Symmetry and Simplicity in Physics

By collecting contributions of the many scientists who have interacted with Sergio Fubini and shared his friendship and enthusiasm for unraveling the ultimate mysteries of matter, this book offers a panorama of recent and interesting achievements in experimental and theoretical particle physics, gauge and string theories and the like. It also contains some reports about the historical development of this branch of activity, with its political, financial and cultural implications for the present and future. The common feature of the contributions is the search for symmetry and simplicity in complex phenomena. The book represents a struggle toward the future without forgetting the good and the bad of the past.

• Research at CERN Today and Tomorrow (P Darriulat)
• Physics in Japan since Y Nishina (Y Yamaguchi)
• Physics as a Cultural Science (R G Dosch)
• Predicting Complex Phenomena from Very Simple Principles: The Application of Computational Methods to Lattice QCD (C Rebbi)
• Symmetry and Simplicity in String Theory (L Alvarez-Gaume)
• Topological Structures in the Standard Model at High T (R Jackiw)
• Symmetry and Simplicity in String Cosmology (G Veneziano)
• A Phase of String Theory with Point-Like Substructure (M B Green)
• Simple but Efficient Tests of QCD from Tau Decays (S Narison)
• Minireview of Several New Aspects of String Theory Uncovered Since 1986 (E Rabinovici)
• A Functional and Lagrangian Formulation of Two-Dimensional Topological Gravity (C M Becchi et al.)
• A Changing Technical World (F Bonaudi)
• and other papers