Deserfest
Subtitle: a celebration of the life and works of Stanley Deser : Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 3-5 April 2004
By: editors, James T. Liu ... [et al.].
Contributors: Deser, S. (Stanley); Liu, James T.; Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9789812774804
Subjects: Gravitation; Congresses; SCIENCE; Supergravity; Supersymmetry; Gravity
Other titles: Stanley Deser
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

"Publications of Stanley Deser: " p. 353-369.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: A celebration of the life and works of Stanley Deser; title: Causality and learning in neural systems / L.F. Abbott; title: Some results in M-theory inspired phenomenology / R. Arnowitt, B. Dutta and B. Hu; title: A unified view of particles and black holes in 2+1-dimensional gravity / D. Brill; title: A non-geometric approach to 11-dimensional supergravity / L. Brink; title: Cosmological singularities, billiards and Lorentzian Kac-Moody algebras / T. Damour; title: Generalized holonomy in M-theory / A. Batrachenko ... [et al.]; title: Orientifolds, Brane coordinates and special geometry / R. D'Auria, S. Ferrara and M. Trigiante; title: Consistent reductions of higher dimensional gravity and supergravity theories / G.W. Gibbons; title: Electric-magnetic duality in gravity / M. Henneaux and C. Teitelboim; title: R[symbol] terms in supergravity and M-theory / P. Howe; title: Marriage of 4-dimensional gravity to the 3-dimensional Chern-Simons term / R. Jackiw; title: Einstein-¿ther theory / C. Eling, T. Jacobson and D. Mattingly; title: Hyperboloidal slices and artificial cosmology for numerical relativity / C.W. Misner; title: Some applications of the ADM formalism / J.E. Nelson; title: Integrability + supersymmetry + boundary: life on the edge is not so dull after all! / R.I. Nepomechie; title: An effective field theory description for Kaluza-Klein supergravity on AdS[symbol] x S[symbol] / H. Nicolai and H. Samtleben; title: Massive gravity in AdS and Minkowski backgrounds / M. Porrati; title: Many roads lead to N=2 Seiberg-Witten theory / S.G. Naculich and H.J. Schnitzer; title: Non-commutative topologically massive gauge theory / N. Caporaso ... [et al.]; title: The main postulates and results of loop quantum gravity / L. Smolin; title: Counterterms, holonomy and supersymmetry / K.S. Stelle; title: Milne and Torus universes meet / A. Waldron; title: Diquarks as inspiration and as objects / F. Wilczek; title: De sitter breaking in field theory / R.P. Woodard; title: Publications of Stanley Deser; title: Photographs.