Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Welcome -- Francisco Tomas -- Participants -- Conference Photograph -- Photograph of lecturers and organizers -- Introductory Review to the Historical Development of Modern Cosmology -- Vicent J. Martinez -- Gravity and Light in the Newtonian Universe of Stars -- Michael Hoskin -- Einstein, Eddington and the 1919 Eclipse -- Peter Coles -- Discovery of CMB, Sakharov Oscillations and Polarization of the CMB Anisotropy -- Igor D. Novikov -- The Technology of Cosmology -- Malcolm S. Longair -- A Short History of the Missing Mass and Dark Energy Paradigms -- Sidney van den Bergh -- Dark Matter and Large Scale Structure -- Jaan Einasto -- How Big is the Universe? -- Joseph Silk -- The Classical Singularity Problem - History and Current Research -- Michael Heller -- Edwin Hubble: Reluctant Cosmologist -- Gale E. Christianson -- Nuclear Archaeology and the Early Phase of Physical Cosmology -- Helge Kragh -- Considerations that Prompted the Development of the Steady State Theory of Cosmology in 1948 -- Thomas Gold -- The Evolution of Alternative Cosmologies -- Jayant V. Narlikar -- The Galaxy and Mass N-Point Correlation Functions: a Blast from the Past -- P. J. E. Peebles -- Modern and Post-Modern Cosmology -- Silvio A. Bonometto -- Lemaitre's Contributions to the Emergence of Physical Cosmology -- Alain Blanchard -- Discovering and Understanding Cosmic Structure: How We Have Come to Understand the Origin and Evolution of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies -- Bernard Jones -- Status of Neutrino Oscillations -- Jose W. F. Valle -- Cosmology at the Start of a New Century -- Edward W. Kolb -- Aspects of the Popularization of Cosmological Ideas at the Beginning of the XXth Century -- Antonio E. Ten Ros -- Sharing the Universe - a Modern Perspective -- Isabel Hawkins -- Correlations in a Random Universe -- Vincent Icke -- The Universe in a Computer: The Importance of Numerical Simulations in Cosmology -- Gustavo Yepes -- The Quest for the Edge of the Universe -- Virginia Trimble.