Current Topics in Condensed Matter and Particle Physics: Non-Perturbative Phenomena and Strongly Correlated Systems (Kathmandu Summer School Lecture Notes)

Contents: Quantum Field Theory and Applications: Gauge Theory of the Normal State of High-Tc Superconductors (P A Lee & N Nagaosa); Cohomological Field Theory (R Rajaraman); Bosonization: How to Make it Work for You in Condensed Matter (R Shankar); The Chern-Simons-Landau-Ginzburg Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (S C Zhang); Old and New Topics in Conformal Field Theory (J-B Zuber); Particle Physics: Grand Unification in the Superstring Context: A Point of View and a Summary (J C Pati); A Few Topics on P and CP Violation in Nuclear and Particle Physics (Y Yamaguchi); Strong Correlations in Condensed Matter: Heavy Fermion Physics: Electrons on the Brink of Magnetism (P Coleman); Broken Symmetry Ground States of Low Dimensional Metals: Superconductors, Charge and Spin Density Waves (G Grüner); Nuclear Magnetic Ordering in Copper and Silver at Nano- and Picokelvin Temperatures (O V Lounasmaa); Magnetoencephalography - A Non-Invasive Method for Investigating Signal Processing in the Human Brain (O V Lounasmaa); An Introduction to Vortex Dynamics in Low-Tc and High-Tc Superconductors (N P Ong); Physics of Heavy Electrons in Metals: Experimental Aspects and Phenomenology (H R Ott); Metal Insulator Transitions (T V Ramakrishnan); Theory of Strongly Correlated Electrons (T M Rice); Fluctuation Contribution to the Diamagnetic Susceptibility of YBa2Cu3O7-y (R Srinivasan); Excess Conductivity in the Paracoherence Region in High Temperature Superconductors (R Srinivasan); and other papers