Reviews in Modern Astronomy 21:

Formation and Evolution of Cosmic Structures

Description:

This 21st volume in the series contains 15 invited reviews and highlight contributions presented during the 2008 International Scientific Conference of the German Astronomical Society on the topic of "New Challenges to European Astronomy", held in Vienna, Austria.
The papers discuss a wide range of hot topics, including cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, astroparticle physics gravitational waves, extragalactic and stellar astronomy -- together representing the roadmap for modern astrophysical research.

Table of Contents:

• Karl Schwarzschild Lecture:
  The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination
  Rashid Sunyaev, MPG

• The Present status of Modified Newtonian Dynamics
  Robert Sanders, University of Groningen (NL)

• The High-z Universe: Probing Galaxy Formation
  Sadegh Khochfar, MPG

• The Evolution of Disk Galaxies in a Dark Matter-dominated Universe
  Eric Bell, MPG

• The development of Disc Truncations from z = 1 to the Present Day: John Beckman Direct Evidence of Inside-out Galaxy Growth
  J.E. Beckman, Astrophysical Institute of Canary Islands (E)

• Ludwig Biermann Lecture :
  Complexity in Small-scale Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
  Andreas Koch, UCLA (USA)

• The High Mass End of Extragalactic Globular Clusters
  Michael Hilker, ESO

• Star Cluster Evolution: The first 100 Myr
  Genevieve Parmentier, University of Bonn

• The Prehistoric Era: Star Formation before Spitzer (LYMAN)
  Virginia Trimble, University of Maryland (USA)

• Lyman Spitzer and the Physics of Star Formation
  Bruce Elmegreen, IBM (USA)

• Evolution of Massive Stars Along the Cosmic History
  Georges Meynet, University of Geneva (CH)

• Overview of the Solar System Formation
  Aurelien Crida, University of Tübingen

• Gas and Dust Chemistry in Disks
  Klaus Pontoppidan, CALTECH (USA)

• Women in Astronomy
  Meg Urry, Yale (USA)

• Present and Future Solar Space Missions
  Sami Solanki, MPG