International advisory committee
- Ignatios Antoniadis (CERN, Switzerland)
- Nathan Berkovits (IFT, Brasil)
- Lars Brink (Goteburg, Sweden)
- Michael Douglas (Rutgers, USA)
- Tohru Eguchi (Rikkyo & Kyoto, Japan)
- Michael Green (Cambridge, UK)
- David Gross (KITP, USA)
- Jeffrey Harvey (Chicago, USA)
- Chris Hull (London, UK)
- Elias Kiritsis (Crete, Greece)
- Igor Klebanov (Princeton, USA)
- Kimyeong Lee (KIAS, Korea)
- Dieter Luest (LMU, Germany)
- Juan Maldacena (IAS, USA)
- Robert Myers (Perimeter Institute, Canada)
- Hermann Nicolai (AEI, Germany)
- Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech, USA)
- Joseph Polchinski (KITP, USA)
- Alexander Polyakov (Princeton, USA)
- Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew University, Israel)
- Soo-Jong Rey (Seoul National University, Korea)
- Augusto Sagnotti (Pisa, Italy)
- John Schwarz (Caltech, USA)
- Nathan Seiberg (IAS, USA)
- Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India)
- Andrew Strominger (Harvard, USA)
- Henry Tye (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & Cornell, USA)
- Cumrun Vafa (Harvard, USA)
- Spenta Wadia (Tata Institute, India)
- Edward Witten (IAS, USA)
- Renata Kallosh (Stanford, USA)