Astronomy, space and time

The principal purpose of IAU Colloquium No.

The Symposium on Infrared and Submillimeter Astronomy was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.

Research and publications in the field of Astronomy have undergone dramatic changes in the last half-century.

Many satellites have recently been launched or are in preparation, which operate in the microwave to IR ranges, the main objective being to observe the earth's atmosphere or interstellar clouds.

Terahertz technology has moved on from being a useful but expensive circuit technique, applied largely in astronomy and space science, to become a subject in its own right, with important applications - terahertz imaging in particular.

Astrobiology is a very broad interdisciplinary field covering the origin, evolution, distribution, and destiny of life in the universe, as well as the design and implementation of missions for solar system exploration.

A comprehensive survey of recent theoretical and experimental progress in the area of electron-photon interaction and dense media.

Astrometry from space was performed for the first time and with great success by the ESA Hipparcos satellite (1989-93).

In this XVII Course of the International School of Cosmology and Gravitation devoted to "e;ADVANCES IN THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN QUANTUM AND GRAVITY PHYSICS"e; we have considered different aspects of the influence of gravity on quantum systems.

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One of the most attractive features of the young discipline of Space Science is that many of the original pioneers and key players involved are still available to describe their field.

Recombination lines at radio wavelengths have been - and still are - a pow- erful tool for modern astronomy.

The motivation for these volumes is to provide a vision for the future of small telescopes.

On August 2000 in the Lomonosov Moscow State University the first scientific conference dedicated to chaos in the real astronomical systems was held.

NASA's Genesis mission, launched on August 8, 2001 is the fifth mission in the Discovery series.

This book is a direct sequel to: B.

Editing the proceedings of a scientific meeting is not an easy task.

This volume contains the proceedings of the meeting entitled, "e;The IGM/Galaxy Connection: The Distribution of Baryons at z = 0.

A broad range of topics of current interest are discussed, from nuclear structure at the edge of stability to nuclear astrophysics and cosmic ray physics at the highest energies.

The Third Microquasar Workshop (or the 'Fifth' Workshop on Galactic Relativ- istic Jet Sources), was held in Granada, Andalucia (Spain) on 11-13 September 2000.

This book includes the proceedings of the Workshop held in Madrid, April 1999 to celebrate 2 years of successful operation of the first Spanish small scientific satellite in orbit.

The NATO Advanced Study Institute 2000 was held in Cascais, a small town located in a renowned beach resort area, near Lisbon.

Seated in a sun-lit corner of his 17th century Dutch house, his hand touching a celestial globe, Johannes Vermeer's "e;Astronomer"e; seems to pon- der about the mysteries of the universe.

Non-accelerator particle physicists, especially those studying neutrino oscillation experiments, will read with profit the in-depth discussions of new results and their interpretations.

Optics of Cosmic Dust describes what we currently know about cosmic dust, how we know it, and the research efforts undertaken to provide that knowledge.

We have arrived at the third volume of this useful series on Organiza- tions and Strategies in Astronomy (OSA).

Photobiology - the science of light and life - begins with basic principles and the physics of light and continues with general photobiological research methods, such as generation of light, measurement of light, and action spectroscopy.

A wide range of topics are covered, ranging from supernovae to active galactic nuclei, cosmic gamma rays to neutrinos and dark matter.

This book contains a series of lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) "e;Structure Formation in the Universe"e;, held at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge in August, 1999.

An expert and illuminating review of the leading models of nuclear structure: effective field theories based on quantum chromodynamics; ab initio models based on Monte Carlo methods employing effective nucleon-nucleon interactions; diagonalization and the Monto Carlo shell model; non-relativistic and relativistic mean-field theory and its extensions; and symmetry-dictated approaches.

This ARW is the third NATO-sponsored workshop on Explosives Detection and Humanitarian Demining.

Stellar astrophysics still provides the basic framework for deciphering the imprints left over by the evolving universe on all scales.

The exploration of our Solar System is rapidly growing in importance as a scientific discipline.

This NATO Advanced Study Institute provided an up dated understanding, from a fundamental and deep point of view, of the progress and current problems in the early universe, cosmic microwave background radiation, large scale structure, dark matter problem, and the interplay between them.

Our Sun is the nearest star and thus an ideal laboratory to study dynamic processes which are related to solar terrestrial physics.

The Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instru- ment on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory left as a legacy its Third Catalog of High Energy Gamma-Ray Sources, whose detections include a large number of blazars, some pulsars, the Large Magellanic Cloud and a solar flare.

The genesis of IAU Colloquium 182, 'Sources and scintillations: refraction and scattering in radio astronomy,' can be traced to the desire, on the one hand, of Beijing Astronomical Observatory radio astronomers to organize a conference which would highlight the need for high sensitivity - as a way ofpromoting their own project to build the world's largest telescope (FAST) - and to a suggestion from Ron Ekers on the other.

A fundamental, profound review of the key issues relating to the early universe and the physical processes that occurred in it.

Space storms, the manifestation of bad weather in space, have a number of physical effects in the near-Earth environment: acceleration of charged particles in space, intensification of electric currents in space and on the ground, impressive aurora displays, and global magnetic disturbances on the Earth's surface.

This book is based partly on a.

Sediments and sedimentary processes on the Moon and Earth are very different.

The fundamental role that Astrochemistry plays into regulating the processes that in interstellar clouds lead to the formation of stars, and how these processes concur into affecting the shape and the dynamics of galaxies and hence into showing the Universe in the way it appears to us is well established.