Symmetry & Simplicity in Physics

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• FOREWORD

• RESEARCH AT CERN TO–DAY AND TO–MORROW

• RESEARCH AT CERN FROM THE FINANCE COMMITTEE POINT OF VIEW

• Physics in Japan since Y. Nishina

• PHYSICS AS A CULTURAL SCIENCE

• ARAB–ISRAELI SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION: FIRST BUDS

• PREDICTING COMPLEX PHENOMENA FROM VERY SIMPLE PRINCIPLES: THE APPLICATION OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS TO LATTICE QCD

• SYMMETRY AND SIMPLICITY IN STRING THEORY

• TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURES IN THE STANDARD MODEL AT HIGH T

• SYMMETRY AND SIMPLICITY IN STRING COSMOLOGY

• A PHASE OF STRING THEORY WITH POINT-LIKE SUBSTRUCTURE

• Strongly Interacting Higgs Sector

• b → s + γ: PAST AND FUTURE

• THE QUARK MODEL: SUCCESSES AND PROBLEMS

• SIMPLE BUT EFFICIENT TESTS OF QCD FROM TAU DECAYS

• LOCALIZED SOLITONS IN 2+1 DIMENSIONS

• MINIREVIEW OF SEVERAL NEW ASPECTS OF STRING THEORY UNCOVERED SINCE 1986

• A FUNCTIONAL AND LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION OF TWO DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGICAL GRAVITY

• A CHANGING TECHNICAL WORLD