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IPM SCHOOL ON COSMOLOGY 1999   
LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE FORMATION   
JANUARY 23 – FEBRUARY 4   
KISH UNIVERSITY, KISH ISLAND, IRAN   
Forough Nasseri <sup>a,b,</sup><sup>1</sup><sup>1</sup>1e-mail: naseri@netware2.ipm.ac.ir, Ali Nayeri <sup>c,</sup><sup>2</sup><sup>2</sup>2e-mail: ali@iucaa.ernet.in   
<sup>a</sup>Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, P.O.Box 11365–9161, Tehran, Iran   
<sup>b</sup>Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, P.O.Box 19395–5531, Tehran, Iran   
<sup>c</sup>Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune – 411 007, India   

The first IPM School on Cosmology 1999 on “Large Scale Structure Formation”, sponsored by Kish Free Zone Organization, Kish University, ICTP (Italy), UNESCO, Ministry of Culture and Higher Education, Meteorological Organization of Iran, Astronomical Society of Iran, was held at Kish University, from 23 January to 4 February 1999. The school brought together about 20 participants from 12 different countries besides 10 participants from Iran.   
The theme of the School pertained to the recent advances made in cosmology, like Big Bang cosmology, dark matter, origins of fluctuations, super–symmetric Inflation, cosmological defects, string cosmology, large scale structure formation, cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR), observational cosmology and high z–universe, and time variation of $`G`$ and $`\mathrm{\Lambda }`$. These topics were explained by leading lecturers:   
Alain Blanchard, Strasbourg, France   
Robert Brandenberger, Brown university, USA   
Joao Magueijo, IC, London, UK   
Thanu Padmanabhan, IUCAA, India   
Subir Sarkar, Oxford, UK   
Matias Zaldarriaga, IAS, Princeton, USA.   
Morning lectures were followed by exhaustive evening tutorials and comments besides some seminars presented by: N. Afshordi, S. Arbabi, S. Engineer, S. Khakshornia, J. Liske, M. Moniez, F. Nasseri, A. Nayeri, S. Pireaux, S. Rahvar.   
In addition, there were public lectures by Prof. T. Padmanabhan on “Voyage to the Universe” and by Prof. R. H. Brandenberger on “Structure Formation of the Universe”. A public observation programme was done by S. Arbabi, S. Ghassemi and M. Moniez at Hour cottage. In Sadaf girl’s high-school a public lecture about astronomy was delivered by A. Nayeri. The successful conduct of the school was mainly due to the active cooperation of the leading lecturers which is gratefully acknowledged. The next IPM School on Cosmology will be held in 2002 on “High z-Universe and CMBR”.