CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- HOT THEORETICAL TOPICS -- Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes : From QCD to N = 8 Supergravity Z. Bern -- 1 Overview -- 2 U nitarity Method -- 3 Applications of the Unitarity Method -- 3.1 Applications to QCD -- 3.2 Applications to Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge and Gravity Amplitudes -- 4 Harmoneous Examples -- 4.1 A Comparison of Gravity To Gauge Theory -- 4.2 A Duality Between Color and Kinematics -- 5 Towards a Gravity Lagrangian -- 5.1 A Gravity Lagrangian from Gauge Theory -- 6 Conclusions and Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- CHAIRMAN: Z. BERN Scientific Secretaries: M. D. Azmi, T. Dennen -- DISCUSSION I -- CHAIRMAN: Z. BERN Scientific Secretaries: T. Dennen, V. Pauk -- DISCUSSION II -- CHAIRMAN: Z. BERN Scientific Secretaries: J. Jejelava, M. Kurkov -- DISCUSSION III -- The Measure Problem in Cosmology R. Bousso -- CHAIRMAN: R. BOUSSO Scientific Secretaries: P. Burda, D. Galakhov -- DISCUSSION I -- CHAIRMAN: R. BOUSSO Scientific Secretaries: M. Mulhearn, C. Pagnutti -- DISCUSSION II -- CHAIRMAN: R. BOUSSO Scientific Secretaries: B.L. Cerchiai, A. Marrani -- DISCUSSION III -- Black Holes and Qubits M. J. Duff -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BEKENSTEIN-HAWKING ENTROPY -- 3. BITS AND PIECES -- 4. CAYLEY'S HYPERDETERMINANT -- 5. OCTONIONS -- 6. IMPLICATIONS FOR M-THEORY -- 7. SUPERQUBITS -- 8. WRAPPED BRANES AS QUBITS -- 9. REPURPOSING STRING THEORY -- 10. FOUR QUBIT ENTANGLEMENT: A FALSIFIABLE PREDICTION -- Acknowledgements -- CHAIRMAN: M.J. DUFFScientific Secretaries: L. Borsten, F. Zaidi -- DISCUSSION I -- CHAIRMAN: M. J, DUFF Scientific Secretaries: P. Dunin-Barkowski, A. Popolitov -- DISCUSSION II -- Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Aspects of N = 8 Supergravity S. Ferrara -- 1 Lecture I On "Quantum" N = 8, d = 4 Supergravity -- 2 Lecture II (Multi-Center) Black Holes and Attractors -- Acknowledgments.

References -- CHAIRMAN: S. FERRARAScientific Secretaries: N. Ambrosetti, A. Zahabi -- DISCUSSION I -- CHAIRMAN: S. FERRARAScientific Secretaries: N .Ambrosetti, A. Zahabi -- DISCUSSION II -- The Gravitational S-Matrix : Erice Lectures S. B. Giddings -- 1 The problem(s) of quantum gravity -- 2 The gravitational S-matrix -- 2.1 Observables in quantum gravity? -- 2.2 The S-matrix and the ultraplanckian regime -- 3 Review of perturbative gravity -- 3.1 Perturbative quantization and the Born amplitude -- 3.2 Radiative corrections, nonrenormalizability, and the problem of ultraplanckian energies -- 3.3 Eikonal regime, and classical scattering -- 3.4 Match to supergravity amplitudes -- 3.5 Momentum fractionation and strong gravity -- 4 The gravitational unitarity crisis -- 5 Nice slices and the local spacetime perspective -- 6 Lessons from loops or strings? -- 7 Beyond local quantum field theory -- 8 The gravitational S-matrix: exploring general properties -- 8.1 Unitarity, analyticity, crossing -- 8.2 Partial waves, strong gravity, and a "Black-hole ansatz" -- 8.3 Locality vs. causality -- 9. Conclusions and directions -- References -- CHAIRMAN: S. GIDDINGS Scientific Secretaries: A. Khmelnitskiy, M. Schmidt-Sommerfeld -- DISCUSSION I -- CHAIRMAN: S. GIDDINGS Scientific Secretaries: A. Khmelnitskiy, M. Schmidt-Sommerfeld -- DISCUSSION II -- SEMINARS ON SPECIALIZED TOPICS -- Direct Evidence of Oscillation from II to III Family Neutrinos Y. Declais -- CHAIRMAN: Y. DECLAIS Scientific Secretaries: A. Vinogradov, C. Pagnutti -- DISCUSSION -- Probing the Small Distance Structure of Canonical Quantum Gravity using the Conformal Group G. 't. Hooft -- 1. Introduction: splitting the functional integral -- 2. Calculating the divergent part of the scalar functional integral -- 3. Local scale invariance and the Weyl curvature -- 4. Non conformal matter.

