TeV Gamma-Ray Astrophysics

The Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique in Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy.- Differences between Gamma-Ray and Hadronic Showers.- Present Status of Very High Energy Gamma Ray Observations.- Gamma-Ray Bursts and Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy.- Overview of TeV Gamma-Ray Observations.- The Atmospheric ?erenkov Technique in the Search for PBH.- Gamma-Hadron Separation at High Energies in View of Recent Cross Section Measurements.- Future Instrumental Capabilities in the Energy Range of Nuclear Transitions.- AGATE: A High Energy Gamma-Ray Telescope Using Drift Chambers.- GLAST.- Gamma-Ray Astronomy: Extension beyond the GeV Domain by Ground-Based Observations.- The Art and Power of ?erenkov Imaging.- Stereoscopic Measurements of the ?erenkov Radiation Produced by TeV Gamma-Rays.- Wide Angle Air ?erenkov Detectors.- Low Threshold Particle Arrays.- Water Cherenkov Detectors: MILAGRO.- High Energy Neutrino Telescopes.- Pulsars as Gamma Rays Sources: Nebular Shocks and Magnetosphere Gaps.- Inverse-Compton Gamma Rays From Plerions.- Shell Type Supernova Remnants.- The Nonthermal Energy Content and Gamma Ray Emission of Starburst Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies.- Gamma-Rays from Active Galactic Nuclei: Emission Processes and Particle Acceleration.- The Hadronic Model of Active Galactic Nuclei.- TeV Gamma-Rays from Proton Blazars.- High Energy Neutrinos from Quasars.- Possible Episodic Gamma-Ray Sources: Moving Fragile Target Crosses Relativistic Particle Beam.- Topological Defects and Highest Energy Cosmic and Gamma Rays.- Intergalactic Magnetic Fields, and Some Connections with Cosmic Rays.- Absorption of High Energy Gamma-Rays by Low Energy Intergalactic Photons.- Probing the Era of Galaxy Formation via TeV Gamma Ray Absorption by the Near Infrared ExtragalacticBackground.- Recent Results from COMPTEL.- The Cosmic Microwave Background.