Concepts and Trends in Particle Physics : Proceedings of the XXV Int. Universitätswochen Für Kernphysik, Schladming, Austria, February 19–27, 1986

Twenty-five years of Schladming Winter School 1. The Start Twenty-five years ago P. Urban had the idea of organizing a winter school in the Austrian mountains. The very concept of a school was not new: to bring physicists together in an environment which differs totally from the daily world of institutes and laboratories, to contrast hard classroom work in lectures by distinguished speakers with a relaxed atmosphere, to provide opportunities for entering newly developing fields and exchanging ideas, all this had already resulted in a few summer schools in southern Europe and the US. The idea of combining physics with skiing rather than swimming was, however, new. After some sampling by a few younger members of Ur­ ban's group, Schladming was selected as an appropriate place. At that time skiing was not very much developed here; there were few lifts, but a road to Hochwurzen and a regular bus service opened at least one longer track. The first meeting took place in a classroom of the local school, w here some 40 participants were squeezed into benches designed for children. In the next year we moved into the dining hall of a small inn, which does not exist any more (an attempt to serve beer during the lectures was stopped by the orga­ nizing committee). Only in later years did we find a permanent home here in the Stadtsaal. Front Matter....Pages I-IX Introduction to Kaluza-Klein-Theories....Pages 1-28 Supersymmetry/Supergravity....Pages 29-58 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Fields and Noncovariant Supergauges 31) ....Pages 59-93 From Strings to Superstrings....Pages 95-122 Superstrings and Four-Dimensional Physics....Pages 123-222 Mass Issues in the Standard Model....Pages 223-281 Critical Behaviour in Statistical QCD....Pages 283-283 Critical Behaviour in Random Field Gauge Theory [1]....Pages 285-294 Experiments Beyond the Standard Model....Pages 295-325