EDITORIAL INFORMATION

During the week of the 11th to the 18th of March 1995, 112 Astrophysicists and Particle Physicists coming from more than 15 different countries have converged to Les Arcs, in Savoie, with a quite ambitious scope: review our present knowledge of "Clustering in the Universe". The opportunity of such a conference was becoming more and more urgent as both observational and theoretical aspects of the topic had undergone a substantial burst.

(Extracted from the foreword).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Avant-Propos.

-Foreword.

-Session 1: Large Scale Structure From Redshift Surveys.

-Studying Galaxy and Structure Formation with Complete Redshift Surveys.
-The Power Spectrum of Galaxy Density Fluctuations: Current Results and Improved Techniques.
-Biasing in the Southern Sky Redshift Survey.
-Constraining omega and Bias from Strombo-APM Survey.
-The Power Spectrum of Galaxy Clustering in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey.
-First Results from the ESO Slice Project (ESP).
-Estimating Power Spectra from 3D Galaxy Surveys.
-Topology of the Galaxy Distribution.
-Radio-Sources and Large-Scale Structure.
-Large-Scale Structures in Three Dimensions.
-Large-Scale Structures Uncovered Behind the Southern Milky Way.
-Search for Emission Line Galaxies Towards Nearby Voids.
-Do Dwarf and LSB Galaxies Trace the Same Density Field as Bright Galaxies?

-Session 2: Peculiar Motions and the Density Field.

-Measuring omega Independent of Galaxy Biasing.
-Omega and Biasing from Optical Galaxies versus POTENT Mass.
-Mapping the Peculiar Velocity Field of Galaxies.
-The Information Content of Redshift and Velocity Surveys.
-Dynamical Fields and omega Simultaneously from Redshift Surveys and Peculiar Velocity Surveys.
-Wiener Reconstruction, SVD and 'Optimal' Functional Bases: Application for Redshift Galaxy Catalogs.

-Session 3: Statistics and Dynamics.

-Redshift Distorsions and omega in IRAS Surveys.
-What Does the Galaxy Pair-wise Velocity Probe?
-Aspects of Scaling in Gravitational Clustering.
-Clustering Statistics and Dynamics.
-Properties of the Density PDF-s in the Quasi-linear Regime.

-Session 4: Models of Formation and Numerical Simulations.

-Improved Ways to Compare Simulations to Data.
-On Cluster Cores and Power Spectra.
-Large Scale Structure in N-Body Simulations.
-Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Formation: Effect of Supernovae Feedbacks.
-Simulating Large-Scale Structure Formation for BSI Power Spectra.
-Testing DM Models Against the Cluster Distribution.
-Observational Constraints on Blue Primordial Spectra.
-The Structure and Primordial Black Holes Formation in the Inflationary Models with Peculiarities in Inflation Potential.

-Session 5: Galaxy Clusters.

-Optical/Near-IR Surveys of Distant Clusters of Galaxies.
-Is the Density Distribution of Clusters non-gaussian?
-The APM Cluster Survey: Cluster Detection and Large-Scale Structure.
-The Power Spectrum of APM Clusters.
-Large Scale Peculiar Velocities: Effects from Superclusters.
-A Redshift Survey of a Prominent Southern Supercluster Candidate.
-A 140 Mpc Oscillation of the Abell Cluster Correlation Function.
-A Comparison Between Bright Galaxy and Rich Cluster Correlations.
-Estimating ß from the Local Group and Cluster Peculiar Velocities.
-Reconstructing Cluster Peculiar Velocities within 20000 km/s.
-The ESO Nearby Abell Clusters Survey (ENACS): Velocity Dispersion Distribution.
-Surveys of Galaxy Clusters Detected by ROSAT.
-The Set of non-monotonous Correlation Functions for Very Rich Abell Clusters: History, Modern Results and Projects.
-Cluster Evolution and Gravitational Instability Theories.

-Session 6: Common Session with Particle Physics.

-A Review of Gravitational Microlensing Experiments.
-Cold + Hot Dark Matter Cosmology.
-Solar Neutrino Problem, 1995.
-The Russian-American Gallium Solar Neutrino Experiment.
-Recent Results from GALLEX.
-Discovery Physics at the Large Hadron Collider.
-Solar Neutrinos and Lepton Mixing.

-Session 7: The Cosmic Microwave Background.

-Recent Results on the Cosmic Microwave Background.
-Anisotropies of the Microwave Background radiation and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe.

-Session 8: The Deep Universe.

-Evolution of Galaxies and Clustering from the Canada-France Redshift Survey.
-The Angular Correlation Function of Faint Field Galaxies.
-Morphological Number-counts from Ultradeep HST Images.
-Evolution of the Galaxy Pair Rate.
-Clustering Properties of the Lyalpha Clouds.
-Lyman Alpha Forest Clustering Using Cell Counts Statistics.
-Quasars and Large Scale Structure of the Universe.
-The Clustering of Quasars.
-Gravitational Lensing of Quasar 0957+561 and the Determination of H0.
-The Environment of z < 0.3 QSOs.
-Large Groups of Quasars.

-Session 9: Dark Matter.

-The Nature of Dark Matter: The Case of Nonbaryonic Dark Matter.
-Can Dark Matter Be Fully Baryonic?
-Searches for Non Baryonic Dark Matter: The Case for WIMPs.
-Searching for WIMPs: The CfPA Cryogenic Dark Matter Experiment.
-Axions: Dark Matter and the Strong CP Problem.
-The Edelweiss Experiment: A Status Report.
-Giant Luminous Arcs.

-Session 10: New Windows.

-Gravitational Waves and Cosmology.
-Scale Relativity and Structuration of the Universe.

-Session 11: New and Future Projects.

-Two New radio Projects: FORT and SKAI.
-The COBRAS/SAMBA CMB Project.
-Survey Spectrographs for Cosmology at the ESO-VLT.

-Poster Papers.

-Structures of Galaxy Clusters with Central Dominant Galaxies.
-The Significance of Orientations of Galaxy Clusters.
-Analysis of the 1.936 Jy IRAS Survey Through the Scaling Formalism.
-Tidal Evolution of Disc Galaxies in Rich Clusters.
-The Structure of Compact Groups of Galaxies.
-Dark Matter in Clusters of Galaxies and the Neutrino Rest Mass.

-Résumés des Exposés en Français.

-List of Participans.

OUR REVIEW

The constant and fast accumulation of new scientific results in the multiple research that shapes the study of the structure of the universe has caused our global knowledge on this field of astrophysics to make a great leap. The famous "encounters of Moriond" are an ideal place to update, periodically, the entire community of physicians and astrophysicians in this essential sector. It would be useless to mention one by one the multiple contributions done by means of articles for this book, which compiles in a single volume the 11 sessions carried out during this conference. In this sense, it will suffice with having a look at the index to see the varied nature of its contents and the current importance of some of these works.

This is certainly a book aimed at astrophysicists and astronomers interested in some of the fields developed here, or to very advanced university students who wish to specialize soon. The faultless presentation of this volume, like all those by Editions Frontières, provides us with a very careful compilation that no doubt should belong into all the technical libraries at the centers for astrophysical research.