CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Director's Welcoming Address -- Astrophysical Neutrinos: 20th Century and Beyond -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Solar neutrinos -- 3 Extragalactic neutrinos -- 4 Goals for Astrophysical neutrinos: 2000-2010 -- The Case for Discrete Energy Levels of a Black Hole -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Adiabatic Invariance and Black Hole Mass Quantization -- 3 Black Hole Algebra -- 4 The Area Spectrum -- 5 The Degeneracy Factor and Black Hole Entropy -- References -- A Century of Gravity: 1901-2000 (Plus Some 2001) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 On Whose Shoulders? -- 3 The Heroic Era: 1901-1950 -- 4 Modern and Postmodern 1950-2000 -- 5 Progress and Mysteries -- a Summary -- 6 A 2001 Sample: Surprises from Higher Spin Fields in (A)dS -- References -- Spontaneous CP Violation: Alternative to the Standard Model -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Duark Model -- 3 CP Violation in The Neutral Kaon Sector -- 4 Direct CP Violation in B-Meson Decays -- 5 The Strong CP Problem -- 6 Rare Semi-Leptonic Kaon Decays -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- The Measure of Cosmological Parameters -- 1 General Background Cosmology and Assumptions -- 2 The Total Matter/Energy Density -- 3 The Cosmological Constant / Dark Energy -- 4 The Matter Density / Dark Matter -- 5 The Hubble Constant -- 6 The Optical Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) -- 7 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Progress in Weakly Coupled String Phenomenology -- 1 Introduction: Approaches to the Theory of Everything -- 2 The E8 x E8 Heterotic String -- 3 The Runaway Dilaton: A Brief Abridged History -- 4 Features of the Condensation Model -- 5 Other Issues in Cosmology -- 6 Issues: Realistic Orbifold Models -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- Spacetime Quantum Mechanics -- References -- My Life as a Boson: The Story of "the Higgs" -- Inflation and String Cosmology.

1 First versions of inflationary theory -- 2 Chaotic inflation -- 3 Inflation and observations -- 4 General setup for ekpyrotic universe -- 5 The sign of the visible brane tension: ekpyrotic scenario versus pyrotechnic scenario -- 6 Static action and three-brane solution -- 7 Origin of the potential V(Y) -- 8 Towards 5d cosmology -- 9 Density perturbations and the homogeneity problem -- 10 Conclusions -- References -- Spacetime and Vacuum as Seen from Moscow -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Pomeranchuk on vacuum -- 3 Landau on parity P and combined parity CP -- 4 Search and discovery of K0L -> TT+TT- -- 5 "Mirror world" -- 6 Zeldovich and cosmological term -- 7 QCD vacuum condensates -- 8 Sakharov and baryonic asymmetry of the universe BAU -- 9 Kirzhnits and phase transitions -- 10 Vacuum domain walls -- 11 Monopoles strings instantons and sphalerons -- 12 False vacuum -- 13 Inflation -- 14 Brane and bulk -- References -- Gauge Fields and Space-Time -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The general picture -- 3 The entropy of gauge invariant words -- 4 Words and vertices -- 5 Weak and strong coupling -- 6 The Outlook -- References -- The Symmetry or Lack of it between Matter and Antimatter -- References -- Anomaly Cancellation: A Retrospective from a Modern Perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Anomaly Analysis -- 3 Type I Superstring Theory -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- The Dark Side of the Universe -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A brief history of dark matter probes -- 3 What is the dark matter? -- 4 "Observing" non-baryonic dark matter -- References -- Making Sense of the New Cosmology -- 1 The New Cosmology -- 2 Cosmic Mysteries -- 3 Dark Energy: Seven Lessons -- 4 Closing Remarks -- References -- Geometry and Spacetime -- 1 Holonomy group -- 2 Mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau manifolds -- 3 Manifolds with G2 holonomy.

4 Consequence of mirror symmetry in algebraic geometry -- 5 General relativity -- References -- Nonabelian Gauge Theories on Noncommutative Spaces -- 1 Introduction -- 2 General Review -- 3 The Ghost Field and the Coboundary Operator -- 4 The Homotopy Operator -- 5 Constraints -- References.