Looking Beyond The Frontiers Of Science Dedicated To The 80th Birthday Of Kk Phua

Professor Kok Khoo Phua is the Founding Director and Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Adjunct Professor of Department of Physics both at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and National University of Singapore (NUS). He is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd.When he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2009, the citation read: 'For tireless efforts to strengthen scientific research throughout Asia and promote international physics education and scholarly exchanges, and for enriching science and education through the World Scientific Publishing Company he founded.'This unique volume on the occasion of his 80th birthday is a compilation of tributes from his friends who have known him for decades along with scientific articles that celebrate his visionary approach to promote science worldwide.

Professor Roman Jackiw is a theoretical physicist renowned for his many fundamental contributions and discoveries in quantum and classical field theories, ranging from high energy physics and gravitation to condensed matter and the physics of fluids. Among his major achievements is the establishment of the presence of the famous Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomalies in quantum field theory, a discovery with far-reaching implications for the structure of the Standard Model of particle physics and all attempts to go beyond it. Other important contributions, among many, that one may mention here are the topological mass term in gravity and gauge theories, and the fractionalization of fermion number and charge in the presence of topological objects.Roman Jackiw, a Professor Emeritus at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, is the recipient of several international awards including the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics and the Dirac Medal of the ICTP. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and honorary doctor of Kiev, Montreal, Tours, Turin and Uppsala universities.To celebrate his 80th birthday, many students and colleagues of Professor Jackiw have come together to share interesting anecdotes of working with him as well as their latest research, some of it inspired by his work. Edited by his former students Antti Niemi and Terry Tomboulis together with his long-time friend KK Phua, this festschrift volume is a must-have collection for all theoretical physicists.

Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch in wonder as life expectancy and good health continue to increase in parts of the world and in alarm as they fail to improve in others.

Is a graviton detectable? / F. Dyson -- Dark energy and dark matter in a superfluid universe / K. Huang -- Scaling the universe / N.E. Frankel -- The relativity of space-time-property / R. Delbourgo -- Monopole condensation and mass gap in SU(3) QCD / Y.M. Cho -- Quantum structure of field theory and standard model based on infinity-free loop regularization/renormalization / Y.-L. Wu -- Tenth-order QED contribution to the electron g - 2 and high precision test of quantum electrodynamics / T. Kinoshita -- The MoEDAL experiment at the LHC - A new light on the high energy frontier / J.L. Pinfold -- Leptonic CP violation and leptogenesis / S.T. Petcov -- What if the Higgs has brothers? / N.-P. Chang -- Heisenberg uncertainty relation revisited - Universality of Robertson's relation / K. Fujikawa -- Quantum systems based upon Galois fields - From sub-quantum to super-quantum correlations / L.N. Chang [und weitere] -- A solvable model of interacting many body systems exhibiting a breakdown of the Boltzmann equation / B.H.J. McKellar -- Yang-Baxter equation, Majorana fermions and three body entangling states / M.-L. Ge [und weitere] -- Overview of the study of complex shapes of fluid membranes, the Helfrich model and new applications / Z.-C. Ou-Yang and Z.C. Tu -- The importance of being integrable: Out of the paper, into the lab / M.T. Batchelor -- Freeman in 1948 / C. DeWitt-Morette -- Carbon humanism: Freeman Dyson and the looming battle between environmentalists and humanists / P.F. Schewe -- 'Dear Professor Dyson': Twenty years of correspondence between Professor Dyson and undergraduate students / D.E. Neuenschwander -- Freeman Dyson: Some early recollections / M. Longuet-Higgins -- Stability and variability / J.L. Lebowitz -- Freeman Dyson / E.H. Lieb -- Why has global warming paused? / W. Happer -- Deformed coherent state for multiparticle production mechanism / W.Y. Wang [und weitere] -- Noncommutative space-time from quantized twistors / J. Lukierski and M. Woronowicz -- Similarity solutions of Fokker-Planck equation with time-dependent coefficients and fixed/moving boundaries / C.-L. Ho -- Fermion quantum field theory in black hole spacetimes and information loss / S.A.B. Ahmad -- MESTIF - A study of the characteristics of matter-energy, space-time and information-field / J.A.K. Tan -- Superluminal propagation and acausality of nonlinear massive gravity / S. Deser [und weitere] -- An astronomer's view on climate change / D.C. Morton -- A quantum fluctuation operator for deep N-well MOSFET flicker noise modeling / E. Png -- Yang-Mills field as a subset of covariant derivative - A unified Yang-Mills field and Higgs field / W.S. Gan -- The DGP model revisited / K.F. Ng and S.C.C. Ng -- A search for primordial vortex remnants in the SDSS / A. Yang, Z.-J. Ong and A.H. Chan -- The high-Redshift galaxy counts-in-cells from the COSMOS survey / F.F. Foo, A. Yang and A.H. Chan -- Fundamental constraints on physical systems due to their own gravitation / S.K. Kauffmann -- Freeman Dyson and gravitational spin precession / N.D. Hari Dass

This book presents the deterministic view of quantum mechanics developed by Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft. Dissatisfied with the uncomfortable gaps in the way conventional quantum mechanics meshes with the classical world, 't Hooft has revived the old hidden variable ideas, but now in a much more systematic way than usual. In this, quantum mechanics is viewed as a tool rather than a theory. The author gives examples of models that are classical in essence, but can be analysed by the use of quantum techniques, and argues that even the Standard Model, together with gravitational interactions, might be viewed as a quantum mechanical approach to analysing a system that could be classical at its core. He shows how this approach, even though it is based on hidden variables, can be plausibly reconciled with Bell's theorem, and how the usual objections voiced against the idea of ‘superdeterminism' can be overcome, at least in principle. This framework elegantly explains - and automatically cures - the problems of the wave function collapse and the measurement problem. Even the existence of an “arrow of time" can perhaps be explained in a more elegant way than usual. As well as reviewing the author’s earlier work in the field, the book also contains many new observations and calculations. It provides stimulating reading for all physicists working on the foundations of quantum theory.

This book contains an edited comprehensive collection of reprints on the subject of the large N limit as applied to a wide spectrum of problems in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. The topics include (1) Spin Systems; (2) Large N Limit of Gauge Theories; (3) Two-Dimensional QCD; (4) Exact Results on Planar Perturbation Series and the Nature of the 1/N Series; (5) Schwinger-Dyson Equations Approach; (6) QCD Phenomenological Lagrangians and the Large N Limit; (7) Other Approaches to Large N: Eguchi-Kawai Model, Collective Fields and Numerical Methods; (8) Matrix Models; (9) Two-Dimensional Gravity and String Theory.

This book explains the fascinating world of quarks and leptons and the forces that govern their behavior. Told from an experimental physicist's perspective, it forgoes mathematical complexity, using instead particularly accessible figures and apt analogies. In addition to the story of quarks and leptons, which are regarded as well-accepted fact, the author (who is a leading researcher at one of the world's highest energy particle physics laboratories) also discusses mysteries at both the experimental and theoretical frontiers, before tying it all together with the exciting field of cosmology and indeed the birth of the universe itself.

This important book contains selected research papers of Prof Bunji Sakita. Included are his pioneering papers on SU(6) symmetry, strong coupling theory, string theory, supersymmetry and the method of collective coordinates. There is also a vivid personal account of his journey in physics. The book brings to light some of the key concepts of modern high energy physics.