Download or read book Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of Murray Gell Mann s 80th Birthday written by Harald Fritzsch and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conference on Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Cosmology and Complexity was held in honour of Professor Murray Gell-Mann's 80th birthday in Singapore on 24?26 February 2010. The conference paid tribute to Professor Gell-Mann's great achievements in the elementary particle physics. This notable birthday volume contains the presentations made at the conference by many eminent scientists, including Nobel laureates C N Yang, G 't Hooft and K Wilson. Other invited speakers include G Zweig, N Samios, M Karliner, G Karl, M Shifman, J Ellis, S Adler and A Zichichi. About Murray Gell-Mann Murray Gell-Mann, born September 15, 1929, won the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. His contributions span the entire history of particle physics, from the early days of the particle zoo to the modern day QCD. Along the way, even as he proposed new quantum numbers to bring order into the zoo, he had fun in naming them. And thus was born Strangeness, Flavor, Hadrons, Baryons, Leptons, the Eightfold Way, Color, Quarks, Gluons and, with Harald Fritzsch, the standard field theory of strong interactions, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). He also proposed with Richard Feynman the V-A theory of beta decay. Gell-Mann discovered the Current Algebra, proposed (with Levy) the sigma model of pions and the see-saw mechanism for the neutrino masses.

Download or read book Selected Papers II with Commentaries written by Chen Ning Yang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of Professor Chen Ning Yang's personally selected papers (1971-2012) supplemented by his commentaries. Its contents reflect the professor's changing interests after he reached age sixty.

Download or read book Selected Papers of Chen Ning Yang II written by Chen Ning Yang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Chen Ning Yang, an eminent contemporary physicist, was Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1955 to 1966, and Albert Einstein Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook until his retirement in 1999. He has been Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1986 and Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, since 1998. Since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1948, Prof Yang has made great impacts in both abstract theory and phenomenological analysis in modern physics. In 1983, he published “Selected Papers (1945–1980), With Commentary”. It has been considered by Freeman Dyson as one of his favorite books. The present book is a sequel to that earlier volume. It is a collection of his personally selected papers (1971–2012) supplemented by his insightful commentaries. Its contents reflect Professor Yang's changing interests after he reached age sixty. It also includes commentaries written by him in 2011 when he is 89 years old. The papers and commentaries in this unique collection comprise a remarkable personal and professional chronicle, shedding light on both the intellectual development of a great physicist and on the nature of scientific inquiry. Contents:Speech About the Great WallC N Yang Discusses Physics in People's Republic of ChinaA de Gaulle-Like TripCondition of Self-Duality for SU(2) Gauge Fields on Euclidean Four-Dimensional SpaceGeneralization of Dirac's Monopole to SU2 Gauge FieldsEinstein and the Physics of the FutureDoes Violation of Microscopic Time-Reversal Invariance Lead to the Possibility of Entropy Decrease?Joseph Mayer and Statistical MechanicsFlux Quantization, A Personal ReminiscenceThe Discrete Symmetries P, T and CGauge Fields, Electromagnetism and the Bohm-Aharonov EffectSpin of Electrons, Hadrons and NucleiHermann Weyl's Contribution to PhysicsSquare Root of Minus One, Complex Phases and Erwin SchrödingerGeneralization of Sturm-Liouville Theory to a System of Ordinary Differential Equations with Dirac Type SpectrumC Y Chao, Pair Creation and Pair AnnihilationA One-Dimensional N Fermion Problem with Factorized S MatrixJourney Through Statistical MechanicsModern Physics and Warm FriendshipSO4 Symmetry in a Hubbard ModelSymmetry and PhysicsS S Chern and IReflections on the Development of Theoretical PhysicsDeng JiaxianJulian SchwingerPath Crossings with Lars OnsagerExact Solution of the Vibration Problem for the Carbon-60 MoleculeFather and ISpeech After BanquetWriteup Upon Hearing of Mills' DeathEnrico FermiWerner Heisenberg (1901–1976)Banquet Speech, June 2002Thematic Melodies of Twentieth Century Theoretical Physics: Quantization, Symmetry and Phase FactorGauge Invariance and InteractionsAlbert Einstein: Opportunity and PerceptionThe Klein-Nishina Formula & Quantum ElectrodynamicsPseudopotential Method and Dilute Hard “Sphere” Bose Gas in Dimensions 2, 4 and 5Ground State of Fermions in a 1D Trap with δ Function InteractionBanquet Speech at the Singapore Conference in Honour of Murray Gell-Mann on His 80th BirthdaySpin 1/2 Fermions in 1D Harmonic Trap with Repulsive Delta Function Interparticle InteractionOne-Dimensional ω-Component Fermions and Bosons with Repulsive Delta Function InteractionQuantum Numbers, Chern Classes, and a BodhisattvaMy Experience as a Student and ResearcherFermi's β-Decay TheoryTopology and Gauge Theory in PhysicsOn Reaching Age Ninety Readership: Graduate students and researchers in particle physics and statistical physics. Keywords:Chen Ning Yang;Particle Physics;Gauge Theories;Phenomenology;Statistical PhysicsReviews: “Prof. Yang's achievements certainly has a great deal to reflect upon and propound, such as attested to by his many speeches on different occasions and contributions to various publications, which make up slightly more than one-third of the book. Among the 47 articles included, close to a quarter are original research papers.” International Journal of Modern Physics A

