
Symmetry And Modern Physics: Yang Retirement Symposium
Yang Retirement Symposium
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Symmetry And Modern Physics: Yang Retirement Symposium
Yang Retirement Symposium
About this book
C N Yang, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th Century, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957, jointly with T D Lee, for their investigation of the relationship (parity symmetry) between left- and right-handed states, leading to a discovery that astounded the world of physics — the nonconservation of parity by elementary particles and their reactions. With R L Mills, he created the concept of non-abelian gauge theories, the foundation of the modern description of elementary particles and forces. Professor Yang has worked on a wide range of subjects in physics, but his abiding interests have been symmetry principles, particle physics, and statistical mechanics.In 1999, a symposium was held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook to mark the retirement of C N Yang as Einstein Professor and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, and to celebrate his many achievements. A noteworthy selection of the papers presented at the symposium appears in this invaluable volume in honor of Professor Yang.
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- A Conservative Revolutionary
- Renormalization of Gauge Theories and Master Equation
- High Tc Superconductivity: Symmetries and Reflections
- When Atoms Behave as Waves: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser
- A Theory of Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Reconsideration of a Question Posed by Frank Yang at the 1973 Bonn Conference
- Direct T-Violation Measurements and T-Odd Effects in Decay Experiments
- Geometry Motivated by Physics
- Bethe's Ansatz: Now & Then
- The Microscopic World Unveiled by Electron Waves
- Possibilities for Spin Physics at High Energy
- Research and Development Towards X-ray Free Electron Lasers
- Remarks on Yang-Mills Theory
- The 0-T Puzzle Revisited
- Remarks for ITP Presentation C. N. Yang Symposium
- Program
- Participants
- Scientific and Related Works of Chen Ning Yang