| Preface | |
| Photograph of Participants | |
| List of Participants | |
| Conquering Ignorance: Data, Information and Knowledge | |
| Multi-Object Spectroscopy with Optical Fibres | p. 3 |
| Objective-Prisms on Schmidt Telescopes: Past Activity and Future Prospects | p. 17 |
| Flair on the UK Schmidt Telescope | p. 25 |
| 2dF: The Two-Degree Field Facility on the AAT | p. 33 |
| The Spectroscopic Survey of the SDSS | p. 41 |
| Spectroscopy with FORS | p. 49 |
| The VLT-Virmos Deep Redshift Survey | p. 55 |
| A Concept Design of the Positioner of the Optical Fibers of the LAMOST | p. 63 |
| The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopy Telescope (LAMOST) Project | p. 67 |
| The Gemini Multiobject Spectrographs | p. 73 |
| Multi-Object Spectroscopy and Radio Surveys | p. 81 |
| The Spectroscopic Plate Archives in the Wide-Field Plate Database | p. 87 |
| Exploring Terabyte Archives in Astronomy | p. 95 |
| Automated Objective Prism Spectral Classification Using Neural Networks | p. 103 |
| Automatic Classification of Digitized Objective Prism Spectra | p. 109 |
| The New Multifunctional Spectrograph at the Bosque Alegre Station | p. 115 |
| Multi-Object Spectrograph TAUMOK | p. 117 |
| A Simple Automatic Method of Determining the Positions of Spectra on Objective-Prism Images | p. 119 |
| DS[superscript 3]: Drift Scanning Survey Spectrograph | p. 121 |
| A System for the Analysis of Objective Prism Data | p. 123 |
| Wide-Field Spectroscopy with 3.5 Degree Objective Prism and 50/70 cm Rozhen Schmidt Telescope | p. 125 |
| Objective Prism Spectra Database of the 70 cm Meniscus Telescope | p. 127 |
| Wide Field Spectroscopy and the Structure of the Galaxy | p. 133 |
| Some Objectives of the Wide Field Spectroscopy in the Nearest Galaxies | p. 145 |
| The Impact of Multi Object Spectroscopy on the Study of Dwarf Spferoidal Galaxies Orbiting the MW | p. 153 |
| Planetary Nebulae in Extragalactic Systems | p. 161 |
| Stellar Systems in the Magellanic Clouds | p. 169 |
| B-Stars Towards the Galactic Center | p. 177 |
| Distribution of Carbon Stars in the LMC | p. 181 |
| Objective Prism Spectral Survey of [actual symbol not reproducible] Stars | p. 185 |
| Deep Spectral Survey of Carbon Stars in the Near Infrared | p. 189 |
| Spectroscopic Parallaxes in Determining the Correction of Relative to Absolute Parallax | p. 195 |
| Lithium in the Old Open Cluster M67: Constraints for the Cause of the Boesgaard LI Gap | p. 201 |
| Measuring Radial Velocities of Orion Association Members Using the UK Schmidt Flair | p. 205 |
| Spectral Metallicity in M33 | p. 207 |
| Slitless and Multi-Slit Spectroscopy of Typical Objects in Nearby Galaxies | p. 209 |
| Deep Survey for Carbon Stars in the Yellow-Red Spectral Region | p. 211 |
| A Sulphur Abundance Gradient in NGC 300 | p. 215 |
| Wide-Area Interference Spectroscopy of the Ionized Gas Surrounding the OCL-352 (IC-1805) Stellar Association | p. 217 |
| A Kinematical and Chemical Probe of the Galaxy | p. 219 |
| Multiwavelength Spectroscopy of the Late Type Star IRAS 18530 + 0817 | p. 221 |
| Velocity and Line Profile Variations in Massive Stars, Wolf-Rayet Stars and their Origin | p. 223 |
| Wide Field Spectroscopy and the Universe | p. 227 |
| The ESO Slice Project (ESP) Redshift Survey | p. 241 |
| The Luminosity Function and Mean Density of Galaxies from the ESO Slice Project (ESP) Redshift Survey | p. 247 |
| A Deep 20 cm Radio Mosaic of the ESO Slice Project Galaxy Redshift Survey | p. 253 |
| The Z [actual symbol not reproducible] 0 Universe | p. 259 |
| The Canada France Redshift Survey | p. 267 |
| Multifiber Spectroscopy Applied to Small Groups of Galaxies | p. 277 |
| Complete Spectroscopic Surveys of Nearby Galaxy Clusters | p. 281 |
| Towards an Objectivity Defined Catalog of Galaxy Clusters from the Digitized POSS-II | p. 285 |
| A Galaxy Cluster at 0.82 in the NEP ROSAT Survey | p. 287 |
| The Velocity Dispersions Distribution of Galaxy Clusters | p. 289 |
| The Cluster Velocity Field in Dark Matter Models | p. 293 |
| A Survey in the Direction of the Great Attractor | p. 299 |
| The UKST Flair-Denis Survey | p. 303 |
| Study of the Shapley Concentration | p. 305 |
| Comparing the Predicted ABELL/ACO Cluster and the MKIII Galaxy Density and Velocity Fields | p. 311 |
| The Muenster Redshift Project (MRSP) | p. 315 |
| The Second Byurakan Survey: Galaxies | p. 321 |
| Surveys of Starburst Galaxies | p. 325 |
| Diagnostics of Dust Obscured Galactic Nuclei with ISO Spectroscopy | p. 341 |
| A Redshift Survey of Obscured Galaxies | p. 345 |
| The QSO Evolution Derived from the HBQS and Other Complete QSO Surveys | p. 347 |
| Optical Surveys of Quasars | p. 357 |
| The Hamburg Objective Prism Surveys for Bright Quasars | p. 373 |
| The Space Density of z]4 Quasars from the Second Palomar Sky Survey | p. 381 |
| Panel Discussion | p. 385 |
| Conference Summary | p. 395 |
| Author Index | p. 403 |
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