Symmetry And Modern Physics: Yang Retirement Symposium

Yang Retirement Symposium

George Sterman, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, R Shrock

• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN:
  9789812385031
  9789812385031
• eBook ISBN:
  9789812795083
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Condensed Matter

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.

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