Ken Wilson Memorial Volume: Renormalization, Lattice Gauge Theory, The Operator Product Expansion And Quantum Fields

Ken Wilson Memorial Volume

Renormalization, Lattice Gauge Theory, The Operator Product Expansion And Quantum Fields

2014 • 396 pages

Machine generated contents note: 1. Effective field theory, past and future / Steven Weinberg -- 2.A critical history of renormalization / Kerson Huang -- 3. Renormalization group theory, the epsilon expansion, and Ken Wilson as I knew him / Michael E. Fisher -- 4. Early memories of Ken / N.D. Mermin -- 5. Ken Wilson -- The early years / Roman Jackiw -- 6. Kenneth Wilson in Moscow / Alexander Polyakov -- 7. Wilson's renormalization group: A paradigmatic shift / Edouard Brezin -- 8. Kenneth Wilson -- renormalization and QCD / Franz Wegner -- 9. Lattice gauge theory and the large N reduction / Tohru Eguchi -- 10. The lattice gauge field Lagrangian and Hamiltonian / Belal E. Baaquie -- 11. Ken Wilson: Solving the strong interactions / Michael E. Peskin -- 12. Renormalization group approach to quantum Hamiltonian dynamics / Stanislaw D. Glazek -- 13. RG for non-relativistic fermions / R. Shankar -- 14. Gauge theories on the Coulomb branch / John H. Schwarz -- 15. Screening clouds and Majorana fermions / Domenico Giuliano -- 16. Kenneth Wilson and lattice QCD / Akira Ukawa -- 17. Skeleton graph expansion of critical exponents in "cultural revolution" years / Bailin Hao -- 18. Personal reflections on Kenneth Wilson at Princeton and Edinburgh / David Wallace -- 19. Ken Wilson -- A Tribute: Some recollections and a few thoughts on education / H.R. Krishnamurthy -- 20. Kenneth G. Wilson: Renormalized after-dinner anecdotes / Paul Ginsparg -- 21. My memory of Ken Wilson / Anthony Zee

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