Table of contents : CONTENTS......Page 8 Preface......Page 6 Series Editorial Board and other Committees......Page 12 Local Organizing Committee......Page 13 Foreword by the Editors......Page 14 Gallery......Page 16 Homages......Page 20 In Memoriam Luis Masperi (1940-2003)......Page 22 Round Table: Collaborations in Physics in Latin America......Page 26 Lectures......Page 32 An Introduction to Strings and Some of its Phenomenological Aspects......Page 34 Neutrino Phenomenology......Page 70 An Introduction to Cosmology......Page 96 Innovative Experimental Particle Physics Through Technological Advances - Past Present and Future......Page 118 Seminars......Page 144 Grand Unification and Physics Beyond the Standard Model......Page 146 QCD Evolution in Dense Medium......Page 155 Future Experiments - GRID and LHC......Page 170 BTEV: Using Heavy Quark Decays to Test the Standard Model......Page 179 Recent Results from CDF and D0 Experiments......Page 189 Matter under Extreme Conditions the ALICE Experiment......Page 200 Recent Results from PHOBOS at RHIC......Page 209 Contributions......Page 220 SO(10) as the Minimal Supersymmetric GUT......Page 222 A Supersymmetric Three-Family Model Without Higgsinos......Page 227 Area-Preserving Diffeomorphisms Groups the Majorana Representation of Spins and SU(N)......Page 231 On the Magnetized Kerr-Newman Black Hole Electrodynamics......Page 235 Supernova Neutrinos and the Absolute Scale of Neutrino Masses - A Bayesian Approach......Page 241 Loop Quantum Gravity and Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays......Page 246 QQ Bound States in an Extended QCD2 Model......Page 253 Observational Constraints on Lorentz Symmetry Deformation......Page 258 Variable-Mass Dark Matter and the Age of the Universe......Page 262 Dynamical Study of Spinodal Decomposition in Heavy Ion Collisions......Page 267 Predictions for Single Spin Asymmetries in Inclusive Reactions Involving Photons......Page 271 Bosonization and the Generalized Mandelstam-Halpern Operators......Page 277 Is There Really an Entangled State for Far Away Twin Photons?......Page 282 Use of Neural Networks to Classify Cosmic-Ray Showers According to Their Muon/EM Ratio......Page 291 A0 Polarization in pp -> pA0K+{TT+TT-)5 at 27.5 GeV......Page 297 Definition of the Polarization Vector......Page 301 The MINOS Experiment......Page 306 Study of Scintillating Counters and Their Application to V0 Detector of ALICE......Page 310 Data Selection of E0 Muon Semileptonic Decay in KTeV......Page 316 Chaotic Properties of High Energy Cosmic Rays......Page 320 Energy Spectrum of Surviving Protons......Page 325 Calculus of the Ratio e'/e in the K Meson Decay Through the 331 Model......Page 330 Use of a Scintillator Detector for Luminosity Measurements......Page 336 Simplified Forms of a Linear and Exact Set of Equations for the Gravitational Field in the Very Early Universe......Page 344 Posters......Page 350 Determination of the B-Mass using Renormalon Cancellation......Page 352 CP Violation in B -> ΦK* Decays: Amplitudes Factorization and New Physics......Page 355 Degeneracies in the Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters: Problem and Solution in Neutrino Factories......Page 357 Revision of the Neutrino Oscillation Probability in the Supernovae......Page 359 Consequences on the Neutrino Mixing Matrix from Two Zero Textures in the Neutrino Mass Matrix......Page 361 Expected Flux of High Energy Neutrinos from Observed Active Galactic Nuclei......Page 363 Masperi's Quasispin Model of the Scalar Field φ6 Theory with Soliton Solutions......Page 365 Nonstandard CP Violation in B -> D8D0TT0 Decays......Page 368 Spinor Realization of the Skyrme Model......Page 370 Author Index......Page 372