Download or read book 2012 written by and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 3064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particularly in the humanities and social sciences, festschrifts are a popular forum for discussion. The IJBF provides quick and easy general access to these important resources for scholars and students. The festschrifts are located in state and regional libraries and their bibliographic details are recorded. Since 1983, more than 659,000 articles from more than 30,500 festschrifts, published between 1977 and 2011, have been catalogued.

Download or read book What We Would Like LHC to Give Us written by Antonino Zichichi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, ISSP 2012, 50th Course — ERICE, 23 June 2013 – 2 July 2012. This course was devoted to the celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the Subnuclear Physics School which was started in 1961 by Antonino Zichichi with John Bell at CERN and formally established in 1962 by Bell, Blackett, Weisskopf, Rabi and Zichichi in Geneva (CERN). The lectures covered the latest and most significant achievements in theoretical and in experimental subnuclear physics. Contents:QCD Celebrations and Gold-Medal to Murray Gell-Mann:Opening Remarks (A Zichichi)Some Reminiscences of Research Leading to QCD and Beyond (M Gell-Mann)The Erice Centre, Gell-Mann, QCD, the Effective Energy and Complexity (A Zichichi)History of QCD (H Fritzsch)On the History of the Strong Interaction (H Leutwyler)Colour Transparency and Saturation in QCD (D Schildknecht)Glue-mesons: Their Conception Needs All of QCD in the Infrared (P Minkowski)Quark Masses in QCD (C A Dominguez)The Quark Model and QCD (F Close)Key Steps Toward the Creation of QCD — Notes on the Logic and History of the Genesis of QCD (T Y Cao)Hot Theoretical Topics:Perturbative Gravity from Gauge Theory (Z Bern)Black Holes and Supersymmetry (L Andrianopoli, R D'Auria and S Ferrara)Composite Weak Bosons at the LHC (H Fritzsch)High Energy Scattering in QCD and in Quantum Gravity (L N Lipatov)One-Parameter Model for the Superworld (D V Nanopoulos et al.)Beyond Relativistic Quantum String Theory (G 't Hooft)Hot Experimental Topics:Borexino Latest Results (G Bellini)Highlights from LHC (P Bloch)Highlights from ATLAS (P Jenni)Origin and Status of Luna at Gran Sasso (C Broggini)Highlights from ALICE (P Giubellino)Highlights from BNL-RHIC (M J Tannenbaum)Origin and Status of the Gran Sasso INFN Laboratory (L Votano)Seminars on Specialized Topics:Status of Opera (D Autiero)The Origin and Status of the Third Neutrino (A Bettini)High Energy Physics and Gravitational Waves (E Coccia)Four Decades of Computing in Subnuclear Physics — from Bubble Chamber to LHC (J Knobloch)The LAA Project and the Consequences on LHC (H Wenninger)Complexity and the QGCW Project (A Zichichi)Special Sessions for New Talents:Patterns of Flavour Violation at the Dawn of the LHC Era (M V Carlucci)Precise Measurement of the W Boson Mass with the DØ Detector (R Lopes de Sá)QFT and Unification of Knot Theories (A Sleptsov)Hunting in Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment (F Zhang)Vacuum Stability in the SM and the Three-loop β-function for the Higgs Self-interaction (M F Zoller)Closing Ceremony:DiplomasAwardsParticipantsGroup Photo Readership: Directed to experts and advanced-level students in the field of Theoretical and Experimental Subnuclear Physics. Keywords:Quantum Chromodynamics;Complexity;Fundamental Level;LHC Results;Higgs-SUSY;Particle Physics;Quantum Gravity;Black Holes

