Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics: Proceedings of the Eso/Cern/ESA Symposium Held at Garching, Germany, 4-7 March 2002 (Paperback)

From the contents: Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations.- Evidence for an Accelerating Universe from Type Ia Supernovae.- Cosmological Weak Lensing.- Constraining Cosmological Parameters with Observations of Galaxy Clusters.- First Light and the Reionization of the Universe.- The State of the Universe: Cosmological Parameters 2002.- Cosmological Constant Problems and Their Solutions.- Searches for Dark Matter.- Neutrino Masses and Oscillations.- The Standard Model of Particle Physics: Status and Low-Energy Tests.- High-Energy Tests of the Standard Model and Beyond.- Astroparticle Physics with the L3+C Detector.- Beyond the Standard Model.- Alpha: A Constant That is not a Constant?- Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Most Powerful Cosmic Explosions.- Astrophysics with High-Energy Gamma Rays.- Cosmic Rays at the Highest Energies.- High-Energy Neutrinos from Cosmic Rays.- Unravelling the X-Ray Background.- What Do We Really Know About Neutron Stars?- Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Centers.- The Center of the Milky Way.- Sources of Gravitational Waves.- Status and Prospect of Laser-Interferometric Gravitational Wave Astronomy.- Fundamental Physics with Space Experiments.- Astro Particle Physics from Space.- Stars and Fundamental Physics.- First Science Results from the VLT Interferometer.- Formation of Planetary Systems.- Extrasolar Planetary Systems.- Towards the Detection of Earth-Like Extra-Solar Planets.- Future Perspectives at CERN.- Future Perspectives at ESO.