The International Conference, Orbis Scientiae 1996, focused on the topics: The Neutrino Mass, Light Cone Quantization, Monopole Condensation, Dark Matter, and Gravitational Waves which we have adopted as the title of these proceedings. Was there any exciting news at the conference? Maybe, it depends on who answers the question. There was an almost unanimous agreement on the overall success of the conference as was evidenced by the fact that in the after-dinner remarks by one of us (BNK) the suggestion of organizing the conference on a biannual basis was presented but not accepted: the participants wanted the continuation of the tradition to convene annually. We shall, of course, comply. The expected observation of gravitational waves will constitute the most exciting vindication of Einstein's general relativity. This subject is attracting the attention of the experimentalists and theorists alike. We hope that by the first decade of the third millennium or earlier, gravitational waves will be detected, opening the way for a search for gravitons somewhere in the universe, presumably through the observations in the CMBR. The theoretical basis of the graviton search will take us to quantum gravity and eventually to the modification of general relativity to include the Planck scale behavior of gravity -at energies 19 of the order of 10 Ge V.

Klappentext

Proceedings of the International Conference on Orbis Scientiac 1996 held in Miami Beach, Florida, January 25-28, 1996

Inhalt
Section I Prologue.- Innermost Structure of Matter.- Unbroken Non-Abelian Gauge Symmetry and Confinement.- Section II Progress on New and Old Ideas A.- R-parity-violating Yukawa Couplings.- Grand Unified Theories from Superstrings.- Searching for Dark Matter with the Future LHC Accelerator at CERN Using the CMS Detector.- A Scale Invariant Superstring Theory with Dimensionless Coupling to Supersymmetric Gauge Theories.- Superstring Solitons and Conformal Field Theory.- Comments on Symmetry Breaking Terms in Quark Mass Matrices.- Section III Gravitational Waves.- LIGO: An Overview.- Cosmology and LIGO.- Interferometry for Gravity Wave Detection.- Section IV Neutrino Masses.- LSND Neutrino Oscillation Results.- Theoretical Ideas about Neutrino Mass.- A Bayesian Analysis of Solar Neutrino Data.- Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrino Interactions and Neutrino Telescope Event Rates.- Section V Dirac's Legacy: Light-Cone Quantization.- Dirac's Legacy: Light-Cone Quantization.- Light-Cone Quantization and Hadron Structure.- Discretized Light-Cone Quantization.- Possible Mechanism for Vacuum Degeneracy in YM2 In DLCQ.- The Vacuum in Light-Cone Field Theory.- The Transverse Lattice in 2+1 Dimensions.- Section VI The Matter of Dark Matter.- SUSY Dark Matter with Universal and Non-Universal Soft Breaking Masses.- Search for SUSY in the DØ Experiment.- Formulation of a Photosphere around Microscopic Black Holes.- A Supersymmetric Model for Mixed Dark Matter.- Light Photinos and Supersymmetric Dark Matter.- Section VII Progress on New and Old Ideas B.- Non-Universality and Post-GUT Physics in Supergravity Unification.- Pade Approximants, Borel Transform and Renormalons: The Bjorken Sum Rule as a Case Study.- Hadron Supersymmetry and Relations betweenMeson and Baryon Masses.- Constraining the QCD Coupling from the Superstring Hidden Sector.- Weak Interactions with Electron Machines: A Survey of Possible Processes.- Section VIII Exactly Soluble Quantum Models.- Matrix Elements of Local Fields in Integrable QFT.- Boundary S Matrix for the Boundary Sine-Gordon Model from Fractional-Spin Integrals of Motion.- Section IX Epilogue.- Sonoluminescence and the Heimlich Effect.- Boundary Conditions for Schwinger-Dyson Equations and Vacuum Selection.- Numerical Quantum Field Theory Using the Source Galerkin Method.