Publisher's Synopsis
The conference focused on the issues of the behavior of systems of identical particles in quantum mechanics. These questions are important in all areas of physics, in much of chemistry (via the Pauli Exclusion Principle) and mathematics, and in the philosophy of science. The conference brought together experimentalists, theorists, and philosophers to survey work done during the past ten years that challenges the traditional view of these issues. Several papers explore connections with rapidly developing fields such as fundamental symmetries, supersymmetry, quantum gravity, and quantum computation.
