Based on courses given at the CRM Banff summer school in 1999, this volume provides a snapshot of topics engaging theoretical physicists is at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty -first. Young physicists will find in these chapters pedagogical introductions to subjects currently active in theoretical physics, and more seasoned physicists will find a chance to share the excitement of fields outside their immediate research interests.

Autorentext
Yvan Saint-Aubin, Full Professor, Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Université de Montréal.

Inhalt
1 Lectures on Supersymmetric YangMills Theory and Integrable Systems.- 2 Lectures on Branes, Black Holes, and Anti-de Sitter Space.- 3 Easy Turbulence.- 4 BEC and the New World of Coherent Matter Waves.- 5 Beyond CFT: Deformed Virasoro and Elliptic Algebras.- 6 Mesoscopic Physics.- 7 QCD In Extreme Conditions.