Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of the 90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson

by Kok Khoo Phua (Editor), Phil Aik Hui Chan (Editor), Ngee-pong Chang (Editor), Leong-chuan Kwek (Editor)

Overview

Professor Freeman Dyson, a great physicist, thinker and futurist, has been very active in scientific, literary and public policy activities throughout his career. As a tribute to him on the occasion of his 90th birthday and to celebrate his lifelong contributions in physics, mathematics, astronomy, nuclear engineering and global warming, a conference covering a wide range of topics was held in Singapore from 26 to 29 August 2013. Distinguished scientists from around the world, including Nobel Laureate Professor David Gross, joined Professor Dyson in the celebration with a festival of lectures.This memorable volume collects an interesting lecture by Professor Dyson, Is a Graviton Detectable?, contributions by speakers at the conference, as well as guest contributions by colleagues who celebrated Dyson's birthday at Rutgers University and Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.About Freeman DysonFreeman John Dyson FRS, born December 15, 1923, is an eminent English-born American physicist, mathematician, and futurist. He is famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, mathematics, astronomy and nuclear engineering, as well as a renowned and best-selling author. He has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the public. He has won numerous notable awards including the Enrico Fermi Award, Templeton Prize, Wolf Prize, Pomeranchuk Prize, and Henri Poincaré Prize.

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ISBN-13:	9789814590129
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/22/2014
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Table of Contents

Preface v

Invited Lectures

Is a Graviton Detectable? F. Dyson 1

Dark Energy and Dark Matter in a Superfluid Universe K. Huang 15

Scaling the Universe N. E. Frankel 373

The Relativity of Space-Time-Property R. Delbourgo 51

Monopole Condensation and Mass Gap in SU(3) QCD Y. M. Cho 62

Quantum Structure of Field Theory and Standard Model Based on Infinity-Free Loop Regularization/Renormalization Y.-L. Wu 84

Tenth-Order QED Contribution to the Electron g - 2 and High Precision Test of Quantum Electrodynamics T. Kinoshita 148

The MoEDAL Experiment at the LHC - A New Light on the High Energy Frontier J. L. Pinfold 173

Leptonic CP Violation and Leptogenesis S. T. Petcov 179

What If the Higgs Has Brothers? N.-P. Chang 202

Heisenberg Uncertainty Relation Revisited - Universality of Robertson's Relation K. Fujikawa 212

Quantum Systems Based Upon Galois Fields - From Sub-Quantum to Super-Quantum Correlations L. N. Chang Z. Lewis D. Minic T. Takeuchi 222

A Solvable Model of Interacting Many Body Systems Exhibiting a Breakdown of the Boltzrnann Equation B. H. J. McKellar 245

Yang-Baxter Equation, Major ana Fermions and Three Body Entangling States M.-L. Ge L.-W. Yu K. Xue Q. Zhao 258

Overview of the Study of Complex Shapes of Fluid Membranes, the Helfrich Model and New Applications Z.-C. Ou-Yang Z. C. Tu 277

The Importance of Being Integrable: Out of the Paper, into the Lab M. T Batchelor 288

Freeman in 1948 C. DeWitt-Morette 301

Carbon Humanism: Freeman Dyson and the Looming Battle Between Environmentalists and Humarhsts P. F. Schewe 303

'Dear Professor Dyson': Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Professor Dyson and Undergraduate Students D. E. Neuenschwander 308

Freeman Dyson: Some Early Recollections M. Longuet-Higgins 328

Guest Contributions

Stabihty and Variability J. L. Lebowitz 348

Freeman Dyson E. H. Lieb 361

Why Has Global Warming Paused? W. Happer 366

Parallel Sessions

Deformed Coherent State for Multiparticle Production Mechanism W. Y. Wang Q. Leong W. K. Ng A. Dewanto A. H. Chan C. H. Oh 400

Noncommutative Space-Time from Quantized Twistors J. Lukierski M. Woronowicz 407

Similarity Solutions of Fokker-Planck Equation with Time-Dependent Coefficients and Fixed/Moving Boundaries C.-L. Ho 413

Fermion Quantum Field Theory in Black Hole Spacetimes and Information Loss S. A. D. Ahmad 419

MESTIF - A Study of the Characteristics of Matter-Energy, Space-Time and Information-Field J. A. K. Tan 425

Superluminal Propagation and Acausality of Nonlinear Massive Gravity S. Deser K. Izumi Y. C. Ong A. Waldron 430

An Astronomer's View on Climate Change D. C. Morton 436

A Quantum Fluctuation Operator for Deep N-Well MOSFET Flicker Noise Modeling E. Png 441

Yang-Mills Field as a Subset of Covariant Derivative - A Unified Yang-Mills Field and Higgs Field W. S. Gan 446

The DGP Model Revisited K. F. Ng S. C. C. Ng 452

A Search for Primordial Vortex Remnants in the SDSS A. Yang Z.-J. Ong A. H. Chan 458

The High-Redshift Galaxy Counts-In-Cells from the COSMOS Survey F. F. Foo A. Yang A. H. Chan 463

Fundamental Constraints on Physical Systems Due to their Own Gravitation S. K. Kauffmann 468

Freeman Dyson and Gravitational Spin Precession N. D. Hari Dass 473