Astrophysics

This book presents Einstein's theory of space and time in detail, and describes the large-scale structure of space, time and velocity as a new cosmological special relativity.

This volume provides timely coverage of nonaccelerator astroparticle physics.

In 1975 the Marcel Grossmann Meetings were established by Remo Ruffini and Abdus Salam to provide a forum for discussion of recent advances in gravitation, general relativity, and relativistic field theories.

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of our understanding of gravity at both the experimental and the theoretical level.

This volume is dedicated to Jiri Bicak on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

This volume contains detailed articles by theorists and experimentalists in the newly developing field of astroparticle physics.

This book presents the progress in cosmic ray physics following the recent results obtained by balloon, satellite and underground experiments.

Mindsteps to the Cosmos shows how modern global civilization depends on giant leaps of understanding that have been made in the past.

This book consists of about 20 lectures on theoretical and observational aspects of astrophysical black holes, by experts in the field.

The 16th conference of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR16), held at the International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa, from 15 to 21 July, was attended by 450 delegates from around the world.

In published papers H A Bethe and G E Brown worked out the collapse of large stars and supernova explosions.

This book contains written versions of the presentations made at the 4th International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter (IDM 2002), held in York, UK, in September 2002.

There are several textbooks available on solar astronomy which deal with advanced astrophysical aspects of solar physics, and books which provide very elementary knowledge about the Sun.

The spallation neutron source (SNS) being built at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will be by far the highest flux pulsed source of epithermal neutrons in the world when it comes on line in 2006.

This book takes an excursion through solar science, science history, and geoclimate with a husband and wife team who revealed some of our sun's most stubborn secrets.

The 2002 International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA2002) was held from May 31 to June 2, 2002, in Taipei, Taiwan.

This book focuses on current topics in astronomy, astrophysics and nuclear astrophysics.

This book gives a detailed, up-to-date account of the Lense-Thirring effect and its implications for physics and astrophysics.

This book contains the proceedings of the 10th Hellenic Relativity Conference, held in Greece in 2002.

This invaluable proceedings contains contributions from leading scientists in astrophysics, cosmology and related fields such as gravitation and elementary particles physics.

The Fourth International Workshop on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics was the latest in the biennial series, held in Faro, Portugal.

What is the origin of the universe?

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th Course of the International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics.

This book presents a comprehensive and self-contained exposition of the mathematical theory of impulsive light-like signals in general relativity.

This conference was dedicated to the memory of the great scientist and teacher I Ya Pomeranchuk on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

The Lake Louise Winter Institute is held annually to explore recent trends in physics.

If standard gravitational theory is correct, then most of the matter in the universe is in an unidentified form which does not emit enough light to have been detected by current instrumentation.

The r-process is a major mechanism for producing elements heavier than Fe.

The huge amount of data obtained by surveys in all wavebands, from radio to X-rays, has allowed major progress in the understanding of Active Galactic Nuclei and of their cosmic evolution.

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to modern cosmology from an astrophysical viewpoint.

The study of presolar meteoritic grains is a new inter-disciplinary field that brings together topics from nuclear physics to astronomy and chemistry.

Scientific Cosmology is clearly one of the most active physics research fields at present, and likely to remain so in the near future.

The exploration of the subnuclear world is carried out through increasingly complex experiments covering a wide range of energies and in a large variety of environments - from particle accelerators and underground detectors to satellites and space laboratories.

Space observations are currently providing a glimpse of various new states of matter possibly present in compact stars, with terrestrial laboratories producing compelling evidence in support.

The study of dust in the universe is an exciting area in current astronomy.

Efforts to uncover the explosion mechanism of core collapse supernovae and to understand all of their associated phenomena have been ongoing for nearly four decades.

This comprehensive volume of articles from the seventh school on non-accelerator astroparticle physics presents a timely coverage of this interesting and rapidly expanding subject.

The prestigious Identification of Dark Matter workshop series was initiated to assess the status of work that attempts to identify the constitution of dark matter.

This authoritative volume provides a snapshot of the state of the art in gravitational physics and related mathematical fields, as well as a review of recent achievements and prospects for future work.

The Nobel Symposium in 2003 on String Theory and Cosmology was a gathering of many of the most active and distinguished scientists in the world, including Stephen Hawking, 2004 Nobel Prize winner David Gross, and Andrei Linde.

Three key aspects of quantum gravity are considered in this book: phenomenology, potential experimental aspects and foundational theory.

In international workshops on "e;New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics"e; held biannually, astronomers, astrophysicists and particle physicists discuss recent developments in the exciting and rapidly developing field of Astroparticle Physics.

This unique book provides a clear and lucid description of several aspects of astrophysics and cosmology in a language understandable to a physicist or beginner in astrophysics.

The ARENA Workshop in Zeuthen was the first to combine extensively the fields of acoustic and radio detection techniques for high-energetic particle cascades from cosmic neutrino interactions.

The contributions in this volume provide a snapshot of the latest research and future plans for space-borne and ground-based experiments dedicated to the observation of the gamma-ray sky.

This book is an exposition of classical mechanics and relativity that addresses the question of whether it is possible to send probes to extrasolar systems.

The contributions in this volume discuss numerous hot topics of interdisciplinary interest in plasma physics, astrophysics, and fluid dynamics.

Advances in Geosciences is the result of a concerted effort in bringing the latest results and planning activities related to earth and space science in Asia and the international arena.

The research program in gamma-ray astronomy focuses on increasing our knowledge of the nature and origin of galactic and extragalactic gamma rays, and understanding high-energy processes in the Sun, celestial objects, interstellar medium, and extragalactic space.

The ICGA series of conferences is specially aimed to serve the needs of the workers in this research area in the Asia-Pacific region.