5. The divergent effective conformal action -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- A. The calculation of the one-loop pole terms for scalars, spinors and vectors interacting with a background metric -- References -- CHAIRMAN: G. 't HOOFT Scientific Secretaries: L. Alberte, G. Inguglia -- DISCUSSION -- The QGCW Project - Technological Challenges to Study the New World H. Wenninger -- References -- CHAIRMAN: H. WENNINGERScientific Secretaries: V. Alba, S. Mironov -- DISCUSSION -- HIGHLIGHTS FROM LABORATORIES -- The LHC and Beyond - Status, Results and Perspectives R. D. Heuer -- The Large Hadron Collider -- LHC Operations -- Present Physics Results -- Physics Prospects -- LHC Upgrade and Consolidation -- The Way Forward and the European Strategy for Particle Physics -- Key Messages -- Fascinating Science -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Highlights from FERMILAB P. J. Oddone -- CHAIRMAN: P.J. ODDONE Scientific Secretaries: P. Frolov, I. Dubovyk -- DISCUSSION I -- CHAIRMAN: P. J. ODDONE Scientific Secretaries: D. Gerbaudo, A. Miyazaki -- DISCUSSION II -- Anti- and Hypermatter Research at the Facility for Antiprotonand Ion Research FAIR H. Stöecker -- 1 The FAIR Project -- 2 The Experimental Program of FAIR -- 2.1 APPA - Atomic Physics, Plasma Physics and Applications -- 2.2 CBM/HADES - Compressed Baryonic Matter -- 2.3 NuSTAR- Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Reactions -- 2.4 PANDA - AntiProton ANnihilation in Darmstadt -- 3 The creation of antimatter -- 4 Hypermatter -- 5 Summary -- 6 Acknowledgments -- References -- CHAIRMAN: H. STOECKER Scientific Secretaries: A. Ortiz Velasquez, 0. Hrycyna -- DISCUSSION -- Highlights from BNL-RHIC S. Vigdor -- CHAIRMAN: S. VIGDOR Scientific Secretaries: N. Krupina, D. Ponomarev -- DISCUSSION I -- CHAIRMAN: S. VIGDOR Scientific Secretaries: A. Artsukevich, A. Lukdcs -- DISCUSSION II.

Highlights from Gran Sasso L. Votano -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gran Sasso National Laboratory -- 3. Physics at LNGS -- 3.1. Study of dark matter -- 3.2. Neutrino Physics -- 4. Borexino -- 5. The CNGS project and Opera -- 6. Icarus -- 7. Lvd -- 8. The research of neutrinoless double beta decay -- 9. Gerda -- 10. Cuore -- 11. Cobra -- 12. Conclusions -- 13. References -- CHAIRMAN: L.VOTANO Scientific Secretaries: M. D. Azmi, R. Rescigno -- DISCUSSION -- Highlights from ISS-AMS S. C. C. Ting -- CHAIRMAN: S.C.C.TING Scientific Secretaries: A. Krislock, Y. Mao -- DISCUSSION -- SPECIAL SESSIONS FOR NEW TALENTS -- Four-Qubit Entanglement : Lessons of a Black Hole L. Borsten -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Entanglement -- 3 Nilpotent orbits and black holes -- 4 The entanglement classification of four qubits -- Acknowledgements -- References -- A. Simple Way to Take into Account Back Reaction on Pair Creation P. Burda -- Search for a High-Mass Higgs Boson at the Tevatron D. Gerbaudo -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Samples and Event Selection -- 3 Multivariate Discriminant -- 4 Limits -- 5 Conclusions -- 6 Acknowledgments -- References -- Twisted Strings in Extended Abelian Higgs Model A. Lukács -- Introduction -- 1 Two-component extended Abelian Higgs models -- 2 Twisted strings -- 2.1 Twisted string Ansatz and vortex profile equations -- 2.2 Energy -- 2.3 Current -- 2.4 Range of solutions -- 2.5 n = 2 vortices and the vortex-vortex interaction -- 3 Vortices with both scalar fields having nonzero VEV inthe vacuum -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Positronium Hyperfine Splitting A. Miyazaki -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Measurement with quantum oscillation -- 3 Direct measurement of Ps-HFS -- 3.1 Gyrotron -- 3.2 Mode converter -- 3.3 Fabry-Perot cavity -- 3.4 Detection System -- 4 Summary -- References -- How I Failed to Find any New Fundamental Particles M. Mulhearn -- 1 Introduction.

2 Searches for the SM Higgs -- 3 Final Discriminants and Systematic Uncertainties -- 4 The SM Higgs Combination -- 5 Search for Magnetic Monopoles -- 6 Acknowledgments -- References -- CLOSING CEREMONY -- Diplomas and Awards -- Participants.