| Preface | |
| List of participants | |
| Conference photo | |
| Review of the Galactic Bulge | p. 3 |
| General surveys of the Bulge in the infrared | p. 21 |
| Long-period variables and carbon stars in the Galactic Bulge | p. 39 |
| OH/IR stars as tracers of Galactic populations | p. 57 |
| Kinematics and dynamics of OH/IR stars | p. 73 |
| Bulge K and M giants | p. 87 |
| The globular cluster and horizontal branch content of the Bulge and Halo | p. 101 |
| The global properties of planetary nebulae in the Galactic Bulge | p. 117 |
| Stellar population synthesis | p. 133 |
| Formation and evolution of stars in galactic bulges | p. 151 |
| The stellar population of the inner 200 parsecs | p. 169 |
| Dynamics of the Galactic Bulge | p. 191 |
| Kinematics of extragalactic bulges: evidence that some bulges are really disks | p. 209 |
| Photometric properties of extragalactic bulges | p. 231 |
| What is the connection between ellipticals and bulges? | p. 243 |
| Summary: achievements and open questions | p. 263 |
| 3-D gas dynamics in triaxial systems | p. 273 |
| Dynamics of the Galactic Bulge from gas motions | p. 275 |
| The Bulge of the Milky Way and cosmic rays | p. 283 |
| Rapid gas fueling in a barred potential by self-gravitational instability | p. 285 |
| MgI triplet lines in composite systems | p. 287 |
| Hubble Space Telescope observations of Baade's window | p. 289 |
| Long period variable AGB stars in a field towards the Galactic Bulge | p. 291 |
| Preliminary results of the two micron galactic survey | p. 293 |
| Metallicity of two stars in Baade's window | p. 295 |
| The Bulge/Halo interface: rotational kinematics from [Fe/H]=-3.0 to Solar | p. 297 |
| Detectability of Bulge stars | p. 299 |
| The Bulge-Halo transition region | p. 301 |
| SIO maser survey of the Bulge IRAS sources | p. 303 |
| Cross-correlation of the two micron galactic survey with IRAS | p. 309 |
| Microlensing towards the Galactic Bulge | p. 311 |
| TiO bands in composite systems | p. 313 |
| Kinematics of the Galactic Bulge: the velocity ellipsoid | p. 315 |
| Comparing M and K giants in the Bulge | p. 317 |
| PG3, a field in the Bulge of our Galaxy: description of a galactic model | p. 319 |
| Star clusters as tracers of galactic subsystems | p. 323 |
| Stellar population synthesis in the Bulge of our Galaxy | p. 325 |
| CCD BVRI photometry of stars in the Galactic Bulge | p. 327 |
| The IR stellar population around the Galactic Center | p. 329 |
| Studies of the galactic bulges using the post-theoretical mass method | p. 331 |
| A study of the abundance distributions along the minor axis of the Galactic Bulge | p. 333 |
| The UV and optical reddening law to the Galactic Bulge and CNO abundances in Bulge planetary nebulae | p. 337 |
| Do the OH/IR stars within 100 pc of the Galactic Center belong to the disk population? | p. 339 |
| Dynamics of OH/IR stars in the Inner Galactic Bulge | p. 341 |
| Synthetic photometric indices for Galactic globular clusters | p. 343 |
| HB morphology and integrated spectra of globular clusters: a theoretical approach | p. 345 |
| Proper motions: what dynamical information can we easily extract from them? | p. 347 |
| Kinematical features of the main Bulge in a multi-component galactic model | p. 349 |
| Point-axial mass distribution in the external Galactic Bulge | p. 351 |
| The contribution of the Galactic Bulge to the Galactic rotation curve | p. 353 |
| The construction of Stackel potentials for galactic dynamical modelling | p. 355 |
| Two-integral distribution functions for axisymmetric galaxies | p. 357 |
| Two-integral models with almost circular orbits | p. 359 |
| Simple models of galactic bulges | p. 361 |
| Generalized isochrone models for spherical stellar systems | p. 363 |
| Bulge and disk: a simple self-gravitating model | p. 367 |
| Orbital elements of different Galactic population objects | p. 369 |
| Orbital structure of triaxial equilibrium models of various shapes | p. 371 |
| Globally stable equilibria of collisionless self-gravitating matter | p. 373 |
| Mixing in collisionfree systems | p. 375 |
| On the formation mechanisms for ellipticals and bulges | p. 377 |
| Analytical models for rotating and flattened perturbations in bulges | p. 381 |
| Tumbling instability in oblate rotating stellar systems | p. 383 |
| Investigating a self-consistent Galactic potential with central mass concentration | p. 385 |
| Delayed formation of bulges by dynamical processes | p. 387 |
| Peanut shaped bars | p. 391 |
| The influence of a halo on the evolution of elliptical configurations | p. 393 |
| SPH simulations of the chemical and dynamical evolution of the Galactic Bulge | p. 395 |
| Primeval starburst and bulge formation | p. 397 |
| Secular evolutionary trends in ellipticals and bulges due to mergers | p. 399 |
| Analytical models for ellipticals and bulges with rotation | p. 401 |
| Bulges and ellipticals: can formation mechanisms be the same? | p. 403 |
| The effect of a bar on the kinematics of a central ring structure in NGC 4736 | p. 405 |
| Kinematic signatures of triaxial stellar systems | p. 407 |
| Colour gradients in galaxy bulges | p. 409 |
| Velocity dispersions and metallicities of box-shaped galaxies | p. 411 |
| Photometric properties of box-shaped galaxies | p. 413 |
| Hot stellar populations in the M31 bulge | p. 415 |
| Line profiles in the bulge of NGC 7217 | p. 417 |
| On the photometric characteristics of ellipticals and bulges of spirals in interacting systems | p. 419 |
| The counter-rotating twin disks in NGC 4550 | p. 421 |
| Stellar kinematica evidence for massive black holes revisited | p. 423 |
| Photometric and kinematic properties of disky elliptical galaxies | p. 425 |
| Abundance jump in the inner bulges of galaxies | p. 427 |
| Stellar population in the nuclei of early type galaxies | p. 429 |
| On the difference in formation history between bulges and ellipticals | p. 431 |
| The velocity fields of elliptical galaxies: constraints on intrinsic shapes | p. 433 |
| Triaxiality in the bulges of spirals: dynamical implications | p. 435 |
| Extracting kinematics from spectra: a new method and NGC 4406 | p. 437 |
| Nuclear molecular gas in the Virgo Cluster SO galaxy NGC 4710 | p. 439 |
| IR imaging of spiral galaxy bulges | p. 441 |
| A triaxial model for the bulge of NGC 4697 | p. 443 |
| Subject Index | p. 447 |
| Object Index | p. 453 |
| Author Index | p. 455 |
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