International Astronomical Union Symposia

Opening Address.- Recent Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Radiation.- The Anisotropy in the Distribution of Extragalactic Infrared Sources and Background.- The Izana Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations Experiment: A Progress Report.- The Anisotropy of the Microwave Background: Space Experiment Relict.- Summary of the USSR Ground Based Observations of the 3 K Anisotropy.- An Upper Limit to the Intrinsic Anisotropy of the Microwave Background Radiation on a Scale of 7 Arc Minutes.- Anisotropy of the Microwave Background and Biased Galaxy Formation.- Inflation and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe.- Some Critical Remarks on the Inflationary Universe Concept.- Evolution of Inhomogeneities in the Inflationary Universe - No Hair Theorem or Multi-Production of Universes?.- Cosmic Structures Formation in the Multicomponent Universe: New Tests.- Quantitative Predictions of CMB Anisotropies and Distortions.- The Cfa Red Shift Survey.- Results of the Pisces-Perseus HI Redshift Survey.- The Large Scale Distribution of Galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere.- The Edinburgh-Durham Southern Galaxy Catalogue.- Possible Inhomogeneities in the Universe on Scales 100-300 Mpc from Observations with the 6-Meter Telescope.- A Cut Of Large-Scale Structure Across the Coma Supercluster.- The APM Galaxy Survey.- A Fit of the Angular 3-Point Function and Biased Galaxy Formation.- Constraints on the Biasing of Density Fluctuations.- Elliptical Galaxies and Large Scale Velocity Flows.- Spiral Galaxies, Elliptical Galaxies and the Large-Scale Velocity Field within 3500 Km/s of the Local Group.- Coherent Large Scale Motions from a New Sample of Spiral Galaxies.- Large Peculiar Velocities in the Hydra Centaurus Supercluster.- A Redshift Survey of Iras Galaxies.- The High Energy X-Ray Background and Limits on Large Scale Structure.- A VLA Search for Cosmological HI.- A WSRT Search for HI at Z=3.35.- Galaxies, Clusters and Fluctuations.- Observations of Faint Field Galaxies.- Superclustering and Motion of Galaxy Clusters.- The Orientation of Galaxies in Superclusters.- The Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex.- Superclustering: Theory versus Observations.- Two Questions about the Large Scale Distribution of Galaxies.- N-Body Simulations of Galaxy Formation.- Theories of Largescale Structure.- Cosmic Strings and Galaxy Formation.- Is Cosmic String Domination of the Universe Avoidable?.- Large Scale Structure of the Universe in Unstable Dark Matter Models.- Formation of Disk Galaxies.- Observational Evidence for Spectral Evolution of Cluster Galaxies.- Explosive Origins of Large-Scale Structures.- Galaxy Formation and Evolution.- Quasar Absorption Lines: Evolution and Clustering.- Galaxies Giving Rise to MgII Absorption Systems in Quasar Spectra.- Quasar Clustering and the Evolution of Structure.- Observation of Galaxy and QSO Clustering.- The Distribution of Faint Radio Sources at 6cm.- Discussion Session: Galaxy Formation and Quasi Stellar Objects.- Dynamical Evidence for Dark Matter in Individual Disk Galaxies.- Dark Matter in Single and Double Galaxies.- Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies.- Dissipation and Formation of Galactic Halos.- Galaxy Formation and Large Scale Structures in a Two-Component Dark Matter Scenario.- Dark Matter and Cooling Flows.- Biased Galaxy Formation and Dark Matter.- Gravitational Lenses.- Is the Giant Luminous Arc in A370 a Gravitational Lensing Effect?.- Giant Luminous Arcs in Clusters of Galaxies.- Cosmological Implications of the Fifth Force.- Discussion Panel.- Summary.- Appendix 1 Poster Papers.- Distortion of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Decay of Weakly Interacting Particles.- Dipole Anisotropy in the Lick Galaxy Catalogue.- Trinity Relations in the Universe.- Microwave Background Anisotropies in a Baryon Dominated Universe.- Primordial Density Perturbations in Tepid Inflation.- Vacuum Polarization and Scalar Field Effects in the Early Universe.- Self Similar Cosmological Models with a Cosmical Constant.- On the Observational Discrimination of Friedmann-Lemaitre Models.- Solitons In Newtonian Gravity and Non Linear Pancake Evolution.- The Center for Astrophysics Redshift Survey: Luminosity Function and Two-Point Correlation Function.- The Centaurus-Pavo Supercluster.- Galaxy Clusters in the APM Survey.- Hydra Centaurus : A Redshift Survey.- A Redshift Survey in the Direction of a Void Near the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster.