Gravitational Lensing And Microlensing

A comprehensive and self-contained exposition of gravitational lensing phenomena. It presents the status of gravitational lensing and microlensing, covering the cosmological applications of the observed lensing by galaxies, clusters and the large scale structures, as well as the microlensing searches in the local group and its applications to unveil the nature of the galactic dark matter, the search for planetary objects and the distribution of faint stars in our galaxy. The text is pitched at the level of the graduate student interested in the issues of astrophysics and cosmology, and should also be useful to specialist researchers as well.