Theoretical Physics at the End of the Twentieth Century : Lecture Notes of the CRM Summer School, Banff, Alberta /

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. Th...

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Main Author: Saint-Aubin, Yvan
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Vinet, Luc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2002.
Series:CRM series in mathematical physics.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 636 pages)
ISBN:9781475736717 (electronic bk.)
1475736711 (electronic bk.)