Galactic Microlensing

EROS
MicroFun
MOA Alert Page
MPS
PLANET
OGLE
MACHO

Quasar / Cosmological Lensing

ANGLES Marie-Curie TMR Network: Astrophysics Network for Galaxy LEnsing Studies
CASTLEs (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
CLASS (Jodrell Bank Observatory)
COMBO-17 (MPIA)
DLS (Brown University)
The Gravitational Lens Monitoring Project (Apache Point Observatory)

Weak Lensing

XMM Newton: Large Scale Structure Survey
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
Weak Lensing with SNAP

Lensing Groups

University of Melbourne
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Northern Optical Telescope (Nordic Institute for theoretical physics)
MPA
Universite de Liege
STScI
University of Bonn
Lensing at IAP (Paris) Universite de Paris
QUEST (Yale University)

Review Articles and Lectures

General Lens Intro (Edward Keyes)
Lectures on gravitationally lensing (Bartelmann, Narayan, Proceedings of the 1995 Jerusalem Winter School)
Distances from lensing (Paul Schechter, Talk given at the Observatoire de Strasbourg distance scale meeting)
Gravitational Lensing in Astronomy (Joachim Wambsganss, Living Reviews in Relativity 1, 1-80, 1998)
Apparent Confirmation of Time delay (Edwin L. Turner)
What have we learned from Gravitational Lenses? (from: http://spiff.rit.edu)
Weak Gravitational Lensing (Bartelmann, Schneider, Physics Reports 340 (2001) 291-472
Quasar Lensing: The observer's point of view (F. Courbin, ASP conference series, 2003)
Lensed quasars: A matter of resolution (F. Courbin, ESO-Messenger, Vol. 101, p. 17, 2000)
Probing the universe with weak lensing (Y. Mellier, Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 1999. 37: 127-189)
Weak Lensing with SNAP: I, II, III

Animations

Lens an Astrophysicist! (Peter Kernan)
Microlensing Animations (Scott Gaudi)
Lensing by an elliptical mass (Pete Newbury)
Simulation of a Gravitational Lens (Jim Lovell)

News / Press Releases / APOD

APOD

December 15, 2002 - A Network of Microlensing Caustics (J. Wambsganss)
October 7, 2001 - Abell 2218: A Galaxy Cluster Lens
June 10, 2001 - Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Images
March 15, 2000 - Weak Lensing Distorts the Universe
November 2, 1998 - PG 1115: A Ghost of Lensing Past
February 1, 1996 - Lensing through Baade's Window

HST Press releases at STScI

Gravitational Lens Helps Hubble and Keck Discover Galaxy Building Block (2001)
Natural Lenses in Space Stretch Hubble's View of the Universe (1999)
Quasar PG1115+080 and Gravitational Lens (1998)
World's Most Powerful Telescopes Team Up With A Lens In Nature To Discover Farthest Galaxy In The Universe (1997)
Hubble Discovers New Class of Gravitational Lens for Probing Structure of the Cosmos (1995)
Hubble Views Distant Galaxies Through a Cosmic Lens (1995)

ESO Press Release

Discovery of quadruply lensed quasar with Einstein ring (ESP Press Release 19/03)
The VLT Weighs the Invisible Matter in the Universe (ESO Press Release 24/00)

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Conferences/Proceedings

IAU Scientific Meeting 225: Gravitational Lensing Impact on Cosmology July 19-23, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland

Contact person: Yannick Mellier mellier (at) iap.fr

33rd Saas Fee Advanced Course, Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak and Micro (April 7-12, 2003, Les Diablerets, Switzerland)

Gravitational Lensing: A unique tool for cosmology (January, 5-11, 2003, Aussois, Savoie, France)

Gravitational LENSES 2002 ( July 15-19, 2002, Ringberg Workshop)