Tehran (Iran), 9-15 April 2010

[http://cdsagenda5.ictp.it/full_display.php?ida=a09137 Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics] 
Trieste (Italy), 22-30 March 2010

[http://mitchell.physics.tamu.edu/Conference/string2010/index Strings 2010] 
College Station (Texas, USA), 15-19 March 2010

[http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pcts/adscft/adscft.html AdS/CFT: New Developments and Applications] 
Princeton (USA), 11-12 March 2010

[http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/auto/?id=972 Strings at the LHC and in the Early Universe] 
Santa Barbara (USA), 8 March - 14 May 2010

[http://www.desy.de/uni-th/stringth/bad-honnef/ Beyond the Standard Model] 
Bad Honnef (Germany), 8 - 11 March 2010

[http://www.itep.ru/ws/2010/?info International Moscow School of Physics: Particle Physics] 
Moscow (Russia), 13-20 February 2010

[http://wwwth.mppmu.mpg.de/members/blumenha/gutworkshop/index.html Workshop GUTs and Strings] 
Munich (Germany), 10-12 February 2010

[http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~ooguri/CMP-HEP/CMP-HEP.htm IPMU Focus Week: Condensed Matter Physics Meets High Energy Physics] 
IPMU, the University of Tokyo (Japan), 8-12 February 2010

[http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=58217 CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings, and Gauge Theory 2010] 
Geneva (Switzerland), 25-29 January 2010

[http://slavnov70.mi.ras.ru/ Gauge Fields. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Conference dedicated to the 70-th anniversary of Andrei Alekseevich Slavnov] 
Moscow (Russia), 19-24 January 2010

[http://www.icts.res.in/program/asian4 Fourth Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology] 
Mahabaleshwar (India), 11 - 20 January 2010

[http://www.sissa.it/he/avogadro V Avogadro Meeting on Strings, Supergravity and Gauge theories] 
Trieste (Italy), 21-23 December 2009

[http://pasc.ist.utl.pt/winterschool2009/ PASC Winter School] 
Sesimbra (Portugal), 19-21 December 2009

[http://thep.housing.rug.nl/nordic24 24th Nordic Network Meeting on Fields, Strings and Branes] 
Groningen (the Netherlands), 3 December 2009 - 5 December 2009

[http://www.asc.physik.lmu.de/activities/workshops/200911_30/index.html Workshop on Interfaces and Wall-crossings] 
Munich (Germany), 30 November - 4 December 2009

[http://www.lpt.ens.fr/Conferences/Paris2009/index.html AdS/CFT: strongly coupled systems and exact results] 
Paris (France), 26-27 November 2009

[http://ggi-www.fi.infn.it//index.php?p=events.inc&id=61 LACES 2009 - Lezioni Avanzate di Campi E Stringhe] 
Florence (Italy), 23 November - 11 December 2009

[http://indico.in2p3.fr/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1886 Facets of Integrability] 
Gif-sur-Yvette (France), 5-7 November 2009

[http://alzt.tau.ac.il/~ibtisam/minerva_sympo09.html Experiment Confronts String Theory] 
Berlin (Germany), 12-15 October 2009

[http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~strings/MMG/ Matrix Models and Geometry] 
Lisbon (Portugal), 5 October - 20 December 2009

[http://www.desy.de/uni-th/stringth/SSK/ String-Steilkurs - Part II: Advanced topics in String Theory] 
Potsdam (Germany), 28 September - 2 October 2009

[http://www.physics.ntua.gr/cosmo09/ Fifth Aegean Summer School - From gravity to thermal gauge theories: The AdS/CFT correspondence] 
Adamas (Milos Island/Greece), 21-26 September 2009

[http://people.sissa.it/~bruzzo/wagp09/index.htm Workshop on Algebraic Geometry and Physics] 
Maresias (Brazil), 14-18 September 2009

[http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/mccqg/ First Mediterranean Conference on Classical and Quantum Gravity] 
Kolymbari (Crete/Greece), 14-18 September 2009

[http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/qg/CorfuSS.html Second School on Quantum Gravity and Quantum Geometry] 
Corfu (Greece), 13-20 September 2009

[http://www-irma.u-strasbg.fr/article744.html?lang=en Quantum topology and Chern-Simons theory] 
Strasbourg (France), 10-12 September 2009

[http://www.phys.ethz.ch/~swood/stringworkshop/index.html 15-th European Workshop on String Theory] 
Zurich (Switzerland), 7-11 September 2009

