Preface

Introduction

About the Global Foundation, Inc

After Dinner Speaker Lady Blanka Rosenstiel

I. PROGRESS IN GRAVITATIONAL THEORY

New Facts on the Nature of Gravitational Force and Nonlinear Oscillations of Space

B. N. Kursunoglu

A Conjecture on the Existence of Attractive and Repulsive Gravitational Forces in the Generalized Theory of Gravitation

A. Perlmutter

Localization Issues for Robertson-Walker Branes

P. D. Mannheim

Metric-Field Approach to Gravitation and the Problem of the Universe Acceleration

L. V. Verozub

The Cosmological Constant Problem, the Spontaneously Broken Symmetry, and the Generalized Rest Energy

F. Mansouri

Einstein's Elevator

E. J. Bacinich

II. COSMOLOGICAL THEORIES AND THEIR EXPERIMENTAL IMPLICATIONS

Dark Energy from Strings

P. H. Frampton

The Big Flow

P. Sikivie

Theoretical Rates for Direct Detection of SUSY Dark Matter

J. D. Vergados

High-Redshift Radio Galaxies as a Cosmological Tool: Exploration of a Key Assumption and Comparison with Supernova Results

R. A. Daly

M. P. Mory

E. J. Guerra

Gravitational Microlensing and Blazar Variability: The Case of AO 0235+164

J. R. Webb

E. S. Howard

Cosmic Rays with 50 Joules of Energy: What, How, and from Where?

T. J. Weiler

How X-ray Experiments See Black Holes: Past, Present, and Future

L. Cominsky

Evidence for the Black Hole Event Horizon

R. Narayan

J. S. Heyl

Microscopic Black Holes as a Source of Ultrahigh Energy γ-rays

R. Casadio

B. Harms

O. Micu

After Acoustic Peaks: What's Next in CMB?

A. Cooray

Is Cosmic Acceleration Really Recent?

P. D. Mannheim

III. ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PROCESSES

Lorentz-Violating Scattering Amplitudes

D. Colladay

Extra Compact Dimensions and Fermion Mass Hierarchy

P. Q. Hung

Searching for Exceptional Physics

P. Ramond

Acceleration and Use for Physics of Polarized Proton Beams at RHIC

Y. I. Makdisi

Spin Effects in High Energy Scattering in a Simple Constituent Model

H. A. Neal

Precision Measurement of the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment

E. P. Sichtermann

Fermion Generations Birth Effect in the Two Measures Theory

E. Guendelman

A. Kaganovich

Theoretical Status of Muon (g-2)

U. Chattopadhyay

A. Corsetti

P. Nath

Simulation of Models with Adjoint Bosons in 1+1 Dimensions

S. Pinsky

I. Filippov

Progress in M-Theory

M. J. Duff

Areal Theory

T. Curtright

IV. NEUTRINOS AND CP VIOLATION

High Energy Tau Neutrinos

S. I. Dutta

M. H. Reno

I. Sarcevic

Neutrino Reactions in Nuclei and a Connection to the Neutron Number

S. L. Mintz

K-M Matrix Elements and Decays of the B Meson to J/PSI

R. Wilson

CP Violation in Hyperon and Charged Kaon Decays

M. Longo

Results from SNO

P. Skensved

A Detector for Neutrino Oscillations and Other Neutrino Interactions

A. R. Fazely

V. STUDENT PAPERS

Rare K Decays in a Model of Quark and Lepton Masses

P. Q. Hung

A. Soddu

The Reaction μ +p→Λ + νμ and the Contributions of the Pseudoscalar Form Factor

M. A. Barnett

S. L. Mintz

Quantum Discontinuity for Massive Gravity with a Cosmological Term

H. Sati

Possible Conformal N = 0 d = 4 Gauge Theories from AdS/CFT Superstring Duality?

W. F. Shively

Program

Author Index