| Contents of the CD-ROM | p. 1 |
| Foreword | p. 7 |
| List of Participants | p. 9 |
| Major Unsolved Problems in Star Formation | p. 17 |
| The Stellar mass function of Galactic clusters and its evolution | p. 25 |
| Encounters and Close Fly-Bys of Galactic Clusters and Associations in the past 50 Myr | p. 33 |
| Solar-Type Post-T Tauri Stars in the Nearest OB Subgroups | p. 39 |
| NGC 2362: The shape of the pre-main-sequence from A-stars to brown dwarfs | p. 47 |
| Young stars and their circumstellar disks in the [sigma] Orionis cluster | p. 55 |
| The Oph-Sco-Lup-Cen-Cru-Mus-Cha star-formation region | p. 63 |
| The gas-to-dust ratio and metallurgy of nearby dark clouds probed by X-ray absorption measurements | p. 73 |
| SACY - a Search for Associations Containing Young stars | p. 83 |
| Age determination of the Ursa Major Association | p. 91 |
| Accretion Powered Emission in Young Stellar Objects | p. 99 |
| The pre-main sequence spectroscopic binary AK Sco | p. 107 |
| Survey of Young Stellar Objects associated with Molecular Clouds | p. 115 |
| The Stellar population of Embedded Galactic Massive Star Clusters | p. 121 |
| Spectroscopic Analysis of 131 Herbig Ae/Be Candidate Stars | p. 127 |
| Classification of the Pico dos Dias Survey Herbig Ae/Be stars | p. 133 |
| Chemical composition study of an accretion episode in the Herbig candidate star PDS080 | p. 141 |
| Magnetically channeled accretion in T Tauri stars | p. 147 |
| Properties of Young Stellar Objects from High Resolution Near Infrared Spectroscopy | p. 159 |
| Probing the circumstellar structure of pre-main sequence stars | p. 169 |
| Accretion signatures in the X-ray spectrum of TW Hya | p. 177 |
| Post-T Tauri Stars Rotation in Associations | p. 185 |
| Star Formation in Canis Majoris | p. 193 |
| X-ray emission from NGC2362 | p. 199 |
| Accretion and Ejection | p. 205 |
| The origin of jets in young stars | p. 213 |
| Non coeval young multiple systems? | p. 223 |
| Brown dwarfs in young open clusters | p. 235 |
| Brown Dwarf Companions | p. 245 |
| Observational Clues to Brown Dwarf Origins | p. 251 |
| Surface Gravity & Mass in Young Brown Dwarfs and Planemos | p. 259 |
| FU Orionis Eruptions and the Formation of Close Binaries | p. 269 |
| SEDs of Flared Dust Disks | p. 279 |
| On the alignment of T Tauri stars with the local magnetic field | p. 287 |
| Temporal evolution of main sequence dusty disks | p. 295 |
| Numerical Simulations of Young Stellar Jets: From One Tenth to Parsec Scales | p. 303 |
| Alfven Waves in Disks, Outflows and Jets | p. 311 |
| Submillimeter Studies of Protostellar Cores | p. 319 |
| Detection of a collimated jet towards the high-mass protostar IRAS 16547-4247 | p. 331 |
| Disks and Halos in Pre-Main-Sequence Stars | p. 339 |
| Radiative Transfer in Prestellar Cores: a Monte Carlo approach | p. 347 |
| The Initial Conditions for Star Formation | p. 359 |
| Chemical signatures of new star formation toward young stellar clusters | p. 367 |
| Collapse of Molecular Clouds Leading to Star Formation | p. 375 |
| Star formation in globules | p. 383 |
| SIMBA survey toward high-mass star forming regions in the southern hemisphere | |
| Conference summary and conclusions | p. 397 |
| Author Index | p. 401 |
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