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Overview
This symposium was organized at the B.M. Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, and provided a platform for frontier physicists to exchange ideas and review the latest work and developments on a variety of interrelated topics. A feature of the symposium, as well as the proceedings, is the B.M. Birla Memorial Lecture by Nobel Laureate Professor Gerard 't Hooft. There were participants from the USA, several European countries, Russia and CIS countries, South Africa, Japan, India and elsewhere, of whom some forty scientists presented papers. Spanning a wide range of contemporary issues in fundamental physics from string theory to cosmology, the proceedings present many of these talks and contributions.Synopsis
This collection of 32 papers generated by an international symposium held in December 2000 at the B.M. Birla Science Centre, where editor Sidarth is based, includes conventional and alternative formulations of topics ranging from cosmology to quantum superstrings and particle physics. Co-editor Altaisky (Laboratory of Information Technologies, Dubna, Russia) elaborates on field theory on a Lie group. Other cosmic topics presented in non-grouped fashion include an anti- grand unification theory, explorations of space-time, quarks as vortices in vacuum, a novel method to solve familiar differential equations and its applications, a new model of gravity waves, and the effect of the expanding universe on fundamental "constants." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)