Download or read book Chaos Theory in Politics written by Santo Banerjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work investigates global politics and political implications of social science and management with the aid of the latest complexity and chaos theories. Until now, deterministic chaos and nonlinear analysis have not been a focal point in this area of research. This book remedies this deficiency by utilizing these methods in the analysis of the subject matter. The authors provide the reader a detailed analysis on politics and its associated applications with the help of chaos theory, in a single edited volume.

Download or read book Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists written by A. Zee and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, modern textbook on group theory written especially for physicists Although group theory is a mathematical subject, it is indispensable to many areas of modern theoretical physics, from atomic physics to condensed matter physics, particle physics to string theory. In particular, it is essential for an understanding of the fundamental forces. Yet until now, what has been missing is a modern, accessible, and self-contained textbook on the subject written especially for physicists. Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists fills this gap, providing a user-friendly and classroom-tested text that focuses on those aspects of group theory physicists most need to know. From the basic intuitive notion of a group, A. Zee takes readers all the way up to how theories based on gauge groups could unify three of the four fundamental forces. He also includes a concise review of the linear algebra needed for group theory, making the book ideal for self-study. Provides physicists with a modern and accessible introduction to group theory Covers applications to various areas of physics, including field theory, particle physics, relativity, and much more Topics include finite group and character tables; real, pseudoreal, and complex representations; Weyl, Dirac, and Majorana equations; the expanding universe and group theory; grand unification; and much more The essential textbook for students and an invaluable resource for researchers Features a brief, self-contained treatment of linear algebra An online illustration package is available to professors Solutions manual (available only to professors)

Download or read book Chaos Complexity and Leadership 2016 written by Şefika Şule Erçetin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the proceedings from the 2016 International Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership, and reflects current research results of chaos and complexity studies and their applications in various fields. Included are research papers in the fields of applied nonlinear methods, modeling of data and simulations, as well as theoretical achievements of chaos and complex systems. Also discussed are leadership and management applications of chaos and complexity theory.

Download or read book Chaos and Complexity Theory in World Politics written by Erçetin, ?efika ?ule and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an important research field in mathematics, chaos theory impacts many different disciplines such as physics, engineering, economics, and biology. Most recently, however, chaos theory has also been applied to the social sciences, helping to explain the complex and interdependent nature of international politics. Chaos and Complexity Theory in World Politics aims to bring attention to new developments in global politics within the last few years. Demonstrating various issues in international relations and the application of chaos theory within this field, this publication serves as an essential reference for researchers and professionals, as well as useful educational material for academicians and students.

