| As Eyes See Young Stars Assemble: Star and Planet Formation in the VLT Era | p. 1 |
| Mapping the Interstellar Dust with Near-Infrared Observations: An Optimized Multi-Band Technique | p. 21 |
| Physical Properties of Prestellar Cores | p. 29 |
| Molecular Cloud Structure: The VLT View | p. 37 |
| The Physical Structure of a Prestellar Core in IC 5146 | p. 45 |
| From Infall to Rotation Around Young Stellar Objects | p. 53 |
| Mass Spectra from Turbulent Fragmentation | p. 61 |
| From Molecular Clouds to Planets: Prospects for ALMA | p. 67 |
| Continuum Polarization as a Tool: A Perspective for VLT and ALMA | p. 79 |
| The Mineralogy and Magnetism of Star and Planet Formation as Revealed by Mid-Infrared Spectropolarimetry | p. 85 |
| From the Sun to Jupiter: Evolution of Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs down to Planetary Masses | p. 93 |
| Core Collapse and the Formation of Binaries | p. 101 |
| The Formation and Evolution of Low-Mass Binary Systems: How Will VLT(I) Help? | p. 107 |
| The Formation of Brown Dwarfs | p. 114 |
| Disk Orientation in PMS Binary Systems Determined Through Polarimetric Imaging with UT1/FORS | p. 121 |
| Multiplicity of Young Brown Dwarfs in Cha I | p. 127 |
| Imaging with the VLT | p. 134 |
| The Formation of a Cluster of Stars and Brown Dwarfs in a Turbulent Molecular Cloud | p. 139 |
| Submm and MIR Imaging of Protostellar Clusters | p. 147 |
| Infrared Imaging of Embedded Clusters: Constraints for Star and Planet Formation | p. 155 |
| Modes of Star Formation and Constraints on the Birth Aggregate of our Solar System | p. 171 |
| The VLT and the Powers of 10: Young Clusters Home and Away | p. 179 |
| NIR Low-Resolution Spectroscopy of L-Dwarfs: An Efficient Classification Scheme for Faint Dwarfs | p. 187 |
| VLT/FORS Spectroscopy in [sigma] Orionis: Isolated Planetary Mass Candidate Members | p. 195 |
| Infrared Spectroscopy of Sub-Stellar Objects in Orion | p. 203 |
| Young Stars in [rho] Ophiuchi: Toward the Completeness down to Substellar Masses | p. 211 |
| Variability and Rotation in Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs | p. 219 |
| Infrared Observation of Hot Cores | p. 225 |
| An Overview of Induced Star Formation Near the Surfaces of Molecular Clouds | p. 232 |
| Ices in Star-Forming Regions: First Results from VLT-ISAAC | p. 238 |
| The Spectacular BHR 71 Outflow | p. 247 |
| High Angular Resolution Analyses of Herbig-Haro Jets | p. 253 |
| Structure of Magnetocentrifugal Disk-Winds: From the Launching Surface to Large Distances | p. 259 |
| Into the Twilight Zone: Reaching the Jet Engine with AMBER/VLTI | p. 267 |
| T Tauri Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: A Combined HST and VLT Effort | p. 275 |
| High-Resolution Near-IR Spectroscopy of Protostars with Large Telescopes | p. 283 |
| VLT/ISAAC Spectroscopy of Young Massive Stars Embedded in Ultra-Compact H II Regions | p. 291 |
| NGC 3603 IRS 9: The Revealment of a Cluster of Protostars and the Potential of Mid-IR Imaging with VLT + VISIR | p. 297 |
| Sub-Arcsecond Millimeter Imaging of Disks and Envelopes: Probing the Density Structure | p. 303 |
| VLA Studies of Disks Around T Tauri Stars | p. 311 |
| A Close View on the Protoplanetary Disk in the Bok Globule CB26 | p. 319 |
| Detecting Gaps in Protoplanetary Disks with MIDI at the VLTI | p. 325 |
| The Evolution of Circumstellar Disks: Lessons from the VLT and ISO | p. 331 |
| The Destruction of Circumstellar Discs | p. 339 |
| VISIR and the Formation of Stars and Planets | p. 345 |
| Mid Infrared Variability of Herbig Ae/Be Stars | p. 351 |
| Prospects for Star Formation Studies with Mid-Infrared Instruments on Large Telescopes | p. 359 |
| Adaptive Optics Search for Faint Companions Around Young Nearby Stars | p. 365 |
| Extra-Solar Planetary Systems in the VLT Era | p. 373 |
| Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Substellar Companions Next to Young Nearby Stars in TWA | p. 383 |
| VLT Observations of the Young Stellar Object TMR-1 | p. 391 |
| Searching for Planets in Stellar Clusters: Preliminary Results from the Hyades | p. 399 |
| The Kuiper Belt As An Evolved Circumstellar Disk | p. 405 |
| The VLTI and Its Instrumentation | p. 416 |
| Observing Young Stellar Objects with the VLT Interferometer | p. 423 |
| Preparing for the VLTI: A Search for Pre-Main Sequence Spectroscopic Binaries | p. 431 |
| From Protoplanetary to Debris Disks | p. 439 |
| Turbulent Radial Mixing in the Solar Nebula as the Source of Crystalline Silicates in Comets | p. 445 |
| X-Rays from Star-Forming Regions in the VLT Era | p. 453 |
| The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: SIRTF in the VLT Era | p. 463 |
| The Herschel Space Observatory and the Earliest Stages of Star Formation | p. 473 |
| A Look Forward to Star and Planet Formation with the NGST | p. 483 |
| Origin of Stars and Planets: The View from 2021 | p. 493 |
| Author Index | p. 513 |
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