Particles And Fields - Proceedings Of Viii J A Swieca Summer School

Part 1 Lectures: physics beyond the standard model, J.W.F. Valle; developments in perturbative QCD - challenges from collider physics, D. Zeppenfeld; present and future aspects of CP violation, J.L. Rosner; structure of the standard model, P. Langacker; tests of the standard model and searches for new physics, P. Langacker; quantum groups and quantum spaces, J. Wess; path integrals for quantum mechanics in curved space (or anomalies from nonlinear sigma models), P. van Nieuwenhuizen; a new description of the superstring, N. Berkopvits; integrable Lax hierarchies, their symmetry reductions and multi-matrix models, H. Aratyn. Part 2 Seminars: integrable systems and w-algebras, C.R. Fernandez-Pousa et al; conserved current and the possibility of a positive definite probability density in quantum cosmology, O. Obregon; inflationary solutions in multidimensional cosmology with perfect fluid, V.D. Ivaschuk and V.N. Melnikov; torsion and non-metricity in metric-affine gravity, A. Macias et al; 5D Chern-Simons cosmology, A. Macias et al; colliding waves in dilation-axion gravity, A. Garcia and N. Breton; the algebras of higher order currents of the fermionic Gross-Neveu model, L.E. Saltini; coupling gravity non-minimally to two scalar fields, F.G. Alvarenga and J.C. Fabris; geometrized dilation as gravity theory, J.M. Salim and S.L. Sautu.