Many of the topics in this book are outgrowths of the spectacular new understanding of duality in string theory which emerged around 1995. They include the AdS/CFT correspondence and its relation to holography, the matrix theory formulation of M theory, the structure of black holes in string theory, the structure of D-branes and M-branes, and detailed development of dualities with N = 1 and N = 2 supersymmetry. In addition, there are lectures covering experimental and phenomenological aspects of the Standard Model and its extensions, and discussions on cosmology including both theoretical aspects and the exciting new experimental evidence for a non-zero cosmological constant. Contents:TASI Lectures on Branes, Black Holes and Anti-De Sitter Space (M J Duff)D-Brane Primer (C V Johnson)TASI Lectures on Black Holes in String Theory (A W Peet)TASI Lectures: Cosmology for String Theorists (S M Carroll)TASI Lectures on Matrix Theory (T Banks)TASI Lectures on M Theory Phenomenology (M Dine)TASI Lectures: Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence (I R Klebanov)TASI Lectures on Compactification and Duality (D R Morrison)Compactification, Geometry and Duality: N=2 (P S Aspinwall)TASI Lectures on Non-BPS D-Brane Systems (J H Schwarz)Lectures on Warped Compactifications and Stringy Brane Constructions (S Kachru)TASI Lectures on the Holographic Principle (D Bigatti & L Susskind) Readership: Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and researchers in high energy physics. Keywords:Strings;Branes;Gravity;Black Holes;Supersymmetry;Cosmology;Matrix Theory;Compactification;Duality;Geometry;Warped Compactifications;Holographic PrincipleReviews:“For those in the field, the volume is an excellent addition to the line of perennially useful and timely collections of TASI lectures. For the community at large, it provides a detailed and technical introduction to many of the fascinating and promising ideas currently in vogue in string theory and formal particle physics.”Contemporary Physics

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