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Stanley Deser is a preeminent theoretical physicist who made
monumental contributions to general relativity, quantum field
theory and high energy physics; he is a co-creator of supergravity.
This is his personal story, intended for a broad, scientifically
curious audience, with emphasis on the historic figures that
defined the modern aspects of the field.Beginning with an account
of his early life in Europe during the fateful period leading up to
WW2, it continues with his family's dramatic escape from the Nazis
through their arrival to the US. His education at public
institutions including Brooklyn College nurtured his love of
physics from an early age. He earned his PhD at Harvard and spent
fruitful postdoc years at the Institute for Advanced Study and the
Niels Bohr Institute, where he met many of the luminaries of the
field. Then followed a long career at Brandeis University and many
visits to foreign institutions.His work earned him many awards and
led to exotic experiences detailed in the later chapters. The
appendices contain semi-technical descriptions of some essential
physics, as well as a more general commentary about the role of
physics and physicists in understanding the universe.
Stanley Deser is a preeminent theoretical physicist who made
monumental contributions to general relativity, quantum field
theory and high energy physics; he is a co-creator of supergravity.
This is his personal story, intended for a broad, scientifically
curious audience, with emphasis on the historic figures that
defined the modern aspects of the field.Beginning with an account
of his early life in Europe during the fateful period leading up to
WW2, it continues with his family's dramatic escape from the Nazis
through their arrival to the US. His education at public
institutions including Brooklyn College nurtured his love of
physics from an early age. He earned his PhD at Harvard and spent
fruitful postdoc years at the Institute for Advanced Study and the
Niels Bohr Institute, where he met many of the luminaries of the
field. Then followed a long career at Brandeis University and many
visits to foreign institutions.His work earned him many awards and
led to exotic experiences detailed in the later chapters. The
appendices contain semi-technical descriptions of some essential
physics, as well as a more general commentary about the role of
physics and physicists in understanding the universe.
The conclusive volume of the Brandeis University Summer
Institute lecture series of 1970 on theories of interacting
elementary particles consisting of five sets of lectures. The five
sets of lectures are as follows: Rudolph Haag (II. Institut fur
Theoretische Physik der Universitat Hamburg) on "Observables and
Fields": introduction; axiomatic quantum field theory in various
formulations; structure of superselection rules; charge quantum
numbers; statistics; parastatistics.Maurice Jacob (CERN, European
Organization for Nuclear Research) on "Regge Models and Duality":
introduction; duality in a semi-local way; duality and unitary
symmetry; dual models for meson-meson scattering; dual models for
production proceses; from dual models to a dual theory.Henry
Primakoff (University of Pennsylvania) on "Weak Interactions":
introduction; lepton conversation and the implications of a
possible lepton non-conversation; first-order and second-order weak
collision processes; "abnormalities in the weak currents and how to
discover them; conclusion.Michael C. Reed (Princeton University)on
"The GNS Construction -- A Pedagogical Example": infinite tensor
products of Hilbert spaces; the canonical anti-commutation
relations; the example; the example -- via the GNS
construction.Bruno Zumino (CERN, European Organization for Nuclear
Research) on "Effective Lagrangians and Broken Symmetries":
Introduction; effective action and phenomenological fields; Ward
identities and the effective action; Goldstone's theorem;
non-linear realizations; massive Yang-Mills fields as
phenomenological fields; broken scale invariance; the fifteen
parameter conformal group and the Weyl transformations; conversion
identities and trace identities; invariant actions; SU(3)xSU(3)and
conformalinvariance; strong gravitation; concluding remarks.
The first volume of the Brandeis University Summer Institute
lecture series of 1970 on theories of interacting elementary
particles, consisting of four sets of lectures. Every summer since
1959 Brandeis University has conducted a lecture series centered on
various areas of theoretical physics. The areas are sufficiently
broad to interest a large number of physicists and the lecturers
are among the original explorers of these areas. The 1970 lectures,
presented in two volumes, are on theories of interacting elementary
particles. The four lecturers of Volume 1, and the range of the
topics they cover, are as follows: Stephen L. Adler (Institute for
Advanced Study) on "Perturbation Theory Anomalies": introduction
and review of perturbation theory; the VVA triangle anomaly;
absence of radiative corrections; generalizations of our results;
connection between Ward identity anomalies and commutator
(Bjorken-limit) anomalies; applications of the Bjorken limit; and
breakdown of the Bjorken limit in perturbation theory. Stanley
Mandelstam (University of California at Berkeley) on "Dynamical
Applications of the Veneziano formula for the four-point scalar
amplitude; factorization; the operator formalism; Veneziano-type
quark models; and higher-order Feynman-like diagrams. Steven
Weinberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) on "Dynamic and
Algebraic Symmetries": Introduction; hadron electrodynamics; local
symmetries; and chirality. Wolfhart Zimmermann (New York
University) on "Local Operator Products and Renormalization in
Quantum Field Theory": introduction; renormalization; operator
product expansions; and local field equations. The second volume
contains lectures by Rudolf Haag on observables and fields, by
Maurice Jacob on duality, by Michael Reed on non-Fock
representations, and by Bruno Zumino on effective Lagrangians and
broken symmetries.
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