This is a collection of lectures on topics in cosmology and elementary particles with emphasis on astrophysics. Delivered by prominent scientists, the lectures give up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of the areas covered.
Pulsars - new celestial clocks, D. Backer; gravitation and early universe cosmology, J. Barrow; large scale structure and peculiar motions in the universe, R. Giovanelli; precision tests of the standard model and top quark physics, W. Marciano; abelian instantons, particle physics and cosmology, B. Ovrut; probing the early universe - predictions and tests, D. Schramm; phase transitions in the early universe - large scale structure and baryogenesis, N. Turok; semionics - a possible theory of high temperature superconductivity, A. Zee; mapping the galaxy distribution in the Southern Hemisphere, L. da Costa; unified description of quark and lepton mass matrices, E. Ma.
