Sabine Lee

Heide Glaesmer

Susan Bartels

Children Born of War: Challenges and Opportunities at the Intersection of War Tension and Post-War Justice and Reconstruction

Rudolf Ernst Peierls

Noncommutative differential geometry is a novel approach to geometry that is paving the way for exciting new directions in the development of mathematics and physics. The contributions in this volume are based on papers presented at a workshop dedicated to enhancing international cooperation between mathematicians and physicists in various aspects of frontier research on noncommutative differential geometry. The active contributors present both the latest results and comprehensive reviews of topics in the area. The book is accessible to researchers and graduate students interested in a variety of mathematical areas related to noncommutative geometry and its interface with modern theoretical physics.

Selected Private and Scientific Correspondence

Sir Rudolf Peierls

This book contains the correspondence between Hans Bethe and Rudolf Peierls, two first-rate scientists who made important contributions to 20th century physics. The document collection is of great significance for our understanding of 20th century physics, but it also illustrates many interesting political and social aspects such as the life of (r)migr(r) scientists from Nazi-Germany on both sides of the Atlantic and the political activities of nuclear scientists after the development of the atomic bomb. Furthermore, the letters exchanged between Bethe and Peierls facilitate the appreciation of information transfer between Europe and the US and they shed light on mechanisms of higher education and academic research. Spanning almost seven decades, this almost uninterrupted correspondence is a unique source of 20th century hist

The Bethe-Peierls Correspondence

Barbara Stelzl-Marx

This volume presents research from an international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral research project in which 15 doctoral researchers explored a range of issues related to the life-course experiences of children born of war in 20th-century conflicts. Children Born of War (CBOW), children fathered by foreign soldiers and born to local mothers during and after armed conflicts, have long been neglected in the research of the social consequences of war. Based on research projects completed under the auspices of the Horizon2020-funded international and interdisciplinary research and training network CHIBOW (www.chibow.org), this book examines the psychological and social impact of war on these children. It focusses on three separate but interrelated themes: firstly, it explores methodological and ethical issues related to research with war-affected populations in general and children born of war in particular. Secondly, it presents innovative historical research focussing specifically on geopolitical areas that have hitherto been unexplored; and thirdly, it addresses, from a psychological and psychiatric perspective, the challenges faced by children born of war in post-conflict communities, including stigmatisation, discrimination, within the significant context of identity formation when faced with contested memories of volatile post-war experiences. The book offers an insight into the social consequences of war for those children associated with the ‘enemy’ by virtue of their direct biological link.

Past, Present and Future

Children Born of War

In one way or another, Gerry Brown has been concerned with questions about the universe, about its vast expanse as well as about its most miniscule fundamental constituents of matter throughout his entire life. In his endeavours to understand the universe in many manifestations from nuclei all the way to the stars, he has been influenced by some of the most prominent physicists of the 20th century, and he himself, in turn, has influenced a great many scholars. This volume, a collection of articles dedicated to Gerry on his 85th birthday, contains discussions of many of the issues which have attracted his interest over the years. The contributions are written by his former students, co-authors, colleagues and admirers and they are strongly influenced by Gerry's own scientific tastes. With this compilation we want to express our respect, admiration and gratitude; we want to celebrate Gerry's scientific and scholarly achievements, the inspirational quality of his teaching and the enthusiasm which he himself displayed in his research and which stimulated so many of his students and colleagues over the decades. Contents:What is the Universe? G E Brown — His Life and Work (Sabine Lee)Toward a Fully Relativistic Theory of Quantum Information (Christoph Adami)Hadron Production in Ultra-relativistic Nuclear Collisions and the QCD Phase Diagram: an Update (P Braun-Munzinger and J Stachel)The Nuclear Shell Model for Nuclei in the Region of 208Pb (B Alex Brown)Nuclear Medium Effects from Hadronic Atoms (E Friedman and A Gal)Three-Body Interactions in Fermi Systems (B Friman and A Schwenk)Meson Assisted Strange Dibaryons (A Gal)Lattice Nuclear Force (T Hatsuda)Density-Dependent Nuclear Interactions and the Beta Decay of 14C: Chiral Three-Nucleon Forces and Brown-Rho Scaling (J W Holt, N Kaiser and W Weise)Effective Field Theory and High-Precision Calculations of Nuclear Electroweak Processes (Kuniharu Kubodera and Mannque Rho)The Vlow-k Low-Momentum Interaction and its Application to Finite-Nuclei and Neutron Stars (T T S Kuo)What a Two Solar Mass Neutron Star Really Means (James M Lattimer and Madappa Prakash)Formation and Evolution of Black Hole Binaries in the Galaxy (Chang-Hwan Lee)Chiral Symmetry and the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction (R Machleidt and D R Entem)Chiral Symmetry, Nuclear Forces and All That (Ulf-G Meiβner)Transport Properties of a Non-Relativistic Delta-Shell Gas with Long Scattering Lengths (Sergey Postnikov and Madappa Prakash)Subtle is the Manifestation of Chiral Symmetry in Nuclei and Dense Nuclear Matter (Mannque Rho)Multi-W-Z-top Bags, and their Possible Role in Cosmological Baryogenesis (Edward Shuryak)Theory of Finite Fermi Systems — The Stony Brook Jülich Interaction (J Speth, S Krewald and F Grümmer)Separation Energy, Rearrangement Energy and Single Nucleon Wave Functions in Nuclei (Igal Talmi)Holographic Nucleons (Ismail Zahed) Readership: Students, researchers and academics interested in nuclear physics, quantum physics and astrophysics. Keywords:Nuclear Physics;QED;Astrophysics;History of Physics;Quantumchromodynamics

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