One of the key missions of Computational Science is to drive to a solution the challenges posed by several scientific and technological problems. Satisfactory solutions to these problems, however, can be worked out only through massive computational campaigns exploiting the innovative features of...

These proceedings contain the lecture notes of the 2002 Trieste Spring School on String Theory, by B. Acharya, N. Berkovits, K. Hori, J. Maldacena, F. Quevedo and B. Zwiebach. The lectures covered essentially all the most interesting latest developments in String Theory around that period. B....

(Dedicated to H. Bass on the occasion of his 70th birthday). The School and Conference on Algebraic K-theory which took place at ICTP July 8-26, 2002 was a follow-up to the earlier one in 1997, and like its predecessor, the 2002 meeting endeavoured to emphasise the multidisciplinary aspects of...