Auteur: Michael James Duff

The year 2007 marked not only the centenary of Imperial College London but also the 50th anniversary of the late Nobel Laureate Professor Abdus Salam’s arrival at the College. Accordingly, a conferen …

This volume comprises the contributions to the proceedings of Deserfest — a festschrift in honor of Stanley Deser. Many of Stanley Deser’s colleagues and longtime collaborators, including Richard Arn …

Two theories revolutionized the 20th century view of space and time: Einstein’s general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. Their union has given rise to elementary particle theories with ext …

Superstring theory and its successor, M-theory, hold promises of a deeper understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics, the unification of the four fundamental forces, the quantum theory o …

Contents:

• Supersymmetric Effective Actions in Four Dimensions (P C Argyres)
• Supermembranes and M(atrix) Theory (H Nicolai & R Helling)
• Études on D-Branes (C V Johnson)
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‘This book presents a timely set of academic and intellectual views on Salam’s scientific passion, contribution and personality, and will be of great interest to academics in the fields of particle …