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. TOPICS: • D-Brane Instantons • Wall Crossing • Entropy Enigmas • Precision counting • Black Holes and Attractors • Black Holes in AdS LECTURERS INCLUDE: R. Blumenhagen (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik) A. Dabholkar (LPTHE & TIFR) F. Larsen (University of Michigan) S. Minwalla (TIFR) J.F. Morales Morera (INFN Rome) B. Pioline (LPTHE)