Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; International Standing Committee; International Advisory Committee; Local Organizing Committee; Obituary; The 2002 Wigner Medal; The Wigner Medal 2002: Introduction; Awarding of the Wigner Medal for 2002 to Prof H J Lipkin of the Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovoth, Israel; Response to the award of the Wigner Medal; The 2002 Hermann Weyl Prize; The Hermann Weyl Prize: Introduction; Affine Kac-Moody algebras, integrable systems and their deformations; Plenary Sessions; Quantum computing using dissipation
  • Group projection method in statistical systemsSymmetric polynomials in physics; Strings, symmetries and representations; Solitons, platonic symmetry and Fullerenes; Special Plenary Session and Round Table: Historical and Epistemological Aspects of Group Theory in Physics; Historical and epistemological aspects of group theory in physics: An interlude; What if Einstein had not been there? A Gedankenexperiment in science history; Section 1: Discrete Groups and Geometry; Wavelet basis for quasicrystal diffraction; Haar wavelets for the quasiperiodic icosahedral Danzer tiling
  • Quasicrystalline combinatoricsSelf-similar cut-and-project sequences; Closed geodesies in cosmology and discrete group actions on hyperbolic manifolds; Using the renormalization group for the evaluation of electronic localization; Tilings and coverings embedded into the canonical decagonal tiling T*[sup(A4)]; Delone sets of beta-integers, Rauzy fractals and adeles; Superspace groups for incommensurate composite systems; Section 2: Strings, Cosmology and Gravitation; Spacetime algebraic skeleton; Are we permitted to deform the Poincaré group?
  • 0(d+l, d+ri+l)-invariant formulation of stationary heterotic string theory N Barbosa-Cendejas, A Herrera-AguilarMetric-polynomial structures and gravitational Lagrangians; Octonions and M-theory; Symmetry and invariance in Leibniz's approach of natural phenomena. Application to dynamics; Gravitating lumps
  • 2002; Group theoretical approach to QFT in de Sitter space; Time in quantum geometrodynamics; Conformai Lie algebras of spacetimes; Orthogonal symmetry and matrix potentials in heterotic string theory