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The Twenty-third Coral Gables conference on Unified Symmetry in the Small and in the Large was convened February 2-5, 1995. The shift of the traditional conference time from the last part of January was caused by the 1995 Superbowl's choice of our preferred date for their game. The conference was dedicated to reminiscences of Julian Schwinger. The death of Eugene P. Wigner in the early part of January 1995 was observed with a deep sorrow during the conference. At about that time the news of Asim Barut's death made 1995 an inauspicious year for physicists. In the meantime physics at the frontiers marched on as it did before. There were no path-breaking discoveries, but hope and persistence were still there. In 1964 (the first Coral Gables conference) if we had asked a physicist to give us a sincere opinion on what is "hot" in physics we would have expected him or her to point out the narrow area of their own research. The answer to this question in 1995 is still the same as it would have been in 1964. The mind set is a human quality and even in physics the physicist can respond like a religious believer.
List of contents
Recollections of Julian Schwinger.- Schwinger in Coral Gables.- Nonequilibrium Problems in Quantum Field Theory and Schwinger's Closed Time Path Formalism.- Second Phase of the General Theory of Relativity.- Exact Solutions for Confinement of Electric Charge via Condensation of a Spectrum of Magnetic Charges.- Calculation of Cosmological Parameters and Their Approximations in the Standard Big Bang Model.- Estimating the Energy Spectrum of Cold Dark Matter Signal.- Moment and Wavelet Analysis of Correlations in Multihadron and Galaxy Distributions.- Dilaton-Driven Inflation in String Cosmology.- Gravity Driven Inflation.- The Search for Gravitation Waves.- Reducing Thermal Noise in Interferometric Detectors of Gravitational Waves.- A Search for $${{bar{nu }}_{mu }} to {{bar{nu }}_{e}}$$Oscillation at LAMPF.- Neutrino Reactions in Nuclei in the Large and in the Small.- Physics Interest in µ+ µ- Colliders.- Spin Field Vertices and Gauge Symmetry.- Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking: Some Recent Developments.- Identification as Black Holes of All Massive Superstring States.- Effects of the Top Landau Pole on Electroweak Physics in SUSY Unification.- Integrals of Motion for the Sine-Gordon Model with Boundary at the Free Fermion Point.- Reflection Matrices and Polymers at a Surface.- The Classical Space-Time from the Chern Simons Gauge Theory of Gravity.- Theorems on Estimating Perturbartive Coefficients in Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Physics.- Highlights of the Spin '84 Meeting.- Accelerating Polarized Beams at the AGS.- Polarized Photon Beams at Fermilab.
