This volume comprises of papers from the Abdus Salam Memorial meeting held from 19th - 22nd November 1997 on the anniversary of the death of Professor Abdus Salam. The papers reflect the long-lasting passion of the professor for the theory of fundamental forces.

This volume comprises of papers from the Abdus Salam Memorial meeting held from 19th - 22nd November 1997 on the anniversary of the death of Professor Abdus Salam, Nobel laureate and Founder-Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. The papers reflect the long-lasting passion of the professor for the theory of fundamental forces. Most of the contributions are concerned with recent developments in the theory of superstrings, including duality, D-branes and related topics.

Recollections of Adbus Salam at Imperial College, T.W.B. Kibble
the standard model - Abdus Salam's lasting legacy, J. Ellis
going beyond the Salam-Weinberg standard model with decaying neutrinos, D. Sciama
the superworld, N. Seiberg
aspects of six dimensional supersymmetric theories, S. Randjbar-Daemi
discrete symmetries and supersymmetries - powerful tools for studying quantum mechanical systems, J. Niederle
pre-Big Bang cosmology - a long history of time?, G. Veneziano
with neutrino masses revealed, proton decay is the missing link, J.C. Pati
string theory, black holes and quantum coherence, D. Amati
topics in M-theory, E. Sezgin
a layman's guide to M-theory, M.J. Duff
quantum corrections to eleven-dimensional supergravity, M.B. Green
BPS states and supersymmetry, S. Ferrara
micro-states of the 5-dimensional black hole, S.R. Wadia
bound states of branes, K.S. Narain
minimal cycles, black holes and QFTs, C. Vafa.