Download or read book Memorial Volume On Abdus Salam s 90th Birthday written by Brink Lars and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of one of the most prolific and exciting scientists of the second half of the last century, a memorial meeting was organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies at Nanyang Technological University for Professor Abdus Salam's 90th Birthday in January 2016. Salam believed that "scientific thought is the common heritage of all mankind" and that the developing world should play its part, not merely by importing technology but by being the arbiter of its own scientific destiny. That belief saw him rise from humble beginnings in a village in Pakistan to become one of the world's most original and influential particle physicists, culminating in the 1979 Nobel Prize (shared with Glashow and Weinberg) for contributions to electroweak unification, which forms an integral part of the Standard Model. The book collected the papers presented at this memorable event which saw many distinguished scientists participating as speakers to reflect on Prof Salam's great passion for the science and achievements.

Download or read book Liberating Sociology From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imaginations Volume 1 Unriddling the Quantum Enigma written by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi and published by Ahead Publishing House (imprint: Okcir Press). This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new study in the sociology of scientific knowledge, social theorist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi reports having unriddled the so-called ‘quantum enigma.’ This book opens the lid of the Schrödinger’s Cat box of the ‘quantum enigma’ after decades and finds something both odd and familiar: Not only the cat is both alive and dead, it has morphed into an elephant in the room in whose interpretation Einstein, Bohr, Bohm, and others were each both right and wrong because the enigma has acquired both localized and spread-out features whose unriddling requires both physics and sociology amid both transdisciplinary and transcultural contexts. The book offers, in a transdisciplinary and transcultural sociology of self-knowledge framework, a relativistic interpretation to advance a liberating quantum sociology. Deeper methodological grounding to further advance the sociological imagination requires investigating whether and how relativistic and quantum scientific revolutions can induce a liberating reinvention of sociology in favor of creative research and a just global society. This, however, necessarily leads us to confront an elephant in the room, the ‘quantum enigma.’ In Unriddling the Quantum Enigma, the first volume of the series commonly titled Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian toward Quantum Imaginations, sociologist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi argues that unriddling the ‘quantum enigma’ depends on whether and how we succeed in dehabituating ourselves in favor of unified relativistic and quantum visions from the historically and ideologically inherited, classical Newtonian modes of imagining reality that have subconsciously persisted in the ways we have gone about posing and interpreting (or not) the enigma itself for more than a century. Once this veil is lifted and the enigma unriddled, he argues, it becomes possible to reinterpret the relativistic and quantum ways of imagining reality (including social reality) in terms of a unified, nonreductive, creative dialectic of part and whole that fosters quantum sociological imaginations, methods, theories, and practices favoring liberating and just social outcomes. The essays in this volume develop a set of relativistic interpretive solutions to the quantum enigma. Following a survey of relevant studies, and an introduction to the transdisciplinary and transcultural sociology of self-knowledge framing the study, overviews of Newtonianism, relativity and quantum scientific revolutions, the quantum enigma, and its main interpretations to date are offered. They are followed by a study of the notion of the “wave-particle duality of light” and the various experiments associated with the quantum enigma in order to arrive at a relativistic interpretation of the enigma, one that is shown to be capable of critically cohering other offered interpretations. The book concludes with a heuristic presentation of the ontology, epistemology, and methodology of what Tamdgidi calls the creative dialectics of reality. The volume essays involve critical, comparative/integrative reflections on the relevant works of founding and contemporary scientists and scholars in the field. This study is the first in the monograph series “Tayyebeh Series in East-West Research and Translation” of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (XIII, 2020), published by OKCIR: Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). OKCIR is dedicated to exploring, in a simultaneously world-historical and self-reflective framework, the human search for a just global society. It aims to develop new conceptual (methodological, theoretical, historical), practical, pedagogical, inspirational and disseminative structures of knowledge whereby the individual can radically understand and determine how world-history and her/his selves constitute one another. Reviews “Mohammad H. Tamdgidi’s Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imaginations, Volume 1, Unriddling the Quantum Enigma hits the proverbial nail on the head of an ongoing problem not only in sociology but also much social science—namely, many practitioners’ allegiance, consciously or otherwise, to persisting conceptions of ‘science’ that get in the way of scientific and other forms of theoretical advancement. Newtonianism has achieved the status of an idol and its methodology a fetish, the consequence of which is an ongoing failure to think through important problems of uncertainty, indeterminacy, multivariation, multidisciplinarity, and false dilemmas of individual agency versus structure, among many others. Tamdgidi has done great service to social thought by bringing to the fore this problem of disciplinary decadence and offering, in effect, a call for its teleological suspension—thinking beyond disciplinarity—through drawing upon and communicating with the resources of quantum theory not as a fetish but instead as an opening for other possibilities of social, including human, understanding. The implications are far-reaching as they offer, as the main title attests, liberating sociology from persistent epistemic shackles and thus many disciplines and fields connected to things ‘social.’ This is exciting work. A triumph! The reader is left with enthusiasm for the second volume and theorists of many kinds with proverbial work to be done.” — Professor Lewis R. Gordon, Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies and author of Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times (Routledge/Paradigm, 2006), and Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (Routledge, forthcoming 2020) "Social sciences are still using metatheoretical models of science based on 19th century newtonian concepts of "time and space". Mohammad H. Tamdgidi has produced a 'tour de force' in social theory leaving behind the old newtonian worldview that still informs the social sciences towards a 21st century non-dualistic, non-reductionist, transcultural, transdisciplinary, post-Einsteinian quantum concept of TimeSpace. Tamdgidi goes beyond previous efforts done by titans of social theory such as Immanuel Wallerstein and Kyriakos Kontopoulos. This book is a quantum leap in the social sciences at large. Tamdgidi decolonizes the social sciences away from its Eurocentric colonial foundations bringing it closer not only to contemporary natural sciences but also to its convergence with the old Eastern philosophical and mystical worldviews. This book is a masterpiece in social theory for a 21st century decolonial social science. A must read!" — Professor Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California at Berkeley​​​​​​​ "Tamdgidi’s Liberating Sociology succeeds in adding physical structures to the breadth of the world-changing vision of C. Wright Mills, the man who mentored me at Columbia. Relativity theory and quantum mechanics can help us to understand the human universe no less than the physical universe. Just as my Creating Life Before Death challenges bureaucracy’s conformist orientation, so does Liberating Sociology“liberate the infinite possibilities inherent in us.” Given our isolation in the Coronavirus era, we have time to follow Tamdgidi in his journey into the depth of inner space, where few men have gone before. It is there that we can gain emotional strength, just as Churchill, Roosevelt and Mandela empowered themselves. That personal development was needed to address not only their own personal problems, but also the mammoth problems of their societies. We must learn to do the same." — Bernard Phillips, Emeritus Sociology Professor, Boston University

