Proceedings, 8th Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics

The Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics is organized by enthusiastic PhD students from Belgian universities (ULB, VUB, KUL) for other young PhD students or post-docs from all around Europe. The main goal is to present introductory and pedagogical lectures on theoretical physic topics, ranging from basics to research subjects. The topics presented in these proceedings of the Eighth edition are: Introduction to Conformal Field Theories, Thermodynamics of String Gas, Higher Spin Theory, Introduction to Universality and Renormalisation Group Techniques and Duality Symmetric Approaches to String and M-theory