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SYMMETRY AND MODERN PHYSICS
Yang Retirement Symposium
State University of New York, Stony Brook 21 - 22 May 1999
edited by A Goldhaber, R Shrock, J Smith, G Sterman, P van Nieuwenhuizen & W Weisberger (SUNY, Stony Brook, USA)
C N Yang, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th Century, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957, jointly with T D Lee, for their investigation of the relationship (parity symmetry) between left- and right-handed states, leading to a discovery that astounded the world of physics — the nonconservation of parity by elementary particles and their reactions. With R L Mills, he created the concept of non-abelian gauge theories, the foundation of the modern description of elementary particles and forces. Professor Yang has worked on a wide range of subjects in physics, but his abiding interests have been symmetry principles, particle physics, and statistical mechanics.
In 1999, a symposium was held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook to mark the retirement of C N Yang as Einstein Professor and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, and to celebrate his many achievements. A noteworthy selection of the papers presented at the symposium appears in this invaluable volume in honor of Professor Yang.
Contents:
- A Conservative Revolutionary (F Dyson)
- Renormalization of Gauge
Theories and Master Equation (J Zinn-Justin)
- High Tc Superconductivity: Symmetries and Reflections (S-C Zhang)
- When Atoms Behave as Waves: Bose–Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser (W Ketterle)
- A Theory of Gamma-Ray Bursts (G Brown et al)
- Reconsideration of a Question Posed by Frank Yang at the 1973 Bonn Conference (M Veltman)
- Direct T-Violation Measurements and T-Odd Effects in Decay Experiments (L Alvarez-Gaumé et al.)
- Geometry Motivated by Physics (S-T Yau)
- Bethe's Ansatz: Now and Then (B Sutherland)
- The Microscopic World Unveiled by Electron Waves (A Tonomura)
- Possibilities for Spin Physics at High Energy (E D Courant)
- Research and Development Towards X-ray Free Electron Laser (L H Yu)
- Remarks on Yang–Mills Theory (T T Wu)
- The Hidden Information in the Standard Model (G 't Hooft)
- The q–t Puzzle Revisited (M Goldhaber)
- Remarks for ITP Presentation, C N Yang Symposium (G Sterman)
Readership: Students and researchers in physics.
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Pub. date: Sept 2003 |
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