Download or read book Eighteenth Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology written by Angela V. Olinto and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1963, the Texas Symposia have been a biennial, peripatetic forum for forefront de developments on a wide range of topics in relativistic astrophysics, from pulsars to string theory, from the birth of the universe to the death of stars. The 26 plenary lectures, 230 parallel session talks and 265 poster presentations attest to the scientific vitality of this interdisciplinary field.