Overview: This symposium was organized at the B.M. Birla Science Centre,Hyderabad, India, and provided a platform for frontier physicists toexchange ideas and review the latest work and developments on avariety of interrelated topics. A feature of the symposium, as well asthe proceedings, is the B.M. Birla Memorial Lecture by Nobel LaureateProfessor Gerard ‘t Hooft. There were participants from the USA,several European countries, Russia and CIS countries, South Africa,Japan, India and elsewhere, of whom some forty scientists presentedpapers. Spanning a wide range of contemporary issues in fund
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