The Superworld III, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
The Subnuclear Series, Vol. 26

During August 1988. a group of 67 physicists from 45 laboratories in 17 countries met in Erice for the 26th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The countries represented were: Australia. Austria. Canada. China. Czechoslovakia. Denmark. France. Federal Republic of Germany. India. Italy. Poland. Portugal. Spain. Sweden. Switzerland. United Kingdom. and the United States of America. The School was sponsored by the European Physical Society (EPS). the Italian Ministry of Public Education (MPI). the Sicilian Regional Government (ERS). and the Weizmann Institute of Science. The interest in the Superworld is still very high. This is why. for the third year. the Erice School has been devoted. to a great extent. to review the many developments in Superstring. Supermembranes with their problems of quantization and compactification. All these theoretical speculations are very far from the experimental frontier. In order to keep our feet on the ground. a series of lectures was included to cover the status of CP violation. of the Heavy Leptons. together with the projects for new physics at Gran Sasso and Fermi Lab. For completeness. Julian Schwinger reviewed the great problem of Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory and Shelly Glashow gave a closing lecture on the end of Superworld. If nothing new happens. next year there will be no Superworld in Erice.

Opening Lecture.- Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory.- Theoretical Lectures.- Superstring Theory: a Survey.- Classical and Quantum Supermembranes.- Effective Lagrangians for Superstring Compactification.- Towards a Standard String Model.- Supersymmetric Particles.- Fractals in Physics.- Status of PC Violation.- Review Lectures.- Gran Sasso Physics.- Tutorial Guide to the Tau Lepton and Close-Mass Lepton Pairs.- The Fermilab Upgrade.- The Solar Neutrino Puzzle.- The LAA Project: One Year After.- The Glorious Days of Physics.- The Nucleus of Tomorrow.- Closing Lecture.- The End of Superworld III.- Closing Ceremony.- Prizes and Scholarships.- Photograph.- Participants.