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

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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:
Physics.
Quantum theory.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Lectures on Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory and Integrable Systems (D'Hoker/Phong)
  • 2. Lectures on Branes, Black Holes and Anti-de Sitter Space (Duff)
  • 3. Easy Turbulence (Gawedzki)
  • 4. BEC and the New World of Coherent Matter Waves (Griffin)
  • 5. Beyond CFT: Deformed Virasoro and Elliptic Algebras (Odake)
  • 6. Mesoscopic Physics (Simons/Altland)
  • 7. QCD In Extreme Conditions (Wilczek).