Frontiers of Science: In Celebration of the 80th Birthday of C. N. Yang FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
SYNOPSIS
Proceedings of a June 2002 symposium held in Beijing, honoring Chen Ning Yang, one of the great physicists of the 20th century. Fifty-six contributions are organized in sections on plenary session presentations, parallel sessions--grouped into sections on particle and field theory, statistical and mathematical physics, interdisciplinary topics, biophysics, condensed matter physics, astrophysics and cosmology--and banquet speeches. A sampling of topics: the laser--what it is and how it happened, neutrino physics, gauge theory at Tsinghua, emergent relativity, watching molecular systems work, functional analysis of the human genome, and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies of cuprate superconductors. No subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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