Superstrings 89 Proceedings Of The Trieste Spring School

Contents:Lectures on RCFT (G. Moore & N. Seiberg)Some Statistical Mechanical Models and Conformal Field Theories (P Ginsparg)Lectures on N = 2 Superconformal Theories and Singularity Theory (N P Wamer)Lectures on N = 2 String Theory (D. Gepner)Compactification of Superstrings (MDine)Rolling among Calabi-Yau Vacua (P Candelas, P S Green & T Hubsch)Conformal Field Theory and Geometric Quantization (H. Verlinde & E. Verlinde)Universal Moduli Space and String Theory (A S Schwarz)Reparametrization BRS Cohomology in Two-Dimensional Gravity and Non-Critical String Theories (K Fujikawa)Sigma Models and Renormalization of String Loops (A A Tsey tlin)Baby Universes (A Strominger) Readership:

Preface -- Lectures on RCFT / G. Moore & N. Seiberg -- Some statistical mechanical models and conformal field theories / P. Ginsparg -- Lectures on N=2 superconformal theories and singularity theory / N.P. Warner -- Lectures on N=2 string theory / D. Gepner -- Compaction of superstrings / M. Dine -- Rolling among Calabi-Yau vacua / P. Candelas, P.S. Green & T. Hübsch -- Conformal field theory and geometric quantization / H. Verlinde & E. Verlinde -- Universal Moduli space and string theory / A.S. Schwarz -- Reparametrization BRS cohomology in two-dimensional gravity and non-critical string theories / K. Fujikawa -- Sigma models and renormalization of string loops / A.A. Tseytlin -- Baby universes / A. Strominger

This volume deals with the exciting new subject of superstrings. It contains important lectures by some of the leading workers in this field and should be exceptionally useful to the physics community.

The proceedings reflect a broad spectrum of topics in contemporary theoretical physics: quantum aspects of black holes; recent progress in critical and noncritical string theory; spin chains quantum hall effect and generalized statistics; stochastic dynamics turbulence and reaction kinetics; foundations of quantum mechanics; new statistics in field theory; quantum field theory on Riemann surfaces and knot theory; lattice field theories. The lectures present developments in the frontiers of these subjects and provide interdisciplinary links between the areas.