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The International School on Cosmological Dark Matter held in Valencia in the fall of 1993 was devoted to the interplay of cosmology and particle physics, with the obvious emphasis on the Dark Matter issue. Here I present the expanded…
This is an introduction to orientifolds with emphasis on applications to duality. Based on lectures given at the 1997 Trieste Summer School on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Italy.
Lecture notes for the tutorial at the workshop HPOPT 2008 - 10th International Workshop on High Performance Optimization Techniques (Algebraic Structure in Semidefinite Programming), June 11th to 13th, 2008, Tilburg University, The…
This article describes a curricular innovation designed to help students experience authentic physics inquiry with an emphasis on computational modeling and scientific communication. The educational design centers on a new type of…
Experimental summary talk given at International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (QM2001), Stony Brook, New York, 15-20 Jan 2001.
This review examines complexity science in Heliophysics, describing it not as a discipline, but as a paradigm. In the context of Heliophysics, complexity science is the study of a star, interplanetary environment, magnetosphere, upper and…
This collection of thirty two reviewed articles covers several fields of General Topology. Several contributions represent invited presentations at the Ninth Prague Topological Symposium.
Proceedings of the second edition of the international Workshop "Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Blackholes and Naked Singularities" (Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico of Milano from May 10-12, 2007.
This paper summarizes a talk presented at the April NATO ASI on Spatiotemporal Chaos in Complex Fluids, in Santa Fe, NM. The paper gives reasons that make complex fluids good material systems for conducting experiments on pattern formation…
This contribution contains the introductory historical remarks that I presented at IAU Symposium 270 on "Computational Star Formation" held in Barcelona, Spain, May 31 - June 4, 2010. I give a personal view of some of the early histoy of…
Both of my talks at DIS2002, on Generalised Parton Distributions and Nuclear Shadowing are presented. In an appendix I summarise some of the discussions which followed the talks.
This paper is the write-up version of the theory summary talk given at the HSQCD 2008 Workshop in Gatchina, Russia. Recent theoretical developments and results are summarized focusing on works that point out new perspectives, ranging from…
This volume contains the proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages (QAPL 2012), held in Tallin, Estonia, on March 31 and April 1, 2012. QAPL 2012 is a satellite event of the European Joint…
This text is a slightly edited version of lecture notes for a course I gave at ETH, during the Winter term 2000-2001, to undergraduate Mathematics and Physics students. Contents: Chapter 1 - Examples of Dynamical Systems Chapter 2 -…
This is a write-up of the lectures given by the author during the Master Class "Categorification" at {\AA}rhus University, Denmark in October 2010.
This paper summarises oral contributions to the parallel session {\it Complex and conformal methods in classical and quantum gravity} which took place during the 20th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation held in…
Talk given at Orbis Scientiae Conference, Coral Gables, FLA, Dec. 16-19, 1999. Talk surveys some recent three-neutrino models of neutrino masses and mixings.
We describe recent attempts at discretizing canonical quantum gravity in four dimensions in terms of a connection formulation. This includes a general introduction, a comparison between the real and complex connection approach, and a…
Invited talk delivered at the International Conference on General Relativity and Cosmology (ICGC), Ahmedabad, India; 13 - 18 December 1991. To appear in its proceedings.
Review paper. Chapter 6 in Janus Particles Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Applications pages 108-137, Edited by Steve Granick and Shan Jiang (RCS Publishing 2012) http://www.rsc.org/Shop/books/2012/9781849734233.asp