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The second set of The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, in three volumes, continues this major, long-lasting, seminal reference at the graduate student level laid out by the most prominent researchers in the general field of cosmology. Together, these volumes will be a comprehensive review of the most important current topics in cosmology, discussing the important concepts and current status in each field, covering both theory and observation.

These three volumes are edited by Dr Giovanni Fazio from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, with each volume authored or edited by specialists in the area: Modified Gravity by Claudia de Rham and Andrew Tolley (Imperial College), Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics edited by Floyd Stecker (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), Black Holes edited by Zoltan Haiman (Columbia University). These volumes follow the earlier publication in 2020 of The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, which comprises the following four volumes: Galaxy Formation and Evolution by Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv University), Numerical Simulations in Cosmology edited by Kentaro Nagamine (Osaka University / University of Nevada), Dark Energy by Shinji Tsujikawa (Tokyo University of Science), and Dark Matter by Jihn E Kim (Seoul National University). The Encyclopedia aims to provide an overview of the most important topics in cosmology and serve as an up-to-date reference in astrophysics.

Contents:
  • Volume 1: Modified Gravity (Claudia de Rham, Andrew J Tolley [Imperial College London]):
    • Foundations of Gravity:
      • The Conceptual Development of General Relativity
      • Alternative formulations of General Relativity
      • Routes Beyond General Relativity
      • Effective Field Theories and Gravity
    • Scalar and Vector Degrees of Freedom:
      • Minimal Scalar–Tensor Theories
      • Non-Minimal Scalar–Tensor Theories
      • Tensor–Vector(–Scalar) Theories
    • Gravity from Extra Dimensions:
      • Spectral Arguments
      • Kaluza–Klein and Randall–Sundrum
      • Infrared Modifications of Gravity
    • Massive Graviton and Generalizations:
      • Ghost-Free Massive Gravity
      • Massive Gravity Extensions
    • Lorentz Violation and Non-Locality:
      • Lorentz-Breaking Gravity
      • Non-Local Theories
  • Volume 2: Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Editor, Floyd W Stecker [NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center & University of California, Los Angeles]):
    • Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics Overview (Floyd W Stecker)
    • Neutrino Properties and Interactions (Pedro A N Machado)
    • Cosmological Neutrinos (Floyd W Stecker)
    • Neutrino Astronomy with IMB, Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande (John M LoSecco)
    • IceCube Neutrinos (Francis Halzen and Ali Kheirandish)
    • Radio Detection of High Energy Neutrinos in Ice (Steven W Barwick and Christian Glaser)
    • Neutrino Observations from Space (John F Krizmanic)
    • Neutrinos in Stellar Astrophysics (George M Fuller, W C Haxton and E B Grohs)
    • Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts (Shigeo S Kimura)
    • High-Energy Neutrinos from Active Galactic Nuclei (Kohta Murase and Floyd W Stecker)
    • Cosmogenic Neutrinos (Todor Stanev)
    • Neutrino LIV (Floyd W Stecker)
  • Volume 3: Black Holes (Editor, Zoltan Haiman [Columbia University]):
    • Black Holes in Classical General Relativity and Beyond (Dimitrios Psaltis)
    • Black Holes in Quantum Gravity (Daniel Harlow)
    • Black Holes as the End State of Stellar Evolution: Theory and Simulations (Alexander Heger, Bernhard Müller, and Ilya Mandel)
    • Observations of Stellar-Mass Black Holes in the Galaxy (Morgan MacLeod and Jonathan Grindlay)
    • Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei: Theory (Tiziana Di Matteo, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar and Francesco Shankar)
    • Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei: Observations (Marianne Vestergaard and Kayhan Gültekin)
    • The Formation of the First Black Holes (John H Wise)
Readership: University astronomy departments (faculty, graduate and undergraduate students), researchers in the field of astrophysics, in particular, cosmology.

Dr Giovanni Fazio is widely recognized as one of the pioneers in space-borne astronomy, as signaled by his numerous international awards. In 2008, Dr Fazio received the Royal Society of London-COSPAR Massey award for his outstanding contributions to space science, and more recently, in 2015, received the highest award of the American Astronomical Society — the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship. Earlier, in 2005, Dr Fazio received the UNICO National Marconi Science Award and Medal and the NASA Public Service Medal. He was selected as Principal Investigator for the Infrared Array Camera (known as "IRAC") flown onboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, one of NASA's Great Observatories. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and past chairman of its Astrophysics Division, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a member of the American Astronomical Society and past chairman of its High Energy Astrophysics Division, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, amongst others. Dr Fazio is presently Senior Physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.