Chair: S. Vandoren
| Str-1-1 | 16:30 | Reggeon exchange from AdS/CFT | ps | R. Peschanski (Service de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay) |
| Str-1-2 | 17:00 | Gauged supergravities in nine dimensions | Eric Bergshoeff (University of Groningen) | |
| Str-1-3 | 17:30 | What are Instantons made of? | Chris Ford (Universiteit Leiden) | |
| Str-1-4 | 18:00 | Construction of Supersymmetric Nonlinear Sigma Models on Noncompact Calabi-Yau Manifolds with Isometry | Kiyoshi Higashijima (Osaka University) | |
| Str-1-5 | 18:15 | Orbifold Breaking of Gauge Symmetry | Satyanarayan Nandi (Oklahoma State University) |