Memorial Volume on Abdus Salam's 90th Birthday

Abdus Salam at Imperial College / M.J. Duff -- Life with Salam (1959-1976) / Robert Delbourgo -- The force and gravity of events / Robert Delbourgo -- Advantages of unity with SU(4)-color: reflections through neutrino oscillations, baryogenesis and proton decay / Jogesh C. Pati -- Abdus Salam, the electroweak forces, ICTP and beyond / Antonino Zichichi -- Imagining the future, or how the Standard Model may survive the attacks / Gerard 't Hooft -- Abdus Salam & physics beyond the Standard Model / Qaisar Shafi -- Abdus Salam: the passionate, compassionate man and his masterpiece the ICTP / Miguel A. Virasoro -- A brief review of E theory / Peter West -- Quanta of geometry and unification / Ali H. Chamseddine -- Abdus Salam and quadratic curvature gravity: classical solutions / K. Stelle -- ICTP: from a dream to a reality in 50+ years / F. Quevedo -- Salam's dream and dynamic changes in Chinese condensed matter physics - a personal perspective / Yu Lu -- Prof. Abdus Salam, my teacher and mentor: the role of ICTP in Africa / Francis Kofi A. Allotey -- Action principles for hydro- and thermo-dynamics / Christian Fronsdal -- Is left-right symmetry the key? / G. Senjanovic -- Precision tests of the Standard Model: rare B-meson decays / Ahmed Ali -- SESAME: a personal point of view / E. Rabinovici -- The long journey to the Higgs boson and beyond at the LHC Part I: Emphasis on CMS / T. Virdee -- The long journey to the Higgs boson and beyond at the LHC Part II: Emphasis on ATLAS / Peter Jenni -- High energy physics, past, present and future / Hirotaka Sugawara -- Chern-Simons theories with fundamental matter: a brief review of large N results including Fermi-Bose duality and the S-matrix / Spenta R. Wadia -- Lorentz invariant CPT breaking in the Dirac equation / Kazuo Fujikawa -- Cosmology and supergravity / S. Ferrara, A. Kehagias, A. Sagnotti -- A new look at Newton-Cartan gravity / E.A. Bergshoeff & J. Rosseel -- Neutrino oscillations and neutrino masses / Harald Fritzsch -- Majorana fermions in condensed-matter physics / A.J. Leggett -- What remains invariant: life lessons from Abdus Salam / T.Z. Husain -- Banquet speech / Ahmad Salam.

• | Author: Lars Brink, Michael James Duff, Kok Khoo Phua
• | Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• | Publication Date: Apr 20, 2017
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 9813144866
• | ISBN-13: 9789813144866