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Title: "Quantum Field Theory and QCD"

Abstract

This grant partially funded a meeting, "QFT & QCD: Past, Present and Future" held at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA on March 18-19, 2005. The participants ranged from senior scientists (including at least 9 Nobel Prize winners, and 1 Fields medalist) to graduate students and undergraduates. There were several hundred persons in attendance at each lecture. The lectures ranged from superlative reviews of past progress, lists of important, unsolved questions, to provocative hypotheses for future discovery. The project generated a great deal of interest on the internet, raising awareness and interest in the open questions of theoretical physics.

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Research Org.:
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
891184
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/41366-1
Project ID 5048124-01; TRN: US200719%%783
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-05ER41366
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; INTERNET; PHYSICS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; quantum field theory, quantum chromodynamics

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Jaffe, Arthur M. "Quantum Field Theory and QCD". United States: N. p., 2006. Web. doi:10.2172/891184.
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