TOPICS: • Physics of Black Holes • Gauge / Gravity Correspondence • Scattering Amplitudes in SYM and Supergravity • Physics Beyond the Standard Model • Holographic QCD • Holographic Condensed Matter The Aim of the activity is to provide pedagogical treatment of these subjects in the form of a series of lectures by individual speakers. The activity is intended for theoretical physicists or mathematicians with knowledge of quantum field theory, general relativity and string theory. LECTURERS INCLUDE: J. de BOER (University of Amsterdam) C.P. HERZOG (Princeton University) S. KACHRU (Stanford University & SLAC) J.M. MALDACENA (IAS Princeton) J. POLCHINSKI (Santa Barbara KITP) R. ROIBAN (Pennsylvania State University) S. SUGIMOTO (Tokyo University, IPMU) N. WEINER (New York University)