The Jorge André Swieca Summer School is a traditional school in Latin America well known for the high level of its courses and lecturers. This book contains lectures on forefront areas of high energy physics, such as collider physics, neutrino phenomenology, noncommutative field theory, string theory and branes.
Introduction to D-Branes; Renormalization of Noncommutative Field Theory; Introduction to Superstrings; Noncommutativity in Field Theory and Strings; BPS Branes in Supergravity; Monte Carlo Simulations: A Road from Theoretical Models to Experimental Observables; Phenomenology of Neutrino Masses and Mixing; QCD and Collider Physics; and other papers.