Theoretical Physics at the End of the Twentieth Century Lecture Notes of the Crm Summer School, Banff, Alberta

This volume provides a snapshot of topics engaging theoretical physicists at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. Based on seven of the courses given at the 1999 CRM Summer School in Banff, the chapters provide timely, diverse and exciting views of their fields. The contributions include:- Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and integrable systems (E. D'Hoker and D.H. Phong) - Branes, black holes and anti-De Sitter space (M.J. Duff)- Turbulence (K. Gawedzki)- Bose--Einstein condensation and coherent matter waves (A. Griffin) - Deformed Virasoro and elliptic algebras (S. Odake) - Mesoscopic physics (B. Simons, A. Atland) - QCD in extreme conditions (F. Wilczek) Young physicists will find in these chapters pedagogical introductions to subjects currently active in theoretical physics, and more seasoned physicists will find a chance to share the excitement of fields outside their immediate research interests.Saint-Aubin, Yvan is the author of 'Theoretical Physics at the End of the Twentieth Century Lecture Notes of the Crm Summer School, Banff, Alberta', published 2001 under ISBN 9780387953113 and ISBN 0387953116.