The Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt symposium is a well established series of conferences, occurring on a 5-year cycle, on the dense interstellar medium and related topics. The main results constitute valuable proceedings that offer everyone working in this field an authoritative and comprehensive source of reference.

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I Gas and Dust at High Redshifts.- The First Stars and the Epoch of Reionization.- HI at High Redshift.- A Spectroscopic Survey of the Submillimeter Galaxy Population: 85 Redshifts Using Keck/LRIS-B.- The Quasar Q0957+561: Lensed CO Emission from a Disk at 1.4?.- II Molecular Spectroscopy and Astrophysics.- Molecular Astrophysics: An Integral Part of Astronomy.- The Ubiquitous Hin3sup+.- New Microwave and Optical Molecules.- Two Problems of Interstellar Chemistry.- Electronic Spectroscopy of Carbon Chains and Their Relevance to Astrophysics.- Highlights from the SWAS Mission.- Perspective from a Younger Generation - The Astro-spectroscopy of Gisbert Winnewisser.- Gisbert F. Winnewisser.- trans-Ethyl Methyl Ether: Laboratory Measurements and Analysis.- The Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy, CDMS.- Spectroscopy of Linear Carbon Chain Radicals - The Case of CnN Chains.- Precise Laboratory Rest Frequency of a Submillimeter-Wave Line of D2H+.- III Structure and Dynamics of the ISM in External Galaxies.- Molecular Gas in Spiral Galaxies.- The Spiral Arms of M51: Physical Properties of the Gas.- Molecular Gas in the Andromeda Galaxy.- CO Emission Associated with a Cooling Flow.- Triggered Star Formation on Galