New Perspectives in Quantum Chromodynamics*
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In these lectures I will discuss three central topics in quantum chromodynamics: (1) the use of light cone quantization and Fock space methods to determ ine the long and -short-distance structure of quark and gluon distributions within hadrons; (2) th e role of spin, heavy quarks, and nuclei in unraveling fundamental phenomenological features of QCD; and (3) a new approach to understanding the scale and scheme dependence of perturbative QCD predictions.
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