Obs.,Charlottesville, VA, USA High Precision Cosmology. The Statistical Dynamics of the Self Gravitating Gas H.J. DE VEGA, University of Paris VI, France Fractals in Nature. University of Rome I, Italy The Field Theory Approach to the Self Gravitating Gas. The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe L. PIRO, Istituto Astrofisica Spaziale,CNR, Rome, Italy The Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays and Cosmic Neutrinos as a Probe for the Distant Universe. An updated understanding, from a fundamental and deep point of view, of the progress and current problems in the early universe, cosmic microwave background radiation, large scale structure, dark matter problem, and the interplay between them.
Special lectures are devoted to neutrinos in astrophysics and high energy astrophysics.
In addition, each Course of this series, introduces and promotes topics or subjects, which, although not being of purely astrophysical or cosmological nature, are of relevant physical interest for astrophysics and cosmology. Deep understanding, clarification, synthesis, careful interdisciplinarity within a fundamental physics approach, are goals of this series. Participants have an excellent opportunity to learn about the real state of the discipline, and to learn it in a critical way. Lectures cover from a motivation and pedagogical introduction for students and participants not directly working in the field to the last developments and recent results. All Lectures are plenary, have the same duration and are followed by a discussion.