Jingshin Theoretical Physics Symposium in Honor of Professor Ta-You Wu

by Hsu, Jong-Ping; Hsu, Leonardo

• ISBN13: 9789810233723
• ISBN10: 9810233728
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

Prof T-Y Wu is not only an eminent physicist with an encyclopedic knowledge, but also a motivational teacher and an influential policy maker in science and technology. The young Wu was inspired by Prof Y-T Yao, whose course on modern physics sparked an interest that burned during a long and productive career. Among Wu's achievements are 14 books and 122 papers covering subjects from atomic and molecular physics to plasmas and gases to atmospheric physics to relativity theory. Even at the age of 90 he remains active, publishing papers and lecturing on physics.Prof Wu feels grateful that he had the opportunity to educate a group of extremely talented students and, in particular, discover T D Lee's remarkable talent. Although creative talent is no doubt a product of nature, it must also be nurtured. Prof Wu has played a crucial role for an entire generation of physicists in China and has won great respect from former students such as C N Yang, T D Lee, K Huang, and countless others. Prof Wu's love of physics and his dedication in teaching and research will always be remembered.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Dr. Ta-You Wu and Academia Sinica
Preface
The Scientific Research and Teaching of Ta-You Wu	p. 1
Scientific Publications of Ta-You Wu (Selected)	p. 16
Reminiscences of My Ann Arbor Days	p. 22
Comments after Professor Wu's Talk	p. 27
Paragon of Scholars and Great Master of Physics	p. 29
The Ta-You Wu Lectures at the University of Michigan	p. 35
Einstein's Impact on Theoretical Physics	p. 61
Innovation in Physics (with Note Added Forty Years Later)	p. 73
Vibration of the Carbon-60 Molecule	p. 97
Classification and Quantum Number of Doubly-Excited [superscript 1]P[superscript o] Resonances of Helium	p. 116
Effects of Heavy and Light Hole Mixing in Quantum Well Physics	p. 135
Knot Theory and Statistical Mechanics	p. 146
Mean-Field and Perturbation Theory of Vortex-like Composite Fermions	p. 198
Angular Momentum, Quaternion, Octonion, and Lie-Super Algebra OSP(1,2)	p. 215
Quantum Tomography-Measurability of the Spin Density Matrix Revisited	p. 232
Measurability of the Spin Density Matrix	p. 238
Sum-Rule for Large-N[subscript c] QCD and Application to Heavy Quarkonia	p. 251
Leptonic Photon and Light Element Abundances	p. 265
Covariant Model of Relativistic Extended Particles Based on the Oscillator Representation of the Poincare Group	p. 269
Evidence for J[superscript PC] = 1[superscript -+] Exotic Meson Production in the [eta][pi][superscript -] System	p. 289
Decomposition Theory of Spin Connection, Topological Structure of Gauss-Bonnet-Chern Topological Current and Morse Theory	p. 301
Supersymmetry needs Left-Right Symmetry	p. 321
Using Lifetime Dilation Effects to Test Transformations Between Accelerated Frames	p. 341
The QCD Coupling Constant From Tau Decays	p. 353
Search for Quark Gluon Plasma in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions	p. 362
Modern Cosmology	p. 379
Limiting Symmetry Principle, Universal Constants and Generalized Lorentz Transformations for Non-inertial Frames	p. 393
The Absolute Nature of the Velocity of Light	p. 413
Augmenting Large Class Teaching Using the Classtalk System and the Web	p. 419
A Chronology of Ta-You Wu's Life and Career	p. 441
Data of "Elementary Particles" (1998) for Comparison with Those on pp. 82-83 in "Innovation in Physics"	p. 446
App. C: Captions and Credits of Photos	p. 454
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