Theoretical Physics at the End of the Twentieth Century
Subtitle: Lecture Notes of the CRM Summer School, Banff, Alberta
By: edited by Yvan Saint-Aubin, Luc Vinet
Contributors: Vinet, Luc
Series: CRM Series in Mathematical Physics; CRM series in mathematical physics
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9781441929488; 9781475736717
Subjects: Quantum theory; Physics
Description: This volume provides a snapshot of topics engaging theoretical physicists at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. Based on seven of the courses given at the 1999 CRM Summer School in Banff, the chapters provide timely, diverse and exciting views of their fields. The contributions include: - Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and integrable systems (E. D'Hoker and D.H. Phong) - Branes, black holes and anti-De Sitter space (M.J. Duff) - Turbulence (K. Gawedzki) - Bose--Einstein condensation and coherent matter waves (A. Griffin) - Deformed Virasoro and elliptic algebras (S. Odake) - Mesoscopic physics (B. Simons, A. Atland) - QCD in extreme conditions (F. Wilczek) Young physicists will find in these chapters pedagogical introductions to subjects currently active in theoretical physics, and more seasoned physicists will find a chance to share the excitement of fields outside their immediate research interests.
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Table of contents: title: 1. Lectures on Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory and Integrable Systems (D'Hoker/Phong); title: 2. Lectures on Branes, Black Holes and Anti-de Sitter Space (Duff); title: 3. Easy Turbulence (Gawedzki); title: 4. BEC and the New World of Coherent Matter Waves (Griffin); title: 5. Beyond CFT: Deformed Virasoro and Elliptic Algebras (Odake); title: 6. Mesoscopic Physics (Simons/Altland); title: 7. QCD In Extreme Conditions (Wilczek).