Theoretical Physics at the End of the Twentieth Century

Based on courses given at the CRM Banff summer school in 1999, this volume provides a snapshot of topics engaging theoretical physicists at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. 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.

Contenu

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)