Astrophysics and Particle Astrophysics

The effort to connect microphysics and macrophysics in order to better understand the origin and evolution of the Universe on its largest scales, and to probe the nature of the forces that govern its behavior on fundamental scales.
Map of models showing the unfolding of the universe as a function of the energy density of matter and the cosmological constant. From "Cosmological Antigravity", by Lawrence Krauss, Scientific American, January 1999.
Cosmic Microwave Background
Dark Matter
High Energy Astrophysics
Astronomical Instrumentation
Cosmology
Akerib Brown Covault Ruhl Shutt Starkman C.Taylor Vachaspati