This volume includes discussion on new dynamical features in the light of (deconstruted/latticized) extra dimensions, holographic QCD, Moose/hidden local symmetry, and so on. New insights into the QCD as a prototype of strong coupling gauge theories as well as in its own right, particularly in hot and dense matter are included.
The String in an Excited Baryon (G 't Hooft); Mesons and Baryons from String Theory (S Sugimoto); Toy Model for Mixing of Two Chiral Nonets (J M Schechter); Strongly Interacting Matter at RHIC (C Nonaka); QED Corrections to Hadron and Quark Masses (Y Namekawa); Little Higgs M-Theory (H-C Cheng); A One-Family ETC Model with Top Condensation (H Fukano); Turnaround in Cyclic Cosmology (P H Frampton); Large Gauge Hierarchy in Gauge--Higgs Unification (K Takenaga); Partially Composite Two-Higgs Doublet Model (P Ko); and other papers.