| Preface | |
| Organizing Committees | |
| List of Participants | |
| The Evolution of Star-Forming Galaxies: The SFR Density of the Universe | p. 1 |
| Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts: The most energetic phenomenon in the Universe | p. 15 |
| Modelling the Growth of Dark-Matter Halos | p. 27 |
| Star Formation and Cosmological Simulations | p. 31 |
| Galaxy Disk Formation in Hierarchical Hydrodynamical Simulations | p. 35 |
| Analytical Modelling of Galaxy Formation | p. 39 |
| The Stabilizing Role of Stellar Bulges in Galaxy Disk Formation | p. 43 |
| Analysis of the Difference Light Curve of the Gravitational Mirage QSO 0957+561 | p. 47 |
| The CASTLES Project | p. 51 |
| Identification and Study of Distant Galaxies Through Cluster Lenses | p. 55 |
| VLBA Monitoring of the QSO 3C 345 | p. 59 |
| The Shape of the Blue/UV Continuum of B3-VLA Radio Quasars | p. 63 |
| PKS 2250-41 and the Role of Jet Cloud Interactions in Powerful Radio Galaxies | p. 67 |
| Chemical Evolution in the Early Universe: Can Damp Ly[alpha] Systems Be Spiral Galaxies? | p. 71 |
| QSO Lyman-Alpha Absorbers and Galaxy Halos | p. 75 |
| On the Nature of Damped Ly[alpha] Systems: Clues from Determinations of Elemental Abundance Ratios | p. 79 |
| The Role of Cooling Flows in the Star Formation History of Central Cluster Galaxies | p. 83 |
| Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in Clusters of Galaxies | p. 87 |
| The Sloan Digital Sky Survey | p. 91 |
| Optimizing Results from Automatic Objective-Prism Surveys | p. 95 |
| OPERA: Objective-Prism Reduction Package | p. 99 |
| Seyfert Galaxies: A Perspective with the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) | p. 103 |
| CCD Surface Photometry of Nearby Active Galaxies | p. 107 |
| Kinematics and Stellar Populations of Seyfert Galaxies | p. 111 |
| X-ray Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei in the Cosmological Context | p. 115 |
| A Method for Obtaining the Nuclear Component in Active Galaxies | p. 119 |
| Spectroscopy of the Extended Emission Line Region in NGC 4388 | p. 123 |
| Blue Compact Galaxies at Redshifts z = 0.2-1.3 | p. 127 |
| The Starburst Properties of the Interacting System Arp 299 (IC 694 + NGC 3690) | p. 131 |
| Spectrophotometric Analysis of HII Regions in NGC 4258 | p. 135 |
| Star Formation in Circumnuclear Rings | p. 139 |
| Functional and Physical Parameters of HII Galaxies | p. 143 |
| NIR Properties of the UCM Star-Forming Galaxies | p. 147 |
| Mrk 86: A 'Not-So-Dark' Galaxy | p. 151 |
| Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies: Dynamical Evolution | p. 155 |
| Stellar Populations in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies | p. 159 |
| Kinematics of Gas and Stars in Spiral Galaxies | p. 163 |
| Towards an Understanding of the [lambda]4000A Break Behaviour in Old Stellar Populations | p. 167 |
| Stellar [alpha] Elements Abundance Gradient in M33 | p. 171 |
| Infrared Astrophysics in the Space with ISO: From ISO to FIRST | p. 175 |
| Temperature Fluctuations in Galactic HII Regions | p. 193 |
| Spectroscopic Study of the Cygnus Superbubble | p. 197 |
| Observations Towards Star Formation Regions: H[subscript 2] Near-Infrared Emission Lines | p. 201 |
| Far-Infrared CO Rotational Lines in the Orion Molecular Cloud | p. 205 |
| Distance Scales After Hipparcos | p. 209 |
