Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics: Proceedings of the ESO/CERN/ESA Symposium Held in Garching, Germany, 4-7 March 2002

Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations....Pages 1-12
Evidence for an Accelerating Universe from Type Ia Supernovae....Pages 13-24
Cosmological Weak Lensing....Pages 25-34
Constraining Cosmological Parameters with Observations of Galaxy Clusters....Pages 35-38
First Light and the Reionization of the Universe....Pages 39-49
The State of the Universe: Cosmological Parameters 2002....Pages 50-69
Cosmological Constant Problems and Their Solutions....Pages 70-78
Searches for Dark Matter....Pages 79-90
Neutrino Masses and Oscillations....Pages 91-104
The Standard Model of Particle Physics: Status and Low-Energy Tests....Pages 105-116
High-Energy Tests of the Standard Model and Beyond....Pages 117-138
Astroparticle Physics with the L3+C Detector....Pages 139-142
Beyond the Standard Model....Pages 143-164
Alpha: A Constant That Is Not a Constant?....Pages 165-173
Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Most Powerful Cosmic Explosions....Pages 174-193
Astrophysics with High Energy Gamma Rays....Pages 194-215
Cosmic Rays at the Highest Energies....Pages 216-226
High-Energy Neutrinos from Cosmic Rays....Pages 227-242
Unravelling the X-Ray Background....Pages 243-252
What Do We Really Know About Neutron Stars?....Pages 253-261
Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Centers....Pages 262-266
The Center of the Milky Way....Pages 267-270
Sources of Gravitational Waves....Pages 271-281
Status and Prospect of Laser-Interferometric Gravitational Wave Astronomy....Pages 282-302
Fundamental Physics with Space Experiments....Pages 303-315
Astro Particle Physics from Space....Pages 316-333
Stars and Fundamental Physics....Pages 334-342
First Science Results from the VLT Interferometer....Pages 343-346
Formation of Planetary Systems....Pages 347-358
Extrasolar Planetary Systems....Pages 359-370
Towards the Detection of Earth-Like Extra-Solar Planets....Pages 371-380
Future Perspectives at CERN....Pages 381-396
Future Perspectives at ESO....Pages 397-411
Inflationary Perturbations from Non-Scale Invariant Potentials....Pages 415-416
QSO Absorption Lines as a Cosmological Probe: Exploring the Lyman Forest with VLT/UVES....Pages 417-418
Higher Order Corrections to Lensing Parameters for Extended Gravitational Lenses....Pages 419-420
Testing Cosmological Models with Negative Pressure....Pages 421-422
Determination of the Hubble Constant from Quadruply Imaged Gravitational Lens Systems....Pages 423-424
The Sky Polarization Observatory (SPOrt) Programme....Pages 425-426
EUSO - Extreme Universe Space Observatory....Pages 427-428
Hubble Constant or Hubble Variable H?: Why Is the “Exact” H Not Discovered?....Pages 429-431
The NASA - MIDEX Swift Mission....Pages 432-433
The Latest on the Database of Galaxies at High Redshifts....Pages 434-435
Serendipitous Detection of Radio Pulses from Evaporating Black Holes, GRBs and Extragalactic Supernova Using SETI@home....Pages 436-437
High Energy Photon Flux Prediction from Neutralino Annihilation in M 31....Pages 438-440
A New Unifying Field Spacetime Structure....Pages 441-443
Visualization of Gravitational Lenses....Pages 444-445
Evolution of Density Fluctuations in a Universe Dominated by su (2)-Valued Yang-Mills Fields....Pages 446-447
High Energy Photon Flux Prediction from Neutralino Annihilation in the Globular Cluster Palomar 13....Pages 448-449
Connections Between Quantum Theory and Cosmology: An Unconventional View....Pages 450-452
The Prtotype Synchrotron Radiation Detector....Pages 453-454
Cosmic Shear from STIS Pure Parallels - II. Analysis....Pages 455-456
Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment....Pages 457-458
First High-Resolution Observations of the Lyman $\\alpha$ Forest at 0.9 < z < 1.7....Pages 459-460
Finding Atmospheres of Extra-Solar Planets in High-Dispersion Near-Infrared Spectra....Pages 461-462
A New X-Ray Probe for Supermassive Black Holes in Non-Active Galaxies....Pages 463-464
EUSO: From Raw Data to Scientific Results....Pages 465-466
Cosmic Alignment Towards the Radio Einstein Ring PKS 1830-211....Pages 467-468
Gauge-Ready Formulation of the Cosmological Kinetic Theory and CMBR Anisotropy....Pages 469-470
APPLES: A Parallel Slitless Imaging Survey for ACS....Pages 471-472
Radiative Effects in the Modelling of Accretion onto Stellar Magnetospheres....Pages 473-474
The Dynamic Steady State Universe: A Qualitative Unification Model....Pages 475-476
ARCHEOPS: A Large Sky Coverage Balloon-Borne Experiment for Mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background....Pages 477-478
The European Ultra-High Precision Stellar Photometry Road Map for Asteroseismology and Planet Finding....Pages 479-480
BaR-SPOrt: Balloon-Borne Radiometers for Sky Polarization Observations....Pages 481-482
Effects of Gravitational Lensing on the Hubble Diagram in Quintessence Cosmology....Pages 483-484
Problems of Cosmological Darwinian Selection and the Origin of Habitable Universes....Pages 485-486
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis of Lithium-7 and the Baryon Density of the Universe....Pages 487-488
Introducing Astronomical Topics at the University of Cooperative Education....Pages 489-490
Photometric Redshifts Using Submm Wavelengths....Pages 491-492
Practical Problems with the Light Curves of GRB Afterglows....Pages 493-494
Dark Matter in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies....Pages 495-496
Cosmological Test of Brane Models....Pages 497-498