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World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics - Vol. 4

SALAMFESTSCHRIFT
A Collection of Talks from the Conference on Highlights of Particle and Condensed Matter Physics
ICTP, Trieste, Italy 8 - 12 March 1993

edited by A Ali (DESY), J Ellis (CERN) & S Randjbar-Daemi (ICTP)

The Salamfest was held to honor Prof Abdus Salam whose scientific contribution to the development and dissemination of physics has deeply influenced the course of scientific advancement. Colleagues, collaborators and former students met together to celebrate his scientific achievements, and discuss the highlights of recent advances in experiment and phenomenology in particle and condensed matter physics.

The Contributors are: A Ali, G Altarelli, L Alvarez-Gaumé, D Amati, J Bahcall, A Chamseddine, R Delbourgo, M Duff, J Ellis, J Feltesse, P Frampton, M Green, G 't Hooft, T Kibble, G Mack, Y Ne'eman, L O'Raifeartaigh, J Pati, R Peccei, S Randjbar-Daemi, Riazuddin & Fayyazuddin, D Schramm, H Schröder, D Sciama, E Sezgin, Q Shafi, C Vafa, S Weinberg, P West, B Winstein, E Witten, C N Yang, A Zichichi and B Zumino.


Contents:

  • Standard Model
  • Strings and Quantum Gravity
  • Beyond the Standard Model
  • Astro-Particle Physics and Cosmology
  • Mathematical Physics and Condensed Matter
  • Salam's Collaborators and Students


Readership: Condensed matter physicists and high energy physicists.

628pp Pub. date: Mar 1994
ISBN 981-02-1421-9 US$146 / £101


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