This volume contains the lecture notes of the VI J A S Summer School. The topics covered are particle physics phenomenology, dynamical symmetry breaking, conformal theory.

This book contains the proceedings of the IXth Jorge André Swieca Summer School — Particles and Fields — held at Campos do Jordao in February 1997.It surveys some of the most interesting research topics in theoretical physics, like duality theory, quantum field theory in curved space-time, supersymmetry and the standard model, differential geometry and its applications in physics and cosmic ray physics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the X Jorge André Swieca Summer School — Particles and Fields. It includes topics on non-commutative geometry, constructive quantum field theory and duality in quantum field theory, as well as various subjects in high energy physics and phenomenology.

The Jorge Andr(r) Swieca Summer School is a traditional school in Latin America well known for the high level of its courses and lecturers. This book contains lectures on forefront areas of high energy physics, such as collider physics, neutrino phenomenology, noncommutative field theory, string theory and branes. Contents: Noncommutative Field Theories and (Super) String Field Theories (I Ya Aref''eva et al.); Introduction to Superstring Theory (N Berkovits); Selected Topics in Integrable Models (A Das); Monte Carlo Simulation: A Road from Theoretical Models to Experimental Observables (R Z Funchal); Renormalization in Noncommutative Field Theory (M Gomes); What is behind the Tricks of Data Analysis in High Energy Physics (P Gouffon); The Physics of Hadron Colliders (D Green); Lectures on Noncommutative Theories (S Minwalla); Introduction to Perturbative QCD (P Nason); High Energy Cosmic Rays (R C Shellard); Brane Solutions in Supergravity (K S Stelle); Introductory Lectures on D -Branes (I V Vancea); Physics at Hadron Colliders (J Womersley). Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high energy physics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the X Jorge André Swieca Summer School — Particles and Fields. It includes topics on non-commutative geometry, constructive quantum field theory and duality in quantum field theory, as well as various subjects in high energy physics and phenomenology.

The J. A. Swieca Summer School series is organized by the Brazilian Physics Society. The VIII school was dedicated to topics in astrophysics, chaos, nuclear structure and reactions, and to QCD in nuclear physics.