Cosmology and the universe

The construction of large interferometers for gravitational wave detection is now in progress in Europe and in the United States.

A special forum on critical issues in cosmology in celebraton of Princeton University's 250th birthday.

Since the successful refurbishment mission, the Hubble Space Telescope has made dramatic and exciting progress in unravelling the nature of sources at high redshift.

This book focuses on nucleosynthesis and chemical evolution of the universe.

There can be little doubt now that 90-99% of the Universe comprises dark matter.

This volume contains the talks presented at the International Workshop on Aspects of Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics (DARK '96).

The Sixth Moscow Quantum Gravity Seminar was a continuation of the series of seminars which has played an important role in the consolidation of the international quantum gravity community and which has greatly affected the development of the field.

This book is devoted to one of the most relevant problems of modern cosmology: the formation of structures in the framework of big bang cosmology.

The purpose of this meeting was to cover selected topics of high current interest in the interplay between cosmology and fundamental physics.

These proceedings will contain both general reviews on particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology and detailed discussions on some specific topics.

The Proceedings contain lectures given at the 8th annual Physics Summer School held at The Australian National University.

This proceedings volume contains contributions from leading scientists working on modelling and numerical simulation of flows through porous media and on mathematical analysis of the equations associated to the modelling.

Since 1975, the triennial Marcel Grossmann Meetings have been organized in order to provide opportunities for discussing recent advances in gravitation, general relativity and relativisitic field theories, emphasizing mathematical foundations, physical predictions, and experimental tests.

This volume documents the theoretical and observational results and arguments in favour of (or against) the most preferred models of structure formation.

This volume is devoted mainly to one of the more relevant subjects of the last two decades, namely, Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models.

This book contains the lectures delivered at the Fourth Paris Cosmology Colloquium held at the Observatoire de Paris from June 4 - 9, 1997.

The main goal and impact of modern string theory is to provide a consistent quantum theory of gravity.

In this volume recent developments in the nonperturbative aspects of string theory, duality in N = 1 string compactifications, orientifolds and F-theory as well as the matrix model description of M-theory are reported.

Since 1963, the Texas Symposia have been a biennial, peripatetic forum for forefront developments on a wide range of topics in relativistic astrophysics, from pulsars to string theory, from the birth of the universe to the death of stars.

Understanding the largest physical structures in the universe is essential for the comprehension of the cosmos as a whole.

Since 1975, the Marcel Grossmann Meetings have been organized to provide opportunities for discussing recent advances in gravitation, general relativity and relativistic field theories, emphasizing mathematical foundations, physical predictions and experimental tests.

This volume outlines the status of fundamental physics at the threshold of the 21st century.

This volume presents introductory lectures on the Standard Model and Higgs physics, as well as QCD.

The book collects 29 papers which have been particularly influential in the development of accretion theory.

Inflation has revolutionized cosmology primarily because it has eliminated the dependence of cosmological modelling on initial conditions.

This volume comprises lectures delivered at the First Equatorial School of Relativistic Astrophysics.

This book presents methods of studying transonic flows applicable to various astrophysical circumstances.

The first of its kind, the Symposium on the Future of the Universe and the Future of our Civilization examined the current status and future evolution of the Universe, the Galaxy, the stars and the Sun.

The book's principal aim is to clarify fundamental concepts, decipher mathematical structures used to model space-time and relativistic worlds, and to disclose their physical meaning.

This book offers an original hypothesis capable of unifying evolution in the physical universe with evolution in biology; herewith it lays the conceptual foundations of "e;transdisciplinary unified theory"e;.

Time is considered as an independent entity which cannot be reduced to the concept of matter, space or field.

This volume of important papers by one the world's leading astrophysicists provides a sweeping survey of the incisive and exciting applications of nuclear and particle physics to a wide range of problems in astrophysics and cosmology.

This book describes the subject of electrodynamics at classical as well as quantum level, developed as an interaction at a distance.

The study of Comet Halley in 1986 was a tremendous success for cometary science.

This volume comprises original and review articles on the frontier problems of the gravitation theory, theoretical and mathematical physics.

This book deals with special relativity theory and its application to cosmology.

This is the first book to deal with Titan, one of the most mysterious bodies in the solar system.

Since the 1980s the cross-disciplinary, multidimensional field of links between cosmology and particle physics has been widely recognised by theorists, studying cosmology, particle and nuclear physics, gravity, as well as by astrophysicists, astronomers, space physicists, experimental particle and nuclear physicists, mathematicians and engineers.

This unique volume is a collection of papers on various problems in astrophysics and cosmology - from planetary motion to the arrow of time - that are closely linked by the common spirit, technique and methodology of chaos.

This book provides an up-to-date understanding of the progress and current problems of the interplay of nonlocality in the classical theories of gravitation and quantum theory.

The problem of time is a central feature of quantum cosmology: differing from ordinary quantum mechanics, in cosmology there is nothing "e;outside"e; the system which plays the role of clock, and this makes difficult the obtention of a consistent quantization.

This is the proceedings of an international conference on the evolution of matter in the Universe, with emphasis on the following topics: big bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic ray nucleosynthesis, stellar nucleosynthesis, galactic chemical and dynamical evolution, and evolution with redshift and cosmic chemical evolution in general.

Two theories revolutionized the 20th century view of space and time: Einstein's general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

This volume presents the newest results and developments in the fast-moving field of astroparticle physics.

It is generally felt in the cosmology and particle astrophysics community that we have just entered an era which later can only be looked back upon as a golden age.

This is an invaluable collection of colloquium-type lectures given by some of the most prominent theoretical physicists of today.

The PASCOS (International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology) series brings together the leading experts and most active young researchers in the closely related fields of elementary particle physics, string theory and cosmology/astrophysics.

This book provides a comprehensive and self-contained exposition of gravitational lensing phenomena.

Black holes exist in galactic nuclei and in some X-ray binaries found in our own galaxy and the large Magellanic Cloud.