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Introduction -- The issue of fundamental interactions -- Life and work of Antonio Aurilia -- The Physics from the electroweak to the Planck scale -- Particle sectors beyond the Standard Model -- Noncommutative and nonlocal quantum field theory -- Supergravity, superstrings and quantum gravity -- Evaporating black holes and black hole thermodynamics -- Quantum pregeometry and Planckian black holes -- Analogue gravity systems -- Higher dimensional spacetimes and terascale quantum gravity -- Dimensionally reduced Universe and Planck time cosmology -- Future perspectives -- Summary of the proposed results and potential developments -- Experimental observations in the near future -- Final remarks and conclusions. Contributors: Robert Balbinot (Bologna U. & INFN, Bologna), Patricio Gaete (CCTVal, Valparaiso & Santa Maria U., Valparaiso), José A. Helayël-Neto (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF), Robert Mann (Waterloo U. & Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.), Jonas Mureika (LMU, Los Angeles), Hermann Nicolai (Potsdam, MaxPlanck Inst.), Douglas Singleton (Fresno State), Anais Smailagic (INFN, Trieste), Euro Spallucci (Trieste U. & INFN, Trieste), Paul K. Townsend (Cambridge U., DAMPT). |