This NATO Advanced Study Institute course provided 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 struc ture, dark matter problem, and the interplay between them. Emphasis was placed on the mutual impact of fundamental physics and cosmology, both at the theo retical and experimental or observational levels, within a deep and well defined programme, and a global unifying view, which, in addition, provides of careful inter-disciplinarity. In addition, each course...

The problem of the physical vacuum is presented in the opening lecture by T.D. Lee and the effective string-theoretical approach to cosmological vacua by G. Veneziano. Effective theoretical approaches to light and heavy quark physics are presented by H. Leutwyler and M. Neubert. V.N. Gribov discusses the quark confinement and N. Seiberg the problem of finding the effective actions in supersymmetric theories. A detailed analysis confronting electroweak theory with the high precision experimental data is presented by D. Schildknecht. The great specialist in membrane theory, M. Duff, presents...

This book reviews the present status of our understanding of subnuclear phenomena. The opening lecture, by G't Hooft, reaches the limits of our imagination in particle physics. A group of lectures by F Wilczek, D Nanopoulos and G Altarelli discuss the physics beyond the Standard Model. A Masiero reviews the problem of FCNCs which are not there in spite of Susy. Superstring and M-theory are discussed by M B Green, while S Glashow presents some puzzles in particle physics. The possible sources for new physics coming from new experimental results are presented by H Satz, G Wolf, G Kane and Y...