Preface
International Frontiers of Fundamental Physics Symposium
Series
(Fifteenth in the Series, Orihuela)
For over a decade the International Symposium Series Frontiers of Fundamental
Physics has attracted some of the greatest physicists in the world as well as many
other eminent physicists. The broad objective of the series has been to enable
scholars working in slightly different areas to meet on a single platform and
exchange ideas and status reports and even dissenting views.
The areas covered have included Astronomy and Astrophysics, Particle Physics,
Theoretical Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology, Computational Physics, and
related areas. The symposia have been held in India (multiple), Italy (multiple),
Spain, Canada, Australia, and France (multiple).
The eminent physicists who have delivered special lectures over the years,
sometimes more than once, have included Nobel Laureates, professors G.’t Hooft,
S. Chu, Charles Townes, Klaus von Klitzing, Pierre de Gennes, Douglas D Osheroff,
Sir Harry Kroto, Sir Tony Leggett, and also the likes of Prof. Yuval Ne’eman, Prof.
J. Pati, Prof. John Ellis, Prof. Asoke Sen, and several other prominent scholars.
There have also been contributed papers and posters.
The selected papers books of almost all the symposia in the series have been
published by the Universities Press (Orient Longman), Kluwer Academic, Springer,
and the American Institute of Physics.
Increasingly over the years, sessions involving students and physics education
research have also been included. In the past physicists from India and other Asian
countries including Japan and the Middle East, Europe, Russia, the USA, South
America, and elsewhere have presented papers.
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