Summary

Contents: Supermembranes & Supersymmetric Matrix Models (H Nicolai); Introduction to D-Brane Technology (C Johnson); Matrix String Theory (H Verlinde); Substringy Geometry (M Douglas); Phenomenological Aspects of String Theory (J Louis); Branes & the AdS Super-gravity (S Randjbar-Daemi); F-Theory (B Greene); Gauge Theory & AdS Supergravity (S Kachru); Conformal Theory on Branes (R Kallosh); 4-D CFT & Strings on Orbifolds (S Kachru); Brane Solutions in M(atrix) Theory (S Randjbar-Daemi); Some Properties of Six-Dimensional (1, 0) Super Gravity (A Sagnotti); Brane Twisters (C Pope); Branes & Super Embeddings (P Howe); On Some Features of the M 5-Brane (D Sorokin); 5 Brane Dynamics & Four-Dimensional QFT (P West); Anti-de-Sitter Space, Branes, Singletons, Super CFT & All That (M Duff); Brane-Singleton Connection Revisited (E Sezgin); Maldecena's Conjecture & the Large-N Behaviour of Matrix Theory (L Susskind); Limits of M-Theory & Limitations of Matrix Theory (C Hull); The Universe as a Domain Wall (K Stelle); SL(2, Z) Family of Type 2B Superfivebranes (J Lu); String on SL(2, R) (J Evans); & other papers. Readership: Researchers in string theory & supersymmetric field theory.