Published by the Institute of Physics ASCR Prague. Distributed by the World Scientific Publishing Company. I personally found this a very exciting conference, and not just because of the work going on in my fields, the field of glasses and quantum fluids and solids, but particularly for the things which have been presented by all of the plenary and invited speakers I have heard. For instance, consider the whole business of Bose-Einstein condensation, which has been well covered at this conference. The nature of high Tc superconductivity, in particular the issue of d-wave symmetry to the order parameter is another example.
Mesoscopic physics continues to show great promise for potential devices and new physics.
It is, I should say, an exquisite probe of physics which we understand at some level, but in fact we are now beginning to see elucidation of physics beyond the level one can see through macroscopic probes. In applications of superconductivity, I think everyone must have been very impressed with Professor Likharev's presentation, even discounting perhaps some of the optimism which he has for the subject. It looks like there is an exceedingly exciting future for conventional superconducting devices. And, of course, the potential for applications of high Tc's also look very good. That brings me to an interesting thing.