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Title

Thinking, observing and mining the universe : proceedings of the international conference : Sorrento, Italy, 22-27 September 2003 / edited by Gennaro Miele, Giuseppe Longo.

Publication

[Hackensack] New Jersey ; London : World Scientific, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Miele, Gennaro.
• Longo, G. (Giuseppe)

Description

xiii, 346 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Inflationary universe > Congresses
• Cosmology > Congresses
• Astronomy > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Planck-scale structure of spacetime and some implications for astrophysics and cosmology / G. Amelino-Camelia -- On the way to the determination of the cosmic ray mass composition by the Pierre Auger fluorescence detector : the Minimum Momentum method / C. Aramo, M. Ambrosio, C. Donalek, D. D'Urso, A. D. Erlykin, F. Guarino, A. Insolia, G. Longo and R. Tagliaferri -- Direct search for wimps / R. Bernabei, P. Belli, F. Cappella, F. Montecchia, F. Nozzoli, A. Incicchitti, D. Prosperi, R. Cerulli, C. J. Dai, H. H. Kuang, J. M. Ma and Z. P. Ye -- Ultra high energy cosmic rays / P. Blasi -- Hamiltonian gravity with variable G, [Lambda] from the renormalization group / A. Bonanno, G. Esposito and C. Rubano -- The axion as a curvaton in string cosmology models / V. Bozza, M. Gasperini, M. Giovannini and G. Veneziano -- Structure and evolution of cluster galaxies / G. Busarello, F. La Barbera, P. Merluzzi, C. Haines, A. Mercurio and M. Capaccioli -- Microlensing towards M31 : candidates and perspectives / S. Calchi Novati -- Scalar perturbations in [alpha]'-regularised pre-big bang models / C. Cartier -- Cosmological density of dark compact objects from observations of lensed QSOs / J.-F. Claeskens -- Status of ligo interferometers / E. D'Ambrosio -- Peculiar velocities field and the matter density of the universe in scalar field quintessence models / M. Demianski, E. Piedipalumbo and C. Rubano -- Impact of foregrounds on cosmic microwave background maps / G. De Zotti, C. Burigana, C. Baccigalupi and R. Ricci -- Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays and neutrinos / Diego Gonzalez-Diaz, Ricardo A. Vazquez and Enrique Zas -- The cosmic renaissance : reionization era as the new cosmological frontier / S. G. Djorgovski -- The energy-momentum tensor of quantum fluctuations in chaotic [phi][superscript 2] inflation / F. Finelli -- Neutrino oscillations : a phenomenological approach / G. L. Fogli, E. Lisi, A. Marrone, A. Palazzo, A. M. Rotunno and D. Montanino -- Late-time effects of Planck-scale cosmology : dilatonic interpretation of the dark energy field / M. Gasperini -- Prospects for exavolt neutrino astronomy / P. W. Gorham -- High-energy neutrino astronomy / F. Halzen -- Neutrino cosmology - an update / S. Hannestad -- Microlensing towards the LMC / P. Jetzer -- Present and future neutrino oscillation experiments / T. Kajita -- Energy spectra and chemical composition of cosmic rays in the PEV region / K.