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Karl Schwarzschild lecture:<br> The Dawn of X-Ray Astronomy<br> Riccardo Giacconi, Washington, USA<br> <br> Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture<br> The Second Stars,<br> Falk Herwig, Los Alamos, USA<br> <br> Galactic Centre<br> Andreas Eckart, Cologne , Germany<br> <br> Cosmological Structures behind the Milky Way<br> Renee Kraan-Korteweg, Guanajuato , Mexico and Cape Town, South Africa<br> <br> Tides, Gas Striping and Star Formation in the Evolution of Galaxies<br> Jan Palous, Praha , Czech Republic<br> <br> New Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies<br> Peter Schuecker, Garching , Germany<br> <br> The Origin of Brown Dwarfs<br> Viki Joergens, Leiden, The Netherlands<br> <br> Structures in the Interstellar Medium<br> Sona Ehlerova, Praha, Czech Republic<br> <br> Continuous Star Formation in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies<br> Simone Recchi, Garching, Germany<br> <br> The Proper Motion and Geometric Distance of M33<br> Andreas Brunthaler, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands<br> <br> Star Formation in Merging Galaxy Clusters<br> Chiara Ferrari, Innsbruck, Austria<br> <br> The Evolution of Field Spiral Galaxies over the Past 8 Gyrs<br> Asmus Bohm and Bodo L. Ziegler, Gottingen, Germany<br>

Dr. Siegfried Roser<br> Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg und<br> Schriftfuhrer der Astronomischen Gesellschaft

Volume 18 continues the Reviews in Modern Astronomy with twelve invited reviews and highlight contributions which were presented during the International Scientific Conference of the Society on the topic "From Cosmological Structures to the Milky Way", held in Prague, Czech Republic, September 20 to 25, 2004.<br> The contributions to the meeting published in this volume discuss, among other subjects, X-ray astronomy, cosmology, star formation and the Galactic Centre.

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