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Volume 18 continues the Reviews in Modern Astronomy with twelve invited reviews and highlight contributions which were presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Astronomical Society on the topic "From Cosmological Structures to the Milky Way", held in Prague, Czech Republic, September 20 to 25, 2004.The contributions to the meeting published in this volume discuss, among other subjects, X-ray astronomy, cosmology, star formation and the Galactic Centre.
List of contents
Karl Schwarzschild lecture:The Dawn of X-Ray AstronomyRiccardo Giacconi, Washington, USALudwig Biermann Award LectureThe Second Stars,Falk Herwig, Los Alamos, USAGalactic CentreAndreas Eckart, Cologne , GermanyCosmological Structures behind the Milky WayRenée Kraan-Korteweg, Guanajuato , Mexico and Cape Town, South AfricaTides, Gas Striping and Star Formation in the Evolution of GalaxiesJan Palous, Praha , Czech RepublicNew Cosmology with Clusters of GalaxiesPeter Schuecker, Garching , GermanyThe Origin of Brown DwarfsViki Joergens, Leiden, The NetherlandsStructures in the Interstellar MediumSona Ehlerová, Praha, Czech RepublicContinuous Star Formation in Blue Compact Dwarf GalaxiesSimone Recchi, Garching, GermanyThe Proper Motion and Geometric Distance of M33Andreas Brunthaler, Dwingeloo, The NetherlandsStar Formation in Merging Galaxy ClustersChiara Ferrari, Innsbruck, AustriaThe Evolution of Field Spiral Galaxies over the Past 8 GyrsAsmus Böhm and Bodo L. Ziegler, Göttingen, Germany
About the author
Dr. Siegfried Röser
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg und
Schriftführer der Astronomischen Gesellschaft
Summary
Volume 18 continues the Reviews in Modern Astronomy with twelve invited reviews and highlight contributions which were presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Astronomical Society on the topic "From Cosmological Structures to the Milky Way", held in Prague, Czech Republic, September 20 to 25, 2004.
The contributions to the meeting published in this volume discuss, among other subjects, X-ray astronomy, cosmology, star formation and the Galactic Centre.