-H. Kampert, T. Antoni, W. D. Apel, F. Badea, K. Bekk, A. Bercuci, M. Bertaina, H. Blumer, H. Bozdog, I. M. Brancus, M. Bruggemann, P. Buchholz, C. Buttner, A. Chiavassa, A. Chilingarian, K. Daumiller, P. Doll, R. Engel, J. Engler, F. Fessler, P. L. Ghia, H. J. Gils, R. Glasstetter, A. Haungs, D. Heck, J. R. Horandel, H. O. Klages, Y. Kolotaev, G. Maier, H. J. Mathes, H. J. Mayer, J. Milke, C. Morello, M. Muller, G. Navarra, R. Obenland, J. Oehlschlager, S. Ostapchenko, M. Petcu, S. Plewnia, H. Rebel, A. Risse, M. Risse, M. Roth, G. Schatz, H. Schieler, J. Scholz, T. Thouw, G. C. Trinchero, H. Ulrich, S. Valchierotti, J. van Buren, A. Vardanyan, W. Walkowiak, A. Weindl, J. Wochele, J. Zabierowski and S. Zagromski -- Cosmological parameters and the WMAP data / A. Lewis -- Axion dark matter / E. Masso -- Determination of H[subscript 0] and the mass distribution in the lensing galaxy from the time delay effect / S. Refsdal -- The Pierre Auger observatory fluorescence detector / J. Ridky / Pierre Auger Observatory collaboration -- Laser interferometer Gw detectors : a dwarf and a giant (geo 600 and Lisa) / A. Rudiger -- Cosmic-rays and neutralino dark matter / P. Salati -- Csl-1 : first evidence for lensing by a cosmic string? / M. Sazhin, M. Capaccioli, G. Longo and O. Khovanskaya -- Dark matter and supersymmetry / S. Scopel -- Ultra high energy cosmic rays : the present position and the need for mass composition measurements / A. A. Watson -- The impact of model degeneracies on cosmological applications of gravitational lensing / O. Wucknitz -- The atmospheric monitoring with lidar for the Pierre Auger observatory / S. Argiro, R. Cester, M. Chiosso, R. Mussa, G. Sequeiros, J. Matthews, M. Mostafa, M. Roberts, A. Filipcic, M. Horvat, D. Veberic, D. Zavrtanik and M. Zavrtanik -- VST-VLT survey telescope integration status / C. Belfiore, M. Brescia, M. Capaccioli, O. Caputi, G. Castiello, F. Cortecchia, L. Ferragina, D. Fierro, V. Fiume, D. Mancini, G. Mancini, G. Marra, L. Marty, G. Mazzola, L. Parisi, L. Pellone, F. Perrotta, V. Porzio, P. Schipani, G. Sciarretta, G. Spirito, M. Valentino and G. Sedmak -- Curvature quintessence / S. Capozziello, V. F. Cardone, S. Carloni and A. Troisi -- Van Der Waals quintessence / S. Capozziello, V. F. Cardone, S. Carloni and A. Troisi -- Torsion [Lambda] term / S. Capozziello, V. F. Cardone, S. Carloni and A. Troisi -- Image analysis applied to [gamma]/Hadron discrimination in the ARGO-YBJ experiment / I. De Mitri and F. Salamida -- Antisymmetric tensor dynamics in the early universe : an evolving spacetime noncommutativity / E. Di Grezia -- The effect of cluster environment on galaxy evolution / C. Haines, A. Mercurio, P. Merluzzi, F. La Barbera, G. Busarello, M. Massarotti and M. Capaccioli -- Effects of BBN on population III stars / F. Iocco -- Restrictions on a geometrical language in gravity / M. A. Ivanov -- Probing the galaxy formation scenario by the structural properties at redshift z = 0.2 / F. La Barbera, P. Merluzzi, G. Busarello, M. Massarotti, M. Capaccioli, A. Mercurio and C. Haines -- GEO 600 - a short-arm laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detector / A. Rudiger -- LISA - a long-arm laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detector in space / A. Rudiger -- An updated nuclear reaction network for BBN / P. D. Serpico -- Active star-forming galaxies in pairs in the 2DF / G. Sorrentino, B. Kelm and P. Focardi -- Constraining neutrino magnetic moments with SOLAR and reactor neutrino data / M. A. Tortola -- Lens modelling and H[subscript 0] estimate in quadruply lensed systems / C. Tortora, E. Piedipalumbo and V. F. Cardone -- Gravitational lensing as a tool to detect gravitational waves : is the signal amplification interesting for detection? / M. Varvella, M. C. Angonin and Ph. Tourrenc -- Feasibility of a magnetic suspension for gravitational wave interferometric detectors / M. Varvella, E. Calloni, L. Di Fiore, L. Milano and N. Arnaud.

ISBN

9812386882

OCLC

• ocm59110464
• SCSB-5171695

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries