RECENT DIRECTIONS IN PARTICLE THEORY: FROM SUPERSTRINGS AND BLACK HOLES TO THE STD MODEL (TASI 1992) - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1992 THEORETICAL ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS
Presents the proceedings of TASI 92. Contributors discuss areas including: new rules for perturbative gauge theories; critical strings; topological field theory; nonperturbative Baryon number violation; and string compactification.
New rules for perturbative gauge theories, Z Bern; introduction to critical strings, E D'Hoker; topological field theory, R Dijkgraaf; nonperturbative Baryon number violation, M Dine; string compactification, L Dixon; matrix models, P Ginspar; detection of dark matter, K Griest; supersymmetric standard model, H Haber; black holes, J Harvey; precision tests of standard model, L Langacker; matrix models, G Moore; introduction to supersymmetry, M Rocek; neutrino physics, P Rosen; black holes, A Strominger; structure formation, M Turner; quantization of effective strings, J Cohn; nonperturbative stability of vacua and domain valls in supergravity, M Cvetic; black hole physics from Liouville Theory, S P de Alwis; effective field theory of fermi surface and high-tc superconductivity, J Polchinski; neutrino from Hell(17 keV neutrino), M turner.
