A Pan-Chromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure

This volume is the selection of invited reviews, presented during the 2005 Guillermo Haro Advanced School on ``A Panchromatic view of Clusters of Galaxies and Large-Scale Structure', organized by the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica in Tonantzintla, Mexico. As the title of the school indicates, a variety of cluster physics themes were discussed: the physics of the ICM gas, the internal cluster dynamics, the detection of clusters using different observational techniques, the great advances in analytical or numerical modeling of clusters, weak and strong lensing effects, the large scale structure as traced by clusters, the cosmological significance of clusters as well as the formation and evolution of clusters within the new cosmological paradigm. The study of clusters of galaxies has advanced tremendously in the recent years due to the advent of large or dedicated ground-based telescopes, the increasingly sensitive space observatories and the significant advances in numerical astrophysics and cosmology. The current generations of large spectroscopic and wide-field imaging survey and ongoing multi-wavelength studies, covering a large range of the electromagnetic spectrum from X-rays to the sub-mm and the radio, are making major breakthroughs in our understanding of galaxy aggregation and transformation processes in different environments, on the properties of the tenuous ICM gas, on the starburst activity and on revealing environmental effects on galaxy formation and evolution.