String Theory and Fundamental Interactions: Gabriele Veneziano and Theoretical Physics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives [Paperback]

This book has been prepared to celebrate the 65th birthday of Gabriele Veneziano and his retirement from CERN in September 2007. This reti- ment certainly will not mark the end of his extraordinary scienti?c career (in particular, he will remain on the permanent sta? of the Coll` ege de France in Paris), but we believe that this important step deserves a special celebration, and an appropriate recognition of his monumental contribution to physics. Our initial idea of preparing a volume of Selected papers of Professor Gabriele Veneziano, possibly with some added commentary, was dismissed when we realized that this format of book, very popular in former times, has become redundant today because of the full digitalization of all important physical journals, and their availability online in the electronic archives. We have thus preferred an alternative (and unconventional, but probably more e?ective) form of celebrating Gabrieles birthday: a collection of new papers written by his main collaborators and friends on the various aspects of th- retical physics that have been the object of his research work, during his long and fruitful career.Gabriele Veneziano: A Concise Scientific Biography and an Interview.- An Unpublished Draft by Gabriele Veneziano (1973): Non-local Field Theory Suggested by Dual Models.- Dual Resonance Models and String Theory.- The Birth of the Veneziano Model and String Theory.- The Birth of String Theory.- The Beginning of String Theory: A Historical Sketch.- The Little Story of an Algebra.- Perturbative QCD.- Parton Densities: A Personal Retrospective.- Infrared-sensitive Physics in QCD and in Electroweak Theory.- From QCD Lagrangian to Monte Carlo Simulation.- Fracture Functions.- Non-perturbative QCD.- Coherence and Incoherence in QCD Jets Dynamics (QCD Jets and Branching Processes).- The U(1)A Anomaly and QCD Phenomenology.- Planar Equivalence 2006.- Supersymmetric Guage Theories.- Instantons and Supersymmetry.- The Magnetic Monopoles SevelÃ3