A Few Projects in String Theory

Abstract

In these lectures I discuss various unsolved problems of string theory and their relations to quantum gravity, 3d Ising model, large N QCD, and quantum cosmology. No solutions are presented but some new and perhaps useful approaches are suggested.

18 pages, latex (references added)

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