Download or read book A Lesson for the Future of Our Science written by Antonino Zichichi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume contains a tribute to Lord Patrick M S Blackett through the testimony of Professor Antonino Zichichi, who was one of Blackett's pupils in the experiment at the Sphinx Observatory, Europe's highest lab (3580 meters a.s.l.), at Jungfraujoch. The book presents an overview of Blackett's most significant discoveries, such as the so called "vacuum polarization" effect, the first example of "virtual physics" and the "strange particles", that opened a new horizon towards the existence of the subnuclear universe. After discussing the profound implications of Blackett's pioneering contributions to Subnuclear Physics, the book also recalls his deep interest in the promotion of scientific culture. Blackett was firmly convinced that physicists must be engaged directly to let the people outside our labs know what the role of science is in the progress of our civilisation. In particular, according to Blackett and his friend Bertrand Russell, the Manhattan Project was the example of how the new frontiers of science and technology would have been implemented in the future. In this respect, the role of dedicated institutions is discussed, as a new bridge between traditional university teaching and the big projects for the future of science and technology. Contents:The Reasons Why This Book Has Been WrittenAn Incredible Sequence of Unexpected Events: The Blackett, Bohr and Rabi "vital condition" for CERNBlackett and the Discovery of the Subnuclear UniverseBlackett and Russell (Galilei, Einstein, Gödel)The "Blackett Effect" in the 2nd World WarBlackett, the Cambridge Circle and the Whole of Our Knowledge Including Virtual History and the Three Big BangsNew Institutions FoundedMemory is Needed for the FutureThe FutureConclusions — From Blackett to Present Day PhysicsThe "Piersanti Mattarella Tower of Thought" and the View Which Enchanted Professor BlackettHow Things Really Happen Readership: All physicists or people interested to know Patrick MS Blackett. Key Features:Written by one of Italy's most renowned scientistsA rare insight into the contributions of Patrick M S Blackett — Nobel laureateA valuable book on how science should evolve

