Proceedings of a conference in Cargese, France, in July and August 1992. Papers discuss the history of weak interactions, physics at LEP, electroweak perturbation theory, chiral perturbation theory, heavy flavor physics, physics at HERA, physics with hadron colliders, neutrino physics, inflationary"

The proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on title], held in Rhodes, Greece, June-July 1992, comprise invited and contributed papers that focus on recent experimental, theoretical, and computational developments in the study of phase alloy transformations. The coverage is in three parts:

The 13 invited papers and a transcript of the final panel discussion at the first conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (Eilat, Israel, April 1993). The topics include the atmospheric chemistry and composition of air over the North Atlantic Ocean, the climatic implicat

Many contributions to these proceeding of the May 1993 workshop are concerned with two dimensional quantum field theory. The continuous advances in the domain of two dimensional integrable theories on the lattice as well as in the continuum, including conformal field theories, Liouville field theory

In addition to those indicated by the title, the concerns of the 57 papers include quantum cryptography and computation, statistical physics, quantum devices and high-precision measurements, generating non-classical light, and atom optics. They address them from such aspects as the relation between

Contains papers from an April 1996 conference addressing the technological, economic, institutional, and social questions raised by the use of biotechnology for the protection, restoration, and sustainability of the environment. Emphasis is on the potential use of biotechnology in upstream decisions

Scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM, also known as NSOM) is a new local probe technique with a resolving power of 10--50 nm. Not being limited by diffraction, near-field optics (NFO) opens new perspectives for optical characterization and the understanding of optical phenomena, in particular in biology, microelectronics and materials science. SNOM, after first demonstrations in '83/'84, has undergone a rapid development in the past two to four years. The increased interest has been largely stimulated by the wealth of optical properties that can be investigated and the growing...

Metal-Ligand Interactions - Structure and Reactivity emphasizes the experimental determination of structure and dynamics, supported by the theoretical and computational approaches needed to establish the concepts and guide the experiments.
Leading experts present masterly surveys of: clusters, inorganic complexes, surfaces, catalysis, ab initio theory, density functional theory, semiempirical methods, and dynamics. Besides the presentations of the fields of study themselves, the papers also bring out those aspects that impinge on, or could benefit from, progress in...

Fine Particles Science and Technology deals with the preparation, characterization and technological applications of monodisperse particles in the micro to nano size range. A broad view of this frontier field is given, covering understanding the mechanisms by which uniform fine particles are formed and the search for new processes; the mechanism of the precipitation technique, requiring knowledge of the relationship between the complex solution chemistry and the products formed; the sequence of events leading to the formation of monodisperse colloids. The following topics are...