[http://www.physics.ntua.gr/corfu2009/ School and Workshop on Cosmology and Strings] 
Corfu (Greece), 6-13 September 2009

[http://www.asc.physik.lmu.de/activities/workshops/200909_2-7/ Workshop on the Fluid-Gravity Correspondence] 
Munich (Germany), 2-7 September 2009

[http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/saalburg/ Summer School for Graduate Students: Foundations and New Methods in Theoretical Physics] 
Wolfersdorf (Germany), 31 August - 11 September 2009

[http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/mohrdieck/summerschool.html BPS state counting, stability structures and derived algebraic geometry] 
Hamburg (Germany), 31 August - 4 September 2009

[http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/ptm/pmif/Rencontres/ModaveV.html Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics] 
Modave (Belgium), 17-21 August 2009

[https://indico.nbi.ku.dk/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=71 Hidden Structures in Field Theory Amplitudes 2009] 
Copenhagen (Denmark) 12-14 August 2009

[http://www.icmp09.com/ XVI International Congress on Mathematical Physics] 
Prague (Czech Republic), 3-8 August 2009

[http://www.loops09.org/ Loops '09] 
Beijing (China), 2-7 August 2009

[http://www.aspenphys.org/documents/program/summer09.html Unity of String Theory] 
Aspen (USA), 26 July - 16 August 2009

[http://www.loops09.org/school.htm The BNU International Summer School on Quantum Gravity] 
Beijing (China), 26 July -1 August 2009

[http://www.pa.uky.edu/qts6/ Sixth International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries (QTS6)] 
Lexington (Kentucky/USA), 20-25 July 2009

[http://www.ifj.edu.pl/hep2009/index.php The 2009 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics] 
Krakow (Poland), 16-22 July 2009

[http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/en/welcome.htm 12th Marcel Grossman meeting] 
Paris (France), 12-18 July 2009

[http://pascos2009.desy.de/ 15th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 2009)] 
Hamburg (Germany), 6-10 July 2009

[http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/2009/tmp/index.html Symposium on Theoretical and Mathematical Physics] 
St.Petersburg (Russia), 3-8 July 2009

[http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/auto/?id=966 Quantum Criticality and the AdS/CFT Correspondence] 
Santa Barbara (California/USA), 29 June - 24 July 2009

[http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2009strings/ String Theory] 
Benasque (Spain), 29 June - 10 July 2009

[http://hep.physics.uoc.gr/mideast5/index.html 5th Crete Regional Meeting in String Theory] 
Kolymbari (Crete/Greece), 29 June - 6 July 2009

[http://www.ift.uni.wroc.pl/~planckscale/ The Planck Scale] 
Wroclaw (Poland), 29 June - 3 July 2009

[http://int09.aei.mpg.de Integrability in Gauge and String Theory] 
Potsdam (Germany), 29 June - 3 July 2009

[http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~strings/StringFest/ IST String Fest] 
Lisbon (Portugal), 29 June - 1 July 2009

[http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/summerschool09 Summer School on Particle Physics, Cosmology and Strings] 
Waterloo (Canada), 24 June -1 July 2009

[http://strings2009.roma2.infn.it/home.html Strings 2009] 
Rome (Italy), 22-26 June 2009

[http://cvgmt.sns.it/MPRicci-Workshop Geometric Flows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics] 
Pisa (Italy), 22-25 June 2009

[http://ipht.cea.fr/Meetings/Itzykson2009/ 14th Itzykson Meeting on String Theory: Recent Advances in String Theory] 
Saclay (France), 17-19 June 2009

[http://theo.inrne.bas.bg/~dobrev/LT-8.htm/ 8-th International Workshop "Lie Theory and Its Applications in Physics"] 
Varna (Bulgaria), 15-21 June 2009

[http://www.fc.up.pt/cfp/mathematica/index.html Integrability in gauge/string dualities (Mathematica Summer School on Theoretical Physics)] 
Porto (Portugal), 15-20 June 2009

[http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~sp09 String Phenomenology '09] 
Warsaw (Poland), 15-19 June 2009

[http://www-irma.u-strasbg.fr/article717.html?lang=en Representation theory in Mathematics and in Physics] 
Strasbourg (France), 11-13 June 2009

[http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/recursionstruct.html Recursion structures in topological string theory and enumerative geometry] 
American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto (USA), 8-12 June 2009

