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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume contains written versions of the Lectures given at the CXXXII Course of the Enrico Fermi School of Physics, on the subject of Dark Matter in the Universe, held in Varenna at Villa Monastero 25 July-4 August 1995.

(Extracted from the introductory note)

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Indice.

-Introductory Note.

-Gruppo Fotografico dei Partecipanti al Corso.

-Status of Cosmological Parameters.

-Observational Data.

-Galaxy Redshift Surveys.
-Peculiar Motions and the Tully-Fisher Relation.
-Galaxy Redshift Surveys: Caveat Emptor.
-CMBR Observations: Spectrum.
-CMBR Observations: Anisotropy.
-Galaxy Number Counts.
-Cosmological Adventures in the Lyman Forest.

-Advanced Statistical Estimators.

-Cosmic Velocity Fields.
-Advanced Statistical Methods for Large-Scale Structure Studies.
-Models of Nonlinear Clustering.
-Measures of Galaxy Clustering.
-Improved Ways to Compare Simulations to Data.
-Minkovski Functionals in Cosmology.

-From BB to Matter-Radiation Decoupling.

-Inflation.
-Mixed Dark Matter and Supersymmetry.
-The Nature of the Dark Matter.
-Doppler Peaks and All That: CMB Anisotropies and What They Can Tell Us.

-Dark Matter Models and LSS.

-Numerical Simulations in Cosmology I.
-Numerical Simulations in Cosmology II.
-Numerical Simulations in Cosmology III.
-Broken Scale-Invariant Spectra of Cosmological Perturbations.
-Simulating Galaxy Formation.
-On the Nature of the Volatile Component of Dark Matter from Large-Scale Structure Measurements.
-Testing Dark-Matter Models By the Cluster Velocity Field.

-Nonlinear Dynamics of Density Fluctuations.

-Lagrangian Perturbation Approach to the Formation of Large-Scale Structure.
-Introductory Overview of Eulerian and Lagrangian Perturbation Theories.
-Relativistic Cosmology: From Superhorizon to Small Scales.
-Models of Nonlinear Clustering.
-The Adhesion Approximation in the Description of the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe.
-A "Simple" Dynamical Model for the Origin of the Large-Scale Structure in the Universe.
-Scaling Behaviour in Gravitational Clustering.
-Frontiers of Cosmology.

-Elenco dei Partecipanti.

OUR REVIEW

The Italian Physics Society enjoys a deserved prestige all over the world, thanks both to its educational activities and to their research and publications. Their summer courses in the framework of the International Physics School Enrico Fermi are especially interesting. This book tries to divulge the projects presented and developed during the 132nd course, held between July, 25 and August 4, 1995, in Varenna (Villa Monastero), Italy.

Actually, it consists in the written versions of the lectures given during these days, especially devoted in this occasion to the topic of the Obscure Matter in the Universe. Not only does this work contain articles centered in purely astrophysical aspects, but also the observational data, statistic data, etc. This book intends to cover nearly all theoretical and observational novelties on the matter, providing in only one volume what turns out to be most interesting of the current status of the studies about obscure matter.