This work comprises the proceedings of the APCTP-ICTP Joint International Conference, 1997. Topics covered include: QCD as a quantum link model; elementarity in open systems; lattice gauge theories with finely-grained fermions; and the M-theory five-brane.
The M-theory five-brane, J. Schwarz; QCD as a quantum link model, U.-J. Wiese; the QCD quantum abacus - a new formulation for lattice gauge theories, R. Brower; quark deconfinement transition - an exactly solvable toy model, G. Semenoff; the Rome approach to chirality, M. Testa; lattice gauge theories with finely-grained fermions, P. Hernandez; a perturbative gluon condensate?, P. Hoyer; on Schwinger-Dyson loop equation for supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, H. Itoyama; elementarity in open systems, M. Yoshimura; what can supersymmetric gauge theories and string theory learn from each other?, A. Shapere; compactification of F-theory on Calabi-Yau manifold, S. Nam; magnus force and spectral flow in fermionic superfluid, M. Stone; recent developments in integrable quantum field theories, A. Zamolodchikov; fitting of standard model parameters in anti-GUT gauge group model with degenerate vacua, H.B. Nielsen. (Part contents)