edited by M-L Ge (Nankai University, China) , C H Oh (National University of Singapore, Singapore) , & K K Phua (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Table of Contents (139k)
Preface (65k)
Chapter 1: Developing Creativity and Innovation in Engineering and Science (1,385k)

The Conference on Statistical Physics, High Energy, Condensed Matter and Mathematical Physics was held in honor of Professor Chen-Ning Yang's 85th birthday in Singapore in Oct–Nov 2007. The conference paid tribute to the breadth and depth of Professor Yang's achievements in physics and science education since he received his Nobel Prize in Physics fifty years ago.

This notable birthday volume is a collection of the presentations made at the conference by many eminent scientists who had worked closely with him or who have been influenced to some extent by his work.

• High Energies and Field Theories:Developing Creativity and Innovation in Engineering and Science (M L Perl)
  • Knots as Possible Excitations of the Quantum Yang-Mills Fields (L D Faddeev)
  • A Torsional Topological Invariant (H T Nieh)
  • Knot Topology of Classical Vacuum Space-Time (Y M Cho)
  • Some Thoughts on the Cosmological QCD Phase Transition (W-Y P Hwang)
  • Analytic Scattering Amplitudes for QCD (D Vaman & Y-P Yao)
  • Neutrino Oscillation and the Daya Bay ??₁₃ Experiment (B-L Young)
  • Scattering and Production at High Energies (T T Wu)
  • Gravity and Its Mysteries: Some Thoughts and Speculations (A Zee)
  • Geometric Phase and Chiral Anomaly, Their Basic Differences (K Fujikawa)
  • Consequences of a Minimal Length (L N Chang)
  • Model Kinetic Equations with Non-Boltzmann Properties (B H J McKellar, I Okuniewicz & J Quach)
  • Rigid Limit in N=2 Supergravity and Weak-Gravity Conjecture (T Eguchi & Y Tachikawa)
  • Five Decades After the Revolution: How Much Do We Know About the Neutrino? (N-P Chang)
  • Interacting Multi-Component Fermions and the Yang-Baxter Equation: Future Prospects (abstract) (M T Batchelor)
  • Free Electron Laser Developments in China (abstract) (Z-T Zhao)
  • Prospect of Particle Physics in China (H S Chen)
• Statistical Physics, Condensed Matter and Biophysics:
  • Nearsightedness of Electronic Matter (abstract) (W Kohn)
  • Complex Cooperative Behaviour in Range-Free Frustrated Many-Body Systems (D Sherrington)
  • Asymmetric Heat Conduction in Nonlinear Systems (B Hu)
  • The Spin-Charge Gauge Approach to the Theory of Doped Mott Insulators (abstract) (L Yu)
  • Direct and Non-Demolition Optical Measurement of Pure Spin Currents in Semiconductors (J Wang, B-F Zhu & R-B Liu)
  • From BCS to HTS and RTS (C W Chu)
  • The Fibonacci Model and the Temperley-Lieb Algebra (L H Kauffman & S J Lomonaco, Jr.)
  • Yang–Baxter Equation and Quantum Periodic Toda Lattice (abstract) (L Takhtajan)
  • Atomic-Scale Structure: From Surfaces to Nanomaterials (abstract) (M A van Hove)
  • Topological Quantum Numbers and Phase Transitions in Matter (abstract) (D Thouless)
  • Professor C N Yang and Statistical Mechanics (F Y Wu)
  • A Few Pieces of Mathematics Inspired by Real Biological Data (B L Hao)
  • Spin Precession and Interference in Two-Dimensional Electron Gas (C-R Chang & J-S Yang)
  • Atoms and Ions
  • Universality, Singularity and Particularity: On Boltzmann's Vision a Century Later (abstract) (M Fisher)
  • Insights from Computer Simulation (abstract) (E G Wang)
  • Fifty Years of Hard-Sphere Bose Gas: 1957–2007 (K Huang)
• Quantum Physics:
  • Quantum Phenomena Visualized by Electron Waves (A Tonomura)
  • Phase Separation of Atoms in Optical Lattices (abstract) (H-Q Lin)
  • Ultracold Atoms Achievements and Perspectives (C Cohen-Tannoudji)
  • Quantum Spin Hall Effect (S C Zhang)
  • Berry Phase in Yang-Baxter Systems and Bogoliubov Hamiltonian as a Derivative of Dirac Hamiltonian via Braid Relation (M-L Ge, K Xue, J-L Chen)
  • Hierarchical Quantum Search (V E Korepin & Y Xu)
  • Spin Hall Effect in Ultracold Atomic Gas (X-J Liu & C H Oh)
  • Magnetic Coupling and Quantum Well States (abstract) (Z Q Qiu)
  • Quantum Information Processing: Present Status and Perspectives (abstract) (I Cirac)
• Other Topics:
  • Prof. Yang and Prof. Steinberger (abstract & slides) (W M Wu)
  • “Almost Every Problem He Touched Eventually Turned into Gold” (L-L Chau)
  • Kidney — Boojum-Like Solutions and Exact Shape Equation of Lipid Monolayer Domains (M Iwamoto, F Liu, Z-C Ou-Yang)
  • Revisiting the Hydrodynamic Boundary Condition: New Results on an Old Problem (abstract) (P Sheng)
  • Recent Progress to Atomic Ionisation Theory (abstract) (I Bray, D V Fursa, A S Kadyrov & A T Stelbovics)
  • Chen Ning Yang and the Formation of AAPPS (M Konuma)
  • The Modeling and Functional Connectivity of the Brain (abstract) (S Kim)
  • Symmetry Effects in Computation (abstract) (A C-C Yao)
  • Applications of Nanotechnology to the Development of Energy-Related Technologies (abstract) (M-K Wu)
  • Chen-Ning Yang and My Student Days at Stony Brook (A Chao)