High-Energy Physics and Cosmology : Celebrating the Impact of 25 Years of Coral Gables Conferences

The 25'" Coral Gables Conference was the culmination of the series that was begun in 1964. The conferences evolved under the titles that in~lude: Symmetry Principles at High Energy; Fundamental Interactions; Orbis Scientiae; and, occasionally, Unified Symmetry in the Small and in the Large. There was a pause after the 2()1h meeting in 1983 which was dedicated to P. A. M. Dirac. The conferences were resumed in 1993. Some of the reminiscences involved the absence of great minds who attended these meetings in the past and who were no longer with us. The list includes, just to name a few: Julian Schwinger, Robert Oppenheimer, Lars Onsager, Robert Hofstater, Abdus Salam, Richard Feynman, Stanislov Ulam, P. A. M. Dirac, Lord C. P. Snow, Eugene P. Wigner, Vladimir K. Zworykin, and Dixie Lee Ray. Most of these people were among the architects of modern physics and had participated in many of the early Coral Gables Conferences. We miss them. These conferences have contributed to the progress in high energy physics and cosmology. This year, again, papers were presented on familiar topics, such as neutrino masses, age and total mass of the universe, on the nature of dark matter, and on supersymmetry. The latter has now become a perennial issue. Like the weather, we all talk about it, but, so far cannot do anything to affect it. Another favorite subject was so-called monopoles, which theoretically participate in phenomena like condensation, confinement of electric charge, confinement of monopoles themselves, etc. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Launching of the Coral Gables Conferences on High Energy Physics and Cosmology and the Establishment of the Center for Theoretical Studies at the University of Miami....Pages 5-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Neutrino Oscillations at Accelerators....Pages 21-26 Karmen: Present Neutrino-Oscillation Limits and Perspectives after the Upgrade....Pages 27-34 Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Reactions in Nuclei....Pages 35-55 Front Matter....Pages 57-57 Exotic Hadrons....Pages 59-65 Orthogonal Mixing and CP Violation....Pages 67-78 CPT Violation, Strings, and Neutral-Meson Systems....Pages 79-84 Non-Universal Soft Susy Breaking, Susy Wimps and Dark Matter....Pages 85-94 Seeing Planck Scale Physics at Accelerators....Pages 95-103 Anyonic Behavior of Quantum Group Fermionic and Bosonic Systems....Pages 105-115 Stringy P -Branes: Suggestions of Dimensional Duality....Pages 117-126 Front Matter....Pages 127-127 Physics of Mass....Pages 129-132 Progress and Prospects in the Direct Search for Supersymmetric Dark Matter Particles....Pages 133-144 Seismic Search for Strange Quark Matter....Pages 145-151 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 Gauge Symmetry in Fivebrane Conformal Field Theory....Pages 155-163 Exact Local Supersymmetry Absence of Superpartners and Noncommutative Geometries....Pages 165-178 Front Matter....Pages 179-179 Adjoint QCD 2 in Large N....Pages 181-191 Nonperturbative Renormalization in Light-Cone Quantization....Pages 193-200 Singlet-Triplet Splitting of Positronium in Light-Front QED....Pages 201-207 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Search for New Particles with Delphi at LEP2....Pages 211-222 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 W Physics Results from Delphi....Pages 223-235 Back Matter....Pages 237-239