CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS BEYOND FOUR DIMENSIONS 3 - 6 JULY 2000 Miramare, Trieste, Italy The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in collaboration with the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), will organize a Conference on Physics Beyond Four Dimensions. The goal of this conference is to discuss in detail various aspects of the higher dimensional theories with particular emphasis on their phenomenological consequences and experimental tests. INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: D. Amati, C. Bachas, V. Barger, P. Binetruy, S. Dimopoulos, G. Giudice, D. Gross, L. Hall, P. Horava, L. Ibañez, J. Lykken, R. Mohapatra, K. Narain, B. Ovrut, M. Peskin, J. Price, L. Randall, V. Rubakov, J. Schwarz, M. Shaposhnikov, H. Verlinde, E. Witten. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: I. Antoniadis(Ecole Polytechnique) N. Arkani-Hamed (Berkeley) G. Dvali (NYU) G. Senjanovic (ICTP) M. Shifman (Minnesota) A. Yu. Smirnov (ICTP) SCIENTIFIC SECRETARY: D. A. Demir (ICTP) TOPICS: * GRAVITY IN EXTRA DIMENSIONS * GRAVITATIONAL TESTS * PHYSICS OF BRANES * LARGE EXTRA DIMENSIONS AND STRINGS * MASS HIERARCHY PROBLEM * UNIFICATION OF GAUGE COUPLINGS * GAUGE SYMMETRY BREAKING * PRECISION ELECTROWEAK TESTS AND EXTRA DIMENSIONS * ORIGINS OF APPROXIMATE SYMMETRIES * FLAVOR GENERATION AND VIOLATION * NEUTRINO MASS AND MIXING * DARK MATTER AND EXTRA DIMENSIONS * BARYOGENESIS AND LEPTOGENESIS * NEW SCENARIOS OF INFLATION The conference is open to scientists from all countries of the world that are members of the UN, UNESCO or IAEA. Although the main purpose of the Abdus Salam ICTP is to help researchers from developing countries through a programme based on international co-operation, students and post-doctoral scientists from developed countries are also welcome to attend. The activity will be conducted in English. As a rule, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be covered by the home institutions. However, limited funds are available which permit the Centre to grant a subsistence allowance to a limited number of people from developing countries who will be selected by the Organizers. As scarcity of funds allows travel to be granted only in a few exceptional cases, every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fares from their home country. Scientists from developed countries are welcome to join on their own funds. There is no registration fee for attending the Conference. 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