Concepts and Trends in Particle Physics: Proceedings of the XXV Int. Universitätswochen für Kernphysik, Schladming, Austria, February 19-27, 1986

Twenty-five years of Schladming Winter School 1. The Start Twenty-five years ago P. Urban had the idea of organizing a winter school in the Austrian mountains. The very concept of a school was not new: to bring physicists together in an environment which differs totally from the daily world of institutes and laboratories, to contrast hard classroom work in lectures by distinguished speakers with a relaxed atmosphere, to provide opportunities for entering newly developing fields and exchangi...