Contemporary Physics, Volume 56, Issue 1 (2015)

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Editorial

Editorial
Editorial – International Year of Light
Peter Knight
Page: 1
Published online: 02 Mar 2015
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Review articles

Article
Nature’s optics and our understanding of light
M.V. Berry
Pages: 2-16
Published online: 29 Oct 2014
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Gravitational Lensing: Einstein’s unfinished symphony
Tommaso Treu & Richard S. Ellis
Pages: 17-34
Published online: 02 Mar 2015
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How fundamental are fundamental constants?
M.J. Duff
Pages: 35-47
Published online: 02 Dec 2014
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Nano-optomechanics with optically levitated nanoparticles
Levi P. Neukirch & A. Nick Vamivakas
Pages: 48-62
Published online: 07 Nov 2014
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Ion Coulomb crystals
Richard C. Thompson
Pages: 63-79
Published online: 13 Jan 2015
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Essay reviews

Review
Mathematics is everything, maybe
Scope: general interest. Level: general readership
David Bailin
Pages: 80-84
Published online: 03 Dec 2014
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A Concise Treatise on Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space
Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher.
William T. Coffey
Pages: 85-87
Published online: 14 Nov 2014
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Book reviews

Book Review
Computational Photonics: An Introduction with MATLAB, by Marek S. Wartak
Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate.
Charlie Ironside
Page: 88
Published online: 02 Mar 2015
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High-order Harmonic Generation in Laser Plasma Plumes, by Rashid Ganeev
Scope: review. Level: early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist
Mario Bertolotti
Pages: 88-89
Published online: 16 Sep 2014
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Madame Wu Chien-Shiung: The First Lady of Physics Research, by Tsai-Chien Chiang/translated by Tang-Fong Wong
Scope: review. Level: general readership
Mark Nicol
Pages: 89-90
Published online: 28 Aug 2014
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Book Review
Intelligible Design: A Realistic Approach to the Philosophy and History of Science, by Julio A. Gonzalo and Manuel M. Carreira
Scope: general interest, monograph. Level: general readership, researcher, scientist, engineers
Chih-Yueh Wang
Page: 90
Published online: 01 Sep 2014
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Book Review
The Physics of Nanoelectronics: Transport and Fluctuation Phenomena at Low Temperatures, by Tero T. Heikkilä
Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate
Keith A. Benedict
Pages: 90-91
Published online: 04 Sep 2014
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Book Review
Einstein Relatively Simple: Our Universe Revealed in Everyday Language, by Ira Mark Egdall
Scope: general interest. Level: general readership
Salvatore Esposito
Page: 91
Published online: 28 Aug 2014
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Book Review
An Introduction to Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena and Quantum Dissipation, A.O. Caldeira
Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher
Tom Lancaster
Page: 92
Published online: 22 Aug 2014
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Book Review
A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists
Scope: review. Level: undergraduate
Mark Nicol
Pages: 92-93
Published online: 05 Sep 2014
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Book Review
Symmetry and Fundamental Physics: Tom Kibble at 80, edited by Jerome Gauntlett
Scope: review. Level: scientist
H. Osborn
Pages: 93-94
Published online: 01 Sep 2014
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Book Review
Quantum Social Science, by Emmanuel Haven and Andrei Khrennikov
Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher
Manuel Vogel
Page: 94
Published online: 29 Sep 2014
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Book Review
Fundamentals of Picoscience, edited by Klaus D. Sattler
Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers
Nikolaos E. Myridis
Page: 95
Published online: 24 Sep 2014
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Book Review
Physics and Our World: Reissue of the Proceedings of a Symposium in Honor of Victor F Weisskopf
Scope: history of science. Level: general reader
Norman Dombey
Pages: 95-96
Published online: 30 Sep 2014
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Book Review
Physics and Chemistry of Circumstellar Dust Shells, by Hans-Peter Gail and Erwin Sedlmayr
Scope: text book. Level: specialist
B. Ishak
Page: 97
Published online: 22 Sep 2014
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Book Review
Symmetry Relationships between Crystal Structures: Applications of Crystallographic Group Theory in Crystal Chemistry, by Ulrich Müller
Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, Specialist
H. Osborn
Pages: 97-98
Published online: 13 Oct 2014
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Book Review
Back-of-the-envelope Quantum Mechanics: With Extensions to Many-body Systems and Integrable PDEs, by Maxim Olshanii
Scope: textbook/supplementary text. Level: undergraduate and postgraduate
Alexander Pikovski
Page: 98
Published online: 10 Oct 2014
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Book Review
The Oxford Handbook of the history of physics edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox
Scope: reference. Level: general readership
Bob Joseph
Pages: 98-99
Published online: 23 Oct 2014
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Book Review
40 Years of Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless Theory, edited by Jorge V. José
Scope: monograph. Level: specialist
S.J. Blundell
Pages: 99-100
Published online: 10 Oct 2014
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Book Review
One Hundred Physics Visualisations Using Matlab (With DVD-ROM), by Dan Green
Scope: Review. Level: Undergraduate
J. Rogel-Salazar
Page: 100
Published online: 09 Oct 2014
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Book Review
Essential Physics, by John Matolyak and Ajawad Haija
Scope: textbook. Level: pre-university
B. Ishak
Page: 101
Published online: 13 Oct 2014
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Book Review
Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model, by Matthew D. Schwartz
Scope: text Book. Level: postgraduate
Thomas Peters
Pages: 101-102
Published online: 13 Oct 2014
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Book Review
Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics (2nd Edition), by Alessandro Bettini
Scope: text book. Level: undergraduate, teacher
B. Ishak
Page: 102
Published online: 15 Oct 2014
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Book Review
From Photons to Higgs: A Story of Light (2nd Edition), by Moo-Young Han
Scope: general interest. Level: non-specialists, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, teacher, scientist
David L. Andrews
Pages: 102-103
Published online: 15 Oct 2014
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Book Review
Ceramic Lasers, by Akio Ikesue, Yan Lin Aung, and Voicu Lupei
Scope: monograph. Level: researcher
K. Alan Shore
Pages: 103-104
Published online: 21 Oct 2014
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Book Review
Probing the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics: Physical, Philosophical and Logical Perspectives, edited by Diederik Aerts, Sven Aerts and Christian de Ronde
Scope: edited book. Level: researcher
Peter J. Bussey
Page: 104
Published online: 12 Jan 2015
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Book Review
Techniques in High Pressure Neutron Scattering, by Stefan Klotz
Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate
Stephen Hull
Pages: 104-105
Published online: 18 Nov 2014
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Book Review
Nuclear Dawn: F.E. Simon and the race for Atomic Weapons in World War II, by Kenneth D. McRae
Scope: review. Level: general readership
Brian Cowan
Page: 105
Published online: 18 Nov 2014
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Book Review
Lasers and Electro-Optics: Fundamentals and Engineering (2nd Edition), by Christopher C. Davis
Scope: text book. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, engineers
Peter R. Hobson
Pages: 105-106
Published online: 18 Nov 2014
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Corrigenda

Correction
Corrigendum
Page: 107
Published online: 02 Dec 2014
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Page: 108
Published online: 08 Oct 2014
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