These proceedings survey the latest developments in a wide area of mathematical physics as presented by internationally renowned experts. The fields surveyed are High Energy Physics, String Theory, Relativity, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Plasma Physics and Formal Aspects of Mathematical Physics. Some of the exciting topics discussed in this volume are fundamental questions about black holes and string theory, supermassive black holes, string theory and the quantum structure of space-time, AdS space-time and holography, the cosmological constant, non-commutative geometry, quantum gravity, symmetries in general relativity, recent developments in neutrino physics and astrophysical plasmas.

Contents:

• Noncommutative Geometry: Fuzzy Spaces, the Groenwald-Moyal Plane (A P Balachandran & B A Qureshi)
• Recent Applications of the Weyl Anomaly (M J Duff)
• Detecting Two-Photon Exchange Effects in Hard Scattering from Nucleon Targets (P Hoodbhoy)
• Neutrino Physics (Riazuddin)
• What String Theory has Taught Us About the Quantum Structure of Space-time (M M Sheikh-Jabbari)
• Gauge Theory Description of the Fate of the Small Schwarzschild Blackhole (S R Wadia)
• Quiescent and Catastrophic Events in Stellar Atmospheres (S M Mahajan & N L Shatashvili)
• Invariance under Complex Transformations, and Its Relevance to the Cosmological Constant Problem (G 't Hooft & S Nobbenhuis)
• Gravitational Collapse with Negative Energy Fields (J V Narlikar)
• Quantum Non-Locality, Black Holes and Quantum Gravity (A Qadir)
• Measuring Parameters of Supermassive Black Holes with Space Missions (A F Zakharov) and other papers

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