Observational Tests of Cosmological Inflation

I. Inflation Theory.- Fundamental Arguments for Inflation.- Predictions of Inflation.- Classicality of Density Perturbations in the Early Universe.- The Influence of Non-Linear Density Fluctuations on the Microwave Sky.- Quantum Cosmology and the Cosmological Constant.- Lessons from Inflation and Cold Dark Matter.- The Topology of Galaxy Clustering.- Can Non-Gaussian Fluctuations for Structure Formation Arise from Inflation.- Non-Baryonic Dark Matter.- Are Galactic Halos Made of Brown Dwarfs or Black Holes.- II. Cosmological Timescale Test.- Ages of Globular Clusters.- Globular Cluster Ages and Cosmology.- The Local Distance Scale: How Reliable Is It.- Distances to Virgo and Beyond.- The Luminosity-Line-Width Relations and the Value of Ho.- Observational Status of HO.- Calibrating Cepheid Sequences in Nearby Galaxies.- New D-? Results for Coma Ellipticals.- Novae and the Distance Scale.- A High Resolution, Ground Based Observation of a Virgo Galaxy.- Globular Clusters as Extragalactic Distance Indicators.- III. High Redshift Tests of ?o.- High-Redshift Tests of ?.- Cosmology with Galaxies at High Redshifts.- Prospects for Measuring the Deceleration Parameter.- Aligned Radio Galaxies.- K Band Galaxy Counts and the Cosmological Geometry.- Selection Effects in Redshift Surveys.- An Inflationary Alternative to the Big-Bang.- IV. Galaxy Clustering, ?o and the Primordial Spectrum.- Dynamical Estimates of ?o from Galaxy Clustering.- ROSAT Observations of Clusters of Galaxies.- A Deep ROSAT Observation at High Galactic Latitude.- Large Scale Structure and Inflation.- The Structure of the Universe on Large Scales.- Testing the Zeldovich Spectrum.- ? on the Scale of 3Mm/s.- Tests of Inflation Using the QDOT Redshift Survey.- Testing Inflation with Peculiar Velocities.- TheInvisible Cosmological Constant.- Support for Inflation from the Great Attractor.- The Angular Large Scale Structure.- Is There Any Observational Evidence for Non- Gaussian Primordial Density Fluctuations.- V. Microwave Background Anisotropy.- COBE DMR Observations of CMB Anisotropy.- Observations of Microwave Background Anisotropy at Tenerife and Cambridge.- Foreground Effects and the Search for Fluctuations in the CMB Radiation.- Microwave Background Anisotropics and Large Scale Structure in the Universe.- Discovery of the Small Scale Sky Anisotropy at 2.7cm: Radio Sources or Relic Emission.- Balloon-Borne Observations of CMB Anisotropics at Intermediate Angular Scales, at Sub-MM and MM Wavelengths.- VI. Poster Papers.- The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey.- Time Evolution of Lensed Image Separations.- Deep Galactic Surveys as Probes of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe.- Intergalactic Absorption in the Spectra of High-Redshift QSOs.- A Complete Quasar Sample at Intermediate Redshift.- Radio-Luminosity Dependence of the IR-Radio Alignment Effect in High-z Radio Galaxies.- Density and Peculiar Velocity Fields in the Region of Dressler’s Supergalactic Plane Survey.- Scale Invariance Induced by Non-linear Growth of Density Fluctuations.- The Power Spectrum of Galaxy Clustering.- Higher Moments of the IRAS Galaxy Distribution.- Collapse of a Protogalactic Cloud.- Index of Authors.