Thinking, observing and mining the universe : proceedings of the international conference : Sorrento, Italy, 22-27 September 2003 / edited by Gennaro Miele, Giuseppe Longo
Foreword ; Invited and Oral Presentations ; Planck-Scale Structure of Spacetime and Some Implications for Astrophysics and Cosmology ; On the Way to the Determination of the Cosmic Ray Mass Composition by the Pierre Auger Fluorescence Detector: The Minimum Momentum Method
Direct Search for Wimps Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays ; Hamiltonian Gravity with Variable G A from the Renormalization Group ; The Axion as a Curvaton in String Cosmology Models ; Structure and Evolution of Cluster Galaxies ; Microlensing Towards M31: Candidates and Perspectives
Scalar Perturbations in a-Regularised Pre-Big Bang Models Cosmological Density of Dark Compact Objects from Observations of Lensed QSOS ; Status of Ligo Interferometers ; Peculiar Velocities Field and the Matter Density of the Universe in Scalar Field Quintessence Models
Impact of Foregrounds on Cosmic Microwave Background Maps Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos ; The Cosmic Renaissance: Reionization Era as the New Cosmological Frontier ; The Energy-Momentum Tensor of Quantum Fluctuations in Chaotic o2 Inflation
Neutrino Oscillations: A Phenomenological Approach Late-Time Effects of Planck-Scale Cosmology: Dilatonic Interpretation of the Dark Energy Field ; Prospects for Exavolt Neutrino Astronomy ; High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy ; Neutrino Cosmology -- An Update ; Microlensing Towards the LMC
Summary
This is a collection of review articles and more specialized papers on the main issues of early universe physics. Both theoretical and experimental fields of research are dealt with. Contents: <ul><li>Direct Search for Wimps (R Bernabei et al.) </li><li>Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (P Blasi) </li><li>Structure and Evolution of Cluster Galaxies (G Busarello et al.) </li><li>Status of Ligo Interferometers (E D'Ambrosio) </li><li>The Cosmic Renaissance: Reionization Era as the New Cosmological Frontier (S G Djorgovski) </li><li>High-Energy Neutrino Astron
