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The state of modern cosmology, M. Rees; the universe is homogeneous andisotropic on large scales, M. Davis and L. Pietronero; big bangnucleosynthesis explains the observed abundances of helium and other lightelements, C. Hogan and G. Steigman; age/expansion consistency, D. Schramm;the value of Hubble's constant, W. Freedman and G. Tammann; the age of theoldest stars exceeds 13 Gyr, M. Bolte and B. Paczynski; dynamicalmeasurements favour a value of omega close to unity, A. Dekel and D.Burstein; review of the cosmological constant problem - theory, S. Weinberg,observations, M. Fukugita; review of the dark matter problem, baryonic darkmatter and dark matter candidates - astronomical view, D. Spergel,experimental view, B. Sadoulet; inflation provides a compelling explanationfor why the universe is so large, so flat and so old, and a predictive theoryof density perturbations, A. Guth and W. Unruh; overview of FRW cosmology, M.Longair; what are the clues from present day theory about what a finalcosmology might be?, and what kind of guidance might cosmologicalobservations give as to the nature of a fundamental theory?, R. Blandford etal; review of electroweak baryogenesis, N. Turok; the galactic magneticfields could have been generated by standard astrophysical processes and thedynamo mechanism, E. Parker and R. Kulsrud; review of observations -spectrum, anisotropy, recent experiments, L. Page; what current CBRanisotropy measurements tell us, J.R. Bond and J. Silk; review of large scalegalaxy surveys, G. Efstathiou; the large scale velocity flows - two views, M.Strauss and R. Giovanelli; observations of gaxalies at high redshifts providestrong constraints on galaxy formation and evolution, and on the cosmologicalparameters, B. Rocca et al; absorption line studies show us that galaxyformation occurred at high redshifts, and that the intergalactic medium wasionized by a redshift of ..., A. Wolfe and W. Sargent; review ofgravitational lensing, E. Turner; the best theory of cosmic structureformation is ..., J.R. Goot (Open CDM), N. Kaiser (omega=1 Std CDM), J.Primack (MDM), A. Stebbins (Defects+X) and M. Turner (CDM+L); anastronomer's, an astrophysicist's and a particle physicist's view, V. Rubinet al.