- Tracing Large Scale Structure with Galaxy Objective-Prism Spectra.- MRSP - the Muenster Redshift Project.- Angular Correlations of Faint (B < 24) Galaxies.- Results from the 1000 Galaxy Sample: The Correlation Function At Z=0.75 and the Evolution of the Characteristic Luminosity.- Galaxy Groups: Morphological Segregation between Spirals.- A Search for a Vestigial Object in the Centre of a Cosmic Void.- Corona Borealis Supercluster.- Space Distribution of the Richest Abell Clusters of Galaxies.- A New Catalog of Superclusters of Galaxies.- Is Coma a Young Aggregate of Old Subclusters.- Abell Clusters as Tracers of Large Scale Structure: Alignments and Substructure.- Substructure in Rich Clusters.- The 3-D Distribution of Abell Clusters.- The Large Scale Structure of the X-Ray Universe.- A Possible Connection between the Diffuse X-Ray Background and Large Scale Structures in the Universe.- Space Distribution of X-Ray Clusters of Galaxies.- X-Ray Selected Clusters of Galaxies.- Large Scale Structure among Abell Clusters and Comparisons to Models.- Acquisition of Angular Momentum in the Protogalactic Phases.- Merger Rates in Simulated and Observed Groups of Galaxies.- Alignment of Clusters with Brightest Member Galaxies.- Alignment Effects of Brightest Cluster Galaxies.- Statistics of Galaxy Orientations: Morphology and the Large Scale Structure.- Cluster Correlations for Scale Free Spectra.- The Cross-Correlation of Abell Clusters with the Lick Galaxy Counts.- Cosmological Streaming Velocities and Large-Scale Density Maxima.- Angular Momentum Growth around Local Density Maxima.- The Fractal Turbulence and the Origin of Large Scale Structure.- Cross Correlation Analysis of Galaxies with Different Luminosity.- Fractal Dimension in the Large Scale Distribution of Galaxies.- Theoretical Models for the Galaxy Angular Correlation Function.- The Advent of Cosmological Gas Dynamic Simulations.- On the Goodness of Different Mass Estimators from N-Body Simulations.- From 2-D to 3-D by Maximum Entropy Method.- Galaxy Formation with Hot Dark Matter and Cosmic Strings.- Cosmic Strings Wakes and Large Scale Structure.- Implementation of a Tree Code for Cosmology.- The Spacetime Surrounding Superconducting Cosmic Strings.- Effects of Quantum Fields Outside Cosmic Strings.- Cosmic Strings as a Candidate for Dark Matter. Astrophysical Formulae.- Rotation Profile of a String-Seeded Halo.- Large Scale Streaming in the Wake of a Loop of Cosmic String.- Are Voids Present in the Lyman-Alpha Forest?.- Does a Periodicity Exist in the Redshift Distribution of Quasars' Lyman-Alpha Absorption Lines?.- On The Interpretation of QSO Absorption Lines.- Evolution of Quasar Clustering.- The Interaction of the Quasar PKS 0812+02 with the Surrounding Cluster of Galaxies.- Quasar Clustering at Intermediate Redshifts.- The Environments of Optically-Selected QSOs.- Properties of Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters Associated with Quasars.- QSO Surface Density at Faint Light Levels.- Radio Galaxies as Large-Scale Cosmological Probes.- Spatial Correlation Functions of Bright Radio-Galaxies.- Some Remarks on Observational Problems For Disk-galaxy Evolution.- The General Galaxy Luminosity Function.- Explosions in Pancake Models of Galaxy Formation.- The Rotation of Spiral Galaxies: Infall Model vs. Observations.- Dark Matter around the Local Group?.- Observed Distortions (from Linearity) of the Hubble Flow and Bias in the Data.- On Dynamical Analysis of Hydrostatic Selfgravitating Sphere: Application to Galaxy Clusters.- Structure of Galaxies Embedded in Clouds of Dark Matter.- Globular Clusters and Dark Clusters.- The Coupling of Modes and the Formation of Population III Objects.- On the Possibility of a Higher Baryonic Contribution to Dark Matter.- Path Integral Methods for Primordial Density Perturbations.- Do Pregalactic Shocks Trigger or Prevent Galaxy Formation.- Antibiased Galaxy Formation in the Pancake Scenario.- Non-Linear Evolution of Acoustic Waves in Dust Interacting with Dark Matter in Newtonian Cosmology: Biasing, Voids and the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation.- Gravitational Lensing: Cosmological Implications.- Giant Arcs-Spherical Shells?.- Morphology of High Redshift 3Cr Galaxies (Z > 1), from High Spatial Resolution Imaging.- Gravitational Lensing and Cosmic Strings.- On the Possibilities of Detecting Dark Matter by the Gravitational Lens Effect.- It is not Easy to Replace Newtonian Gravitational Theory.- Appendix 2 The Balatonfured Alphabet of Cosmology.- Index of Authors.- Index of Subjects.