Download or read book Murray Gell Mann written by Harald Fritzsch and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murray Gell-Mann is one of the leading physicists in the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work on the SU(3) symmetry. His list of publications, albeit relatively short, is highly impressive — he has written mainly papers, which have become landmarks in physics. In 1953, Gell-Mann introduced the strangeness quantum number. In 1954, he proposed, together with F Low, the idea of the renormalization group. In 1958, Gell-Mann wrote, together with R Feynman, an important paper on the V-A theory of weak interactions. In 1961, Gell-Mann published his ideas on the SU(3) symmetry. In 1964, he proposed the quark model for hadrons. In 1971, Gell-Mann, together with H Fritzsch, proposed the color quantum number; and in 1972, the theory of QCD. These major publications of Gell-Mann are collected in this volume, thus providing physicists with easy access to the important publications of Gell-Mann.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of the 90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson written by K. K. Phua and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a graviton detectable? / F. Dyson -- Dark energy and dark matter in a superfluid universe / K. Huang -- Scaling the universe / N.E. Frankel -- The relativity of space-time-property / R. Delbourgo -- Monopole condensation and mass gap in SU(3) QCD / Y.M. Cho -- Quantum structure of field theory and standard model based on infinity-free loop regularization/renormalization / Y.-L. Wu -- Tenth-order QED contribution to the electron g - 2 and high precision test of quantum electrodynamics / T. Kinoshita -- The MoEDAL experiment at the LHC - A new light on the high energy frontier / J.L. Pinfold -- Leptonic CP violation and leptogenesis / S.T. Petcov -- What if the Higgs has brothers? / N.-P. Chang -- Heisenberg uncertainty relation revisited - Universality of Robertson's relation / K. Fujikawa -- Quantum systems based upon Galois fields - From sub-quantum to super-quantum correlations / L.N. Chang [und weitere] -- A solvable model of interacting many body systems exhibiting a breakdown of the Boltzmann equation / B.H.J. McKellar -- Yang-Baxter equation, Majorana fermions and three body entangling states / M.-L. Ge [und weitere] -- Overview of the study of complex shapes of fluid membranes, the Helfrich model and new applications / Z.-C. Ou-Yang and Z.C. Tu -- The importance of being integrable: Out of the paper, into the lab / M.T. Batchelor -- Freeman in 1948 / C. DeWitt-Morette -- Carbon humanism: Freeman Dyson and the looming battle between environmentalists and humanists / P.F. Schewe -- 'Dear Professor Dyson': Twenty years of correspondence between Professor Dyson and undergraduate students / D.E. Neuenschwander -- Freeman Dyson: Some early recollections / M. Longuet-Higgins -- Stability and variability / J.L. Lebowitz -- Freeman Dyson / E.H. Lieb -- Why has global warming paused? / W. Happer -- Deformed coherent state for multiparticle production mechanism / W.Y. Wang [und weitere] -- Noncommutative space-time from quantized twistors / J. Lukierski and M. Woronowicz -- Similarity solutions of Fokker-Planck equation with time-dependent coefficients and fixed/moving boundaries / C.-L. Ho -- Fermion quantum field theory in black hole spacetimes and information loss / S.A.B. Ahmad -- MESTIF - A study of the characteristics of matter-energy, space-time and information-field / J.A.K. Tan -- Superluminal propagation and acausality of nonlinear massive gravity / S. Deser [und weitere] -- An astronomer's view on climate change / D.C. Morton -- A quantum fluctuation operator for deep N-well MOSFET flicker noise modeling / E. Png -- Yang-Mills field as a subset of covariant derivative - A unified Yang-Mills field and Higgs field / W.S. Gan -- The DGP model revisited / K.F. Ng and S.C.C. Ng -- A search for primordial vortex remnants in the SDSS / A. Yang, Z.-J. Ong and A.H. Chan -- The high-Redshift galaxy counts-in-cells from the COSMOS survey / F.F. Foo, A. Yang and A.H. Chan -- Fundamental constraints on physical systems due to their own gravitation / S.K. Kauffmann -- Freeman Dyson and gravitational spin precession / N.D. Hari Dass

