Institut D'Astrophysique De Paris 13-17 November 2000
Some 25 years after the birth of inflationary cosmology this volume sets out to provide a both authoritative and pedagogical introduction and review of the state of the field. Cosmic inflation corresponds to an episode of accelerated expansion of ...
Relativistic objects in astrophysics present a diverse set of phenomena and cover vast ranges of time scales and spatial scales, but their descriptions rely on a similar backbone: production of a relativistic outflow in a central compact object an...
Cosmology and Big-bang Nucleosynthesis; Origin and Evolution of the Light Elements; Abundances and Nucleosynthesis; Dynamical and Chemical Evolution; Cosmic Evolution.