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2001, a spacetime odyssey : proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics : Michigan, USA, 21-25 May 2001

Title
2001, a spacetime odyssey : proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics : Michigan, USA, 21-25 May 2001 / foreword by Sheldon L. Glashow ; editors, Michael J. Duff, James T. Liu.
Author
Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics. Inaugural Conference (2001 : University of Michigan)
Publication
River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Duff, M. J.
  • Liu, James T.
Description
xii, 228 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
Alternative Title
  • Spacetime odyssey
  • Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics
Subjects
Note
  • Conference held at the University of Michigan.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Director's Welcoming Address / M. J. Duff -- Astrophysical Neutrinos: 20th Century and Beyond / J. N. Bahcall -- The Case for Discrete Energy Levels of a Black Hole / J. D. Bekenstein -- A Century of Gravity: 1901-2000 (Plus Some 2001) / S. Deser -- Spontaneous CP Violation: Alternative to the Standard Model / P. H. Frampton -- The Measure of Cosmological Parameters / W. L. Freedman -- Progress in Weakly Coupled String Phenomenology / M. K. Gaillard -- Spacetime Quantum Mechanics / J. B. Hartle -- My Life as a Boson: The Story of "the Higgs" / P. Higgs -- Inflation and String Cosmology / A. Linde -- Spacetime and Vacuum as Seen from Moscow / L. B. Okun -- Gauge Fields and Space-Time / A. M. Polyakov -- The Symmetry, or Lack of it, between Matter and Antimatter / H. R. Quinn -- Anomaly Cancellation: A Retrospective from a Modern Perspective / J. H. Schwarz -- The Dark Side of the Universe / J. Silk -- Making Sense of the New Cosmology / M. S. Turner --
  • Geometry and Spacetime / S.-T. Yau -- Nonabelian Gauge Theories on Noncommutative Spaces / D. Brace, B. L. Cerchiai and B. Zumino.
ISBN
9810248067
OCLC
  • ocm51197994
  • SCSB-4322608
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries