60 Years Of Yang-mills Gauge Field Theories: C N Yang's Contributions To Physics

Duringthelastsixdecades,Yang-Millstheoryhasincreasinglybecomethecornerstoneoftheoreticalphysics.Itisseeminglytheonlyfullyconsistentrelativisticquantummany-bodytheoryinfourspace-timedimensions.AssuchitistheunderlyingtheoreticalframeworkfortheStandardModelofParticlePhysics,whichhasbeenshowntobethecorrecttheoryattheenergieswenowcanmeasure.Ithasbeeninvestigatedalsofrommanyotherperspectives,andmanynewandunexpectedfeatureshavebeenuncoveredfromthistheory.Inrecentdecades,apartfromhighenergyphysics,thetheoryhasbeenactivelyappliedinotherbranchesofphysics,suchasstatisticalphysics,condensedmatterphysics,nonlinearsystems,etc.Thismakesthetheoryanindispensabletopicforallwhoareinvolvedinphysics.TheconferencecelebratedtheexceptionalachievementsusingYang-MillstheoryovertheyearsbutalsomanyothertrulyremarkablecontributionstodifferentbranchesofphysicsfromProfCNYang.ThisvolumecollectstheinvaluabletalksbyProfCNYangandtheinvitedspeakersreviewingtheseremarkablecontributionsandtheirimportanceforthefutureofphysics.