Particles and fields : proceedings of the XI Jorge André Swieca Summer School : São Paulo, Brazil, 14-27 January 2001

The Jorge André Swieca Summer School is a traditional school in Latin America well known for the high level of its courses and lecturers. This book contains lectures on forefront areas of high energy physics, such as collider physics, neutrino phenomenology, noncommutative field theory, string theory and branes. Preface; Contents; Noncommutative Field Theories and (Super) String Field Theories; 1. Introduction; 2. Noncommutative Geometry. Examples; 3. Noncommutative Field Theory Models; 4. Cubic String Field Theory and Matrix Models; 5. Cubic String Field Theory on Conformal Language; 6. Cubic Super String Field Theory; 7. Cubic (Super)String Field Theory on Branes and Sen Conjectures; 8. Level Truncation and Gauge Invariance; Acknowledgments; References; Introduction to Superstring Theory; 1. Introduction and Motivation; 2. Classical Relativistic Strings; 3. Quantization of the Closed String The Jorge Andre Swieca Summer School is a traditional school in Latin America well known for the high level of its courses and lecturers. This book contains lectures on forefront areas of high energy physics, such as collider physics, neutrino phenomenology, noncommutative field theory, string theory and branes The Jorge Andre Swieca Summer School is a traditional school in Latin America. This volume contains lectures from its 11th Summer School on Particles and Fields, addressing topics such as collider physics, neutrino phenomenology, noncommutative field theory, string theory and branes