Contents:Critical Current Density of High-Temperature Superconductors (P Chu)Electroweak Symmetry-Breaking Effects at Colliders (V Barger)Precision Tests of the Electroweak Theory (R D Peccei)Hadron Colliders: B Factories for Now and the Future (N S Lockyer)The MSW Effect as the Solution to the Solar Neutrino Problem (S P Rosen)New Physics Effects from String Models (R Arnowitt & P Nath)Solar Neutrino Puzzle and Physics Beyond the Standard Model (R N Mohapatra)The SFT: A Super Fixed Target Beauty Facility at the SSC (B Cox)Non-Standard Stellar Evolution (V Trimble)Analogous Behaviour in the Quantum Hall Effect, Anyon Superconductivity, and the Standard Model (R B Laughlin & S B Libby)Gauge Boson Dynamics (C Quigg)Interpreting Precision Measurements (G L Kane)Rare K Decays: Present Status and Future Prospects (S G Wojcicki)Quantum Mechanics at the Black Hole Horizon (G't Hooft)Target-Space Duality and the Curse of the Wormhole (J H Schwarz)Mass Enhancement and Critical Behavior in Technicolor Theories (T Appelquist)Proton-Proton and Proton-Antiproton Elastic Scattering at High Energies — Theory, Phenomenology, and Experiment (T T Wu) Readership: Graduate students and high energy physicists. keywords:

The first precision measurements on CP violation in the B system are reported. Both the BELLE and the BABAR collaboration presented, among others, results for sin 2ß with much improved accuracy. Results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, SNO, also deserve to be mentioned. The convincing evidence of solar neutrino oscillations had been presented by SNO prior to the conference; a full presentation was given at the conference. An incredibly precise measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is reported, a fresh result from the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Apart from these distinct physics highlights, there are also the first results from the new Tevatron run and from the relativistic heavy ion collider RHIC. Theorists write of our ever better understanding of the Standard Model and of what might lie beyond. Risky as it is to highlight only a couple of exciting subjects, it is merely meantto whet the appetite for further reading.

These proceedings consist of plenary rapporteur talks covering topics of major interest to the high energy physics community and parallel sessions papers which describe recent research results and future plans.

The 28th conference from the Rochester series was the major high energy physics conference in 1996. Volume one contains short reports on new theoretical and experimental results. Volume two consists of the review talks presented in the plenary sessions.

High Energy Physics 99 contains the 18 invited plenary presentations and 250 contributions to parallel sessions presented at the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics. The book provides a comprehensive survey of the latest developments in high energy physics. Topics discussed include hard high energy, structure functions, soft interactions, heavy flavor, the standard model, hadron spectroscopy, neutrino masses, particle astrophysics, field theory, and detector development.

This was the most recent in a highly esteemed series of biannual Rochester conferences. 20 invited reviews and about 200 invited contributions on all aspects of current research in high energy and particle physics give a complete and lively account of achievements, activities and goals in the field. Topics discussed include results from proton-antiproton and electron-positron colliders, spectroscopy and decays of heavy flavors, weak mixing and CP violation, non-accelerator particle physics, heavy ion collisions, future accelerators, detector developments, the standard electroweak model and beyond, the status of perturbative QCD, superstrings and unification, new developments in field theory, non-perturbative methods, and cosmology and astrophysics.