MOST UNEXP AT LHC & STATUS OF HIGH ENE..

Contents:

• Hot Theoretical Topics:
  • Ultraviolet Behavior of N = 8 Supergravity (L J Dixon)
  • Is the Best Superstring Model NP Complete? (M R Douglas)
  • Erice Lecture on Microscopic Gravity (G Dvali)
  • Supergravity: Foundations and Applications (S Ferrara)
  • Orienfold String Vacua and Strings at the LHC (D Luest)
• Seminars on Specialized Topics:
  • Status of Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics (A Bettini)
  • Experimental Evidence for Pointlike Baryons at q² = 4M_B² (S Pacetti)
  • Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter, Baryon Asymmetry and Inflation can be Explained at Once (M Shaposhnikov)
  • Results from RHIC with Implications for LHC (M J Tannenbaum)
  • Quantum Gravity without Space-Time Singularities or Horizons (G 't Hooft)
  • Diffraction in Deep Inelastic Electron Proton Scattering at HERA (G Wolf)
  • The Lesson Needed for the Future (A Zichichi)
• Highlights from Laboratories:
  • Highlights from Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (P R Sorensen)
  • The LHC and Beyond — The Energy Frontier (R D Heuer)
  • Highlights from the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (E Coccia)
  • Highlights from Fermilab (S J Parke)
• Special Sessions for New Talents:
  • Radiation Damage Studies for Silicon Sensors for the XFEL (H Perrey)
  • Notes on Chern–Simons Theory in the Temporal Gauge (A Smirnov)
  • Dark Matter via Many Copies of the Standard Model (A Vikman)

Readership: Students, researchers and academics in the field of subnuclear physics.