Frontiers Of Science: In Celebration Of The 80th Birthday Of C N Yang

Hwa-tung Nieh

• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN:
  9789812384072
  9789812384072
• eBook ISBN:
  9789812791207
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Nuclear Physics

The International Symposium on Frontiers of Science was held to celebrate the 80th birthday of Chen Ning Yang, one of the great physicists of the 20th century and arguably the most-admired living scientist in China today. Many of the world's great scientists — including sixteen Nobel laureates, Fields medallists and Wolf Prize winners — converged on Beijing from all corners of the globe to pay tribute to Professor Yang.The Symposium was organized by Tsinghua University, with which Professor Yang has had a lifelong relationship. In 1997, he helped to found the Center for Advanced Study at Tsinghua, was appointed to the university's faculty, and has since devoted his energy to the growth of the Center.This unique and invaluable birthday volume is a collection of the presentations made at the Symposium, including fifteen plenary talks, seven of which are by Nobel laureates. It covers a wide range of topics and mirrors Professor Yang's research and intellectual interests. The range of fields encompasses high-energy, condensed-matter, mathematical, applied, bio-, astro-, atomic and quantum physics. Also included are talks given at the birthday banquet.About C N YangBorn in 1922 in Anwhei, China, C N Yang was brought up in the academic atmosphere of Tsinghua University in Beijing, where his father was a professor of mathematics. He received his college education at the National Southwest Associated University in Kunming, China, and completed his BSc there in 1942. His MSc was received in 1944 from Tsinghua University. He entered the University of Chicago in 1946, where he came under the strong influence of Prof E Fermi. After receiving his PhD in 1948, Prof Yang served for a year at the University of Chicago as an instructor. Since 1949 he has been associated with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, where he became a professor in 1955.Prof Yang has worked on various subjects in physics, but is mainly interested in statistical mechanics and symmetry principles. He is a prolific author, his numerous articles appearing in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, The Physical Review, Reviews of Modern Physics and the Chinese Journal of Physics.Prof Yang won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, jointly with T-D Lee. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of Academia Sinica.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• The International Symposium on Frontiers of Science
• THE LASER — WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT HAPPENED
• NEUTRINO PHYSICS
• GAUGE THEORY AT TSINGHUA
• EMERGENT RELATIVITY
• WATCHING MOLECULAR SYSTEMS WORK, ONE AT A TIME
• FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN GENOME: STUDY OF GENETIC DISEASE
• ANGLE-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY STUDIES OF CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTORS
• SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN 4-ANGSTROM CARBON NANOTUBES
• UNDERSTANDING HIGH Tc SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
• THE HIDDEN INFORMATION IN THE STANDARD MODEL
• SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE MECHANIZATION OF MENTAL LABOR IN THE COMPUTER AGE
• RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS
• IMAGING THE QUANTUM WORLD USING THE PHASE OF ELECTRON WAVES
• BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION IN A DILUTE GAS; THE FIRST 70 YEARS AND SOME RECENT EXPERIMENTS
• Production of a Bose Einstein condensate of metastable helium atoms
• BROKEN UNITARITY OF THE SM
• SPATIOTEMPORAL COMPLEXITIES AT THE SUBNUCLEAR LEVEL OF MATTER
• POLARIZATION EFFECTS IN B →V1V2 AND SUBSEQUENT DECAYS
• QUANTUM FIELD THEORY WITHOUT REGULARIZATION AND HARD DIVERGENCE: SHORT-DISTANCE BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS AND ANOMALOUS CONTRIBUTIONS IN QED
• QFT, STRINGS AND LOW-DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGY
• BEIJING ELECTRON-POSITRON COLLIDER: RESULTS AND FUTURE PLAN
• RENORMALIZATION OF THE NEUTRINO MASS MATRIX
• YANG-MILLS DUALITY AS THE ORIGIN OF FERMION GENERATIONS
• FERMION MASS AND MIXING PATTERNS FROM A ROTATING MASS MATRIX
• FLAVOUR-CHANGING DECAYS OF CHARGED K AND B MESONS WITH THE EMISSION OF LEPTON-ANTILEPTON PAIR
• GENERALIZED FIBONACCI NUMBERS AND DIMER STATISTICS
• EXTENDED SELF-SIMILARITY AND THE MOST INTENSE VELOCITY STRUCTURES IN TURBULENT RAYLEIGH-BĚNARD CONVECTION
• QUANTUM INTEGRABLE SYSTEM WITH MULTI-COMPONENTS IN TWO DIMENSIONS
• NEW LOCALIZED EXCITATIONS IN (2+l)-DIMENSIONAL INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS
• NONEQUILIBRIUM NONDISSIPATIVE THERMODYNAMICS A NEW FIELD OF MODERN THERMODYNAMICS
• 4D QUANTUM HALL FLUID OF YANG'S SU(2) MONOPOLE, NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY AND INTEGRABLE MODELS
• WRINGING OUT NEW BELL INEQUALITIES FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS (QUTRITS)
• A SIMPLE SYMMETRY OF THE MONOPOLE HARMONICS
• GREEN'S FUNCTION APPROACH TO GLOBAL PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN INFORMATION PROCESSING
• QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITION AND ENGINEERING IN TWO-COMPONENT BEC IN OPTICAL LATTICES
• EARLY-UNIVERSE PHASE TRANSITIONS AND YANG-MILLS THEORIES
• QUANTUM NON-INTEGRABLE PHASE FACTOR AND INTEGRAL FORMALISM FOR GAUGE FIELD
• AB INITIO CALCULATIONS OF THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES AND BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF PROTEIN MOLECULES
• MESOSCOPIC CIRCUIT WITH LINEAR DISSIPATION
• MODEL FOR THE GROWTH OF BACTERIAL GENOMES
• MICROSCOPIC SELF-ORGANIZATION IN NETWORKS AND REGULAR LATTICE
• PROKARYOTIC PHYLOGENY BASED ON COMPLETE GENOMES WITHOUT SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT
• THE ELASTIC THEORY OF A SINGLE DNA MOLECULE
• HISTOPHYSICS: A NEW DISCIPLINE
• NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THEORY OF VORTEX STATES IN TYPE-II SUPERCONDUCTORS
• PHASE RETRIEVAL AND INDUCTION MAPPING OF ARTIFICIALLY STRUCTURED MICROMAGNETIC ARRAYS
• ARTIFICIAL METAL NANOCLUSTER CRYSTALS
• GENERALIZED UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE AND DARK MATTER
• ANALYSIS AND PROBABILITY LAWS
• A Theoretical Alchemist
• After-Banquet Speech
• Talk by Ya-Qin Zhang, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia
• Speech by Dunson Cheng
• A Calligraphy Gift for C. N. Yang on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday
• BANQUET SPEECH, JUNE 2002
• List of Participants