Introduction and Overview (E. Bick, F.D. Steffen) -- Topological Concepts in Gauge Theories (F. Lenz) -- Aspects of BRST Quantization (J.W. van Holten) -- Chiral Anomalies and Toplogy (J. Zinn-Justin) -- Supersymmetric Solitons and Topology (M. Shifman) -- Forces From Connes`Geometry (T. Schücker).Application of the concepts and methods of topology and geometry have led to a deeper understandi…
Planck Scale Kinematics and the Pierre Auger Observatory -- Quantum Gravity -- Introduction to Quantum-Gravity Phenomenology -- Astrophysical Bounds on Planck Suppressed Lorentz Violation -- Introduction to Doubly Special Relativity -- Interferometry as a Universal Tool in Physics -- Inflationary Cosmological Perturbations of Quantum--Mechanical Origin -- CPT Violation and Decoherence in Quantu…
An Introduction to the Physics of the Early Universe -- Cosmological Perturbation Theory -- Cosmic Microwave Backgrond Anisotropies -- Oberservational Cosmology -- Dark Matter and Dark Energy -- String Cosmology -- Brane-World Cosmology -- Gravitational Wave Astronomy: the High Frequency Window -- Computational Black Hole Dynamics.The Physics of the Early Universe is an edited and expanded vers…
ElectroWeak Symmetry Breaking as of 2003, on the Way to the Large Hadron Collider -- Current Status of the CKM Matrix and the CP Violation -- Neutrino Masses -- Neutrinos -- Baryo- and Leptogenesis (Outline) -- Scalar Fields in Particle Physics in Cosmology -- Inflation, Quantum Fluctuations and Cosmological Perturbations -- Cosmic Microwave Background Cosmology -- Cosmology with Supernovae 1A …
Knot Invariants and Configuration Space Integrals (Christine Lescop) -- Euclidean Quantum Field Theory on Commutative and Noncommutative Spaces (Raimar Wulkenhaar) -- Introduction to String Compactification (Anamaria Font, Stefan Theisen) -- Index Theorems and Noncommutative Topology (Thierry Fack).This volume offers an introduction, in the form of four extensive lectures, to some recent develo…