Download or read book Deserfest: A Celebration Of The Life And Works Of Stanley Deser written by James T Liu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises the contributions to the proceedings of Deserfest — a festschrift in honor of Stanley Deser. Many of Stanley Deser's colleagues and longtime collaborators, including Richard Arnowitt and Charles Misner of “ADM” fame, contribute insighted article. Ranging from lower dimensional gravity theories all the way to supergravity in eleven dimensions and M-theory, the papers highlight the wide impact that Deser has had in the field.