Presents papers concerning particles and fields, taken from the VIIth J.A. Swieca Summer School. Topics covered include: modern cosmology and structure formation; gauge symmetries, topologies and quantization; issues in gravitational theory; and electroweak radiative corrections.
Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Phenomenology and Grand Unification (R Arnowitt); Collider Physics (V Barger); Electroweak Radiative Corrections (W Hollik); Modern Cosmology and Structure Formation (R Brandenberger); Gauge Symmetries, Topologies and Quantization (A P Balachandran); Black and Super p-Branes in Diverse Dimensions (M Duff); Relativistic Quantum Theory and Fractional Spin and Statistics (S Forte); Two-Dimensional Gravity and Its W Generalizations (J L Gervais); Issues in Gravitational Theory and the 2 + 1 Black Hole (C Teitelboim); W-Algebras (A H Zimerman).