Comptes rendus Académie des sciences, Physique, tome 6, fasc 2, Mars 2005 : strings, gravity, and the quest for unification...

Minimal string theory -Nathan Seiberg, David Shih. Ricci flows and their integrability in two dimensions -Ioannis Bakas. Covariant multiloop superstring amplitudes -Nathan Berkovits. No-scale supergravity from higher dimensions -Riccardo D'Auria, Sergio Ferrara, Mario Trigiante. Modular bootstrap of boundary N=2 Liouville theory -Tohru Eguchi. Super Yang-Mills, matrix models and geometric transitions -Frank Ferrari. Wormholes in AdS -Liat Maoz. What is inside a black hole? -Samir D. Mathur. Anomalies, Gauss laws, and Page charges in M-theory -Gregory W. Moore. Z-theory: chasing theory -Nikita Nekrasov. Field theory supertubes -Paul K. Townsend.