Reviews in Modern Astronomy, Cosmic Matter

This 20th volume in the series contains 16 invited reviews and highlight contributions presented during the 2007 International Scientific Conference of the German Astronomical Society on the topic of "Cosmic Matter", held in Würzburg, Germany.
The papers published here 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 astroparticle physics in Europe.

Autorentext
Dr. Siegfried Roser, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg (Editor on behalf of the Astronomische Gesellschaft)

Klappentext
The annual Reviews in Modern Astronomy was established in 1988 in order to bring the scientific events held by the German Astronomical Society to the attention of the worldwide astronomical community. The series is devoted exclusively to the Karl Schwarzschild Lectures and to publishing reports from leading scientists on recent progress and scientific achievements in their respective fields of research.
This volume continues the series with 16 invited reviews and highlight contributions presented during the Society's International Scientific Conference on the topic of "Cosmic Matter", held in Wurzburg, Germany, in September 2007.
The papers published here discuss a wide range of hot topics, including cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, astroparticle physics gravitational waves, extragalactic and stellar astronomy -- representing the roadmap for astroparticle physics in Europe.

Inhalt
Karl Schwarzschild Lecture:
Als die Computer die Astronomie eroberten (in German)
Rudolf Kippenhahn

Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture I
Massive Star Formation: The Power of Interferometry
Henrik Beuther

Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture II
At the Bottom of the Main Sequence
Activity and Magnetic Fields Beyond the Threshold to Complete Convection
Ansgar Reiners

Thirty Years of Research in Cosmology, Particle Physics and Astrophysics and how Many More to Discover Dark Matter?
Celine Boehm

Structure Formation in the Expanding Universe: Dark and Bright Sides
Anatoly Klypin and Daniel Ceverino

From COBE to Planck
Matthias Bartelmann

Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Konstantinos D. Kokkotas

High-(Energy)-Lights -
The Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Sky
Dieter Horns

Astronomy with Ultra High-energy Particles
Jorg R. Horandel

The Assembly of Present-Day Galaxies as Witnessed by Deep Surveys
Klaus Meisenheimer

The First Stars
Volker Bromm

Pulsar Timing -
From Astrophysics to Fundamental Physics
Michael Kramer

Hydrodynamical Simulations of the Bullet Cluster
Chiara Mastropietro and Andreas Burkert

Massive Stars as Tracers for Stellar and Galactochemical Evolution
Norbert Przybilla

Formation and Evolution of Brown Dwarfs
Alexander Scholz

Status and Perspectives of Astroparticle Physics in Europe
Christian Spiering