| Calibration of the Classical Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation from Hipparcos Data | p. 215 |
| The Absolute Magnitude of RR Lyraes: From Hipparcos Parallaxes and Proper Motions | p. 219 |
| Radiative Transfer Under Inhomogeneous Configurations | p. 223 |
| Wind and Disk Diagnostics in PMS Stars. A Critical Analysis | p. 227 |
| Chromospheric Activity of Weak-Lined T Tauri Stars | p. 231 |
| The Age of Beta Pic Type Stars: Vega, Fomalhaut, [beta] Pic and HR 4796 | p. 235 |
| Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars: Towards a New Age Scale for Young Open Clusters | p. 239 |
| On the Ionization Structure of Circumstellar Disks Around Be Type Stars | p. 243 |
| The Most Luminous Stars in Our Galaxy | p. 247 |
| The Pistol Star | p. 251 |
| Spectroscopic Analysis of Stars in Cyg OB2 | p. 255 |
| Radial Velocity Measurements with FXCOR | p. 259 |
| Stellar Winds and Mass Loss in A-Type Supergiants | p. 263 |
| Spectroscopic Survey of [delta] Sct Stars | p. 267 |
| Identification of [lambda] Bootis Stars Using IUE Spectra | p. 271 |
| Libraries of High and Mid-Resolution Spectra of F, G, K, and M Field Stars | p. 275 |
| Multi-wavelength Optical Observations of Chromospherically Active Binary Systems | p. 279 |
| Optical Classification of IRAS Post-AGB Candidates | p. 283 |
| Consequences of the Collison Between the Gas Ejected in the Collapse of a White Dwarf and a Low-Mass Star | p. 287 |
| Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars | p. 291 |
| Standard Spectral Evolutionary Sequence for Type Ia Supernovae | p. 295 |
| CCD Photometry in Very Young Open Clusters | p. 299 |
| The Mass Function at the End of the Main Sequence: the M35 Open Cluster | p. 303 |
| Astrometry and Photometry of Open Clusters: NGC 1746, NGC 1750 and NGC 1758 | p. 307 |
| Submilliarcsecond Astrometry Over Large Sky Separations | p. 311 |
| GAIA: Fundamental Parameters from the Space | p. 315 |
| High Precision Astrometry with VLBI: From the Triangle 1803+784/1928+738/2007+777 to the Complete S5 Polar Cap Sample | p. 319 |
| The Evershed Effect in Sunspots: A Theoretical Explanation | p. 323 |
| 3-D Helioseismology: Rings and Horizontal Flows | p. 327 |
| SIR: an Inversion Technique of Spectral Lines | p. 331 |
| Probing the Solar Subphotospheric Layers Using Ring Analysis | p. 335 |
| A New Observational Strategy to Search for Solar g-Modes | p. 339 |
| Centre-To-Limb Variation of the Solar Granulation | p. 343 |
| The Solar Rotation Rate [Omega] (r,[Theta]) | p. 347 |
| An Overview of Saturn's Equatorial Storms: 1990-1997 | p. 351 |
| The GTC: An Advanced 10 m Telescope for the ORM | p. 355 |
| The EMIR Near-Infrared Multi-Object Spectrography for GTC | p. 361 |
| An Optical Intermediate Dispersion Spectrograph for the GTC (ODIN: Espectrografo Optico de Dispersion INtermedia) | p. 365 |
| OSIRIS. Imaging and Spectroscopy for the GTC | p. 369 |
| Site-Testing Results at La Palma Observatory | p. 373 |
| Status and Results from the HEGRA Air Shower Experiment | p. 377 |
| Spanish Participation in the Millimeter Array | p. 381 |
| SIXE: A Payload for MINSAT-02 | p. 389 |
| EURD: First Year Results | p. 393 |
| Dynamics and Control for a Small Telescope | p. 397 |
| Women in the History of Astronomy | p. 401 |
| Considerations on the Teaching and the Popularization of Cosomology | p. 405 |
| Author Index | p. 409 |
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