Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 08:14:35 -0400 From: Nathan Seiberg Subject: background for my lectures My lectures will cover a subset of the material reviewed in 1. LECTURES ON SUPERSYMMETRIC GAUGE THEORIES AND ELECTRIC - MAGNETIC DUALITY. By K. Intriligator, N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study). RU-95-48, Mar 1995. 44pp. Presented at Tasi 95, Boulder, Colo., Jun 4-26, 1995 and Trieste Spring School, Trieste, Italy, Mar 27 - Apr 15, 1995 and Trieste Summer School, Trieste, Italy, Jun 12 - Jul 23, 1995 and Cargese Summer School, Cargese, France, Jul 11-24, 1995. Published in Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.45BC:1-28,1996 e-Print Archive: hep-th/9509066 2. DUALITY IN SUPERSYMMETRIC YANG-MILLS THEORY. By Michael E. Peskin (SLAC). SLAC-PUB-7393, Feb 1997. 80pp. Lectures given at Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (TASI 96): Fields, Strings, and Duality, Boulder, CO, 2-28 Jun 1996. e-Print Archive: hep-th/9702094