[http://nuweb.neu.edu/susy09/ Susy 09] 
Boston (USA), 5-10 June 2009

[http://nuweb.neu.edu/susy09/ Beyond the Standard Model Physics and LHC Signatures] 
Boston (USA), 2-4 June 2009

[http://th-www.if.uj.edu.pl/school/2009/ Non-perturbative Gravity and Quantum Chromodynamics] 
Zakopane (Poland), 31 May - 10 June 2009

[http://www.pd.infn.it/planck09/ Planck 09] 
Padova (Italy), 25-29 May 2009

[http://www.aspenphys.org/documents/program/summer09.html String Duals of Finite Temperature and Low-Dimensional Systems] 
Aspen (USA), 24 May - 14 June 2009

[http://member.ipmu.jp/domenico.orlando/FocusInvariants.html Focus Week on New Invariants and Wall Crossing] 
IPMU, Kashiwa (Japan), 18-22 May 2009

[http://www.phys.ethz.ch/~swood/lcft/index.html Workshop on Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory] 
Zurich (Switzerland), 7-9 May 2009

[https://indico.nbi.ku.dk/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=65 The 23rd Nordic Network Meeting on "Strings, Fields and Branes"] 
Copenhagen (Denmark), 16-18 April 2009

[http://sft09.mi.ras.ru/ Second International Conference on String Field Theory and Related Aspects] 
Moscow (Russia), 12-19 April 2009

[http://ggi-www.fi.infn.it/index.php?p=events.inc&id=25 New Perspectives in String Theory] 
Florence (Italy), 6 April - 19 June 2009

[http://www.umich.edu/~mctp/SciPrgPgs/events/2009/GLS08/index.html Great Lake String Conference ] 
Ann Arbor (Michigan/USA), 3-5 April 2009

[http://icft09.physics.ox.ac.uk/index.html 13th Annual UK meeting on Integrable Models, Conformal Field Theory and Related Topics] 
Oxford (UK), 3-4 April 2009

[http://plato.tp.ph.ic.ac.uk/conferences/duff-fest/ Supersymmetry, Branes and M-Theory: A Meeting in Celebration of Michael Duff's 60th Birthday] 
London (UK), 1-2 April 2009

[http://seenet-mtp.info/ssscp2009/ Spring School on Strings, Cosmology and Particles] 
Belgrade/Nis (Serbia), 31 March - 4 April 2009

[http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/Workshops/09/Amplitudes/ International workshop on gauge and string amplitudes] 
Durham (UK), 30 March - 3 April 2009

[http://mathphys.jacobs-university.de/Nordic/ Nordic String Theory Meeting] 
Bremen (Germany), 26-27 March 2009

[http://www.hit.ac.il/staff/kanzieper/yad8 Random matrices and integrability: From theory to applications] 
Yad Hashmona (Israel), 25-30 March 2009

[http://www-math.unice.fr/~patras/CargeseConference/index.html Algebraic and combinatorial structures in quantum field theory] 
Cargèse (Corsica, France), 23 March - 3 April 2009

[http://cdsagenda5.ictp.it/full_display.php?ida=a08147 Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics] 
Trieste (Italy), 23-31 March 2009

[http://www.desy.de/uni-th/stringth/bad-honnef/index.html Beyond the standard model] 
Bad Honnef (Germany), 15-19 March 2009

[http://www.ift.uam.es/workshops/AdScollective/ AdS Collective] 
Madrid (Spain), 16-19 February 2009

[http://www-conf.kek.jp/nasulec/ The 3rd Asian School of Particles, Strings and Cosmology] 
Nakazawa (Japan), 9-13 February 2009

[http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=37753 CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings and Gauge Theories] 
Geneva (Switzerland), 9-13 February 2009

[http://www.ceaden.cu/nurt/index.asp International Symposium on Nuclear & Related Techniques] 
Havana (Cuba), 9-12 February 2009

[http://www.sbf1.sbfisica.org.br/eventos/evjas-pc/xv/index_i.shtml Summer School in Particles and Fields] 
Campos do Jordão (Brazil), 12-23 January 2009

[http://www.itp.ac.cn/conference.php?cID=string08 3rd Asian Winter School on String Theory] 
ITP, Beijing (China), 7-17 January 2009

[http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/auto/?id=947 Fundamental Aspects of Superstring Theory] 
Santa Barbara (USA), 5 January - 29 May 2009

===links===
[[Past Conferences]]

[http://www.aei.mpg.de/~stefan/schools/ Schools and Conferences on String Theory and Related Topics] is a list maintained by Stefan Fredenhagen, who synchronises his list with this one.