Download or read book Principles of Radiation Interaction in Matter and Detection written by Claude Leroy and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, like the first and second editions, addresses the fundamental principles of interaction between radiation and matter and the principles of particle detection and detectors in a wide scope of fields, from low to high energy, including space physics and medical environment. It provides abundant information about the processes of electromagnetic and hadronic energy deposition in matter, detecting systems, performance of detectors and their optimization. The third edition includes additional material covering, for instance: mechanisms of energy loss like the inverse Compton scattering, corrections due to the Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect, an extended relativistic treatment of nucleus–nucleus screened Coulomb scattering, and transport of charged particles inside the heliosphere. Furthermore, the displacement damage (NIEL) in semiconductors has been revisited to account for recent experimental data and more comprehensive comparisons with results previously obtained. This book will be of great use to graduate students and final-year undergraduates as a reference and supplement for courses in particle, astroparticle, space physics and instrumentation. A part of the book is directed toward courses in medical physics. The book can also be used by researchers in experimental particle physics at low, medium, and high energy who are dealing with instrumentation. Errata(s) Errata Contents:Electromagnetic Interaction of Radiation in MatterNuclear Interactions in MatterRadiation Environments and Damage in Silicon SemiconductorsScintillating Media and Scintillator DetectorsSolid State DetectorsDisplacement Damage and Particle Interactions in Silicon DevicesGas Filled ChambersPrinciples of Particle Energy DeterminationSuperheated Droplet (Bubble) Detectors and CDM SearchMedical Physics Applications Readership: Researchers, academics, graduate students and professionals in accelerator, particle, astroparticle, space, applied and medical physics. Keywords:Interactions Between Radiation/Particles and Matter;High;Intermediate and Low Energy Particle Physics;Medical Physics;Radiation/Particle Detection;Space Physics;Detectors;Semiconductors;Calorimeters;Chambers;Scintillators;Silicon Pixels;Radiation Damage;Single Event Effects;Solar CellsKey Features:Covers state-of-the-art detection techniques and underlying theoriesAddresses topics of considerable use for professionals in medical physics, nuclear engineering, and environmental studiesContains an updated reference table set of physical properties

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Download or read book Postmodern Geographies written by Edward W. Soja and published by Verso. This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of America's foremost geographers, Postmodern Geographies contests the tendency, still dominant in most social science, to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror, or, as Marx called it, an "unnecessary complication." Beginning with a powerful critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination, Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault, Berger, Giddens, Berman, Jameson and, above all, Henri Lefebvre, to argue for a historical and geographical materialism, a radical rethinking of the dialectics of space, time and social being. Soja charts the respatialization of social theory from the still unfolding encounter between Western Marxism and modern geography, through the current debates on the emergence of a postfordist regime of "flexible accumulation." The postmodern geography of Los Angeles, exposed in a provocative pair of essays, serves as a model in his account of the contemporary struggle for control over the social production of space.