The Physical Universe: The Interface Between Cosmology, Astrophysics and Particle Physics

Gravitation and hot big-bang cosmology.- Euclideanized Einstein-Yang-Mills equations, wormholes and the ground-state wave function of a radiation dominated Universe.- Experiments with neutrinos.- Topological defects in the early universe.- The space telescope and the problems of cosmology.- Self-gravitating magnetic monopoles, global monopoles and black holes.- Understanding large-scale cosmic structure.- Metric space as a model of spacetime: Classical theory and quantization.- Galaxy formation — An update.- The hypothesis of the expansion of the universe and the global tests.- The early universe behaviour with non-minimal coupling.- Stability of compactification in Einstein-Yang-Mills theories.- Multivariate analysis and pattern recognition methods: A short review and some current directions.- Cooling of neutron stars.- Experiments in high energy physics: A brief introduction.- Nucleosynthesis in big-bang models.- The cosmological constant, third quantization and all that.- Structure of the inflationary universe.