edited by H J de Vega (LPTHE, Univ. Paris VI) & N Sánchez (Observatoire de Paris Demirm)

The purpose of this meeting was to cover selected topics of high current interest in the interplay between cosmology and fundamental physics. It brought together physicists, astrophysicists and astronomers and allowed easy and fruitful mutual contacts and communication among them. Topics covered this year include: phase transitions in cosmology and evolution out of the equilibrium of quantum fields, fundamental strings and cosmic strings in cosmology, dark matter and large scale structure, black holes and quantum gravity.

• Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Current and Future Experiments (G Smoot)
• Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Spectrum from Primordial Density Perturbations (G Smoot)
• The Nature of Dark Matter and Some New Methods in Observational Cosmology (I Novikov et al.)
• A Review of Gravitational Microlensing Experiments (M Spiro)
• New Concepts about Galaxy Evolution as Constraints on Large-Scale Structures (D Pfenniger)
• The Dynamics of Groups and Clusters of Galaxies and Links to Cosmology (G Mamon)
• Large-Scale Structure without N-Body Simulations (P Coles)
• The Cosmological Constant: Plus ça Change, Plus c'est la même Chose (J Frieman)
• Quantum Gravity and Black Hole Entropy (V Frolov)
• String Theory in Curved Spacetimes Self Consistent String Cosmology (H J de Vega &N Sánchez)
• String Cosmology: Basic Ideas and General Results (G Veneziano)
• Amplification of Vacuum Fluctuations in String Cosmology Backgrounds (M Gasperini)
• Nonperturbative Condensates in the Electroweak Phase Transition (B Bergerhoff & C Wetterich)
• Electroweak Phase Transition and Numerical Simulations in the SU(2) Higgs Model (I Montvay)
• Inflationary Universe Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Quantum Field Theory (D Boyanovsky et al.)
• Vortex Production at Phase Transitions in Nonrelativistic and Relativistic Media (R Rivers)
• Thermal Mixing of Phases: Numerical and Analytical Studies (M Gleiser)
• La Contribution des Astronomes aux Measures de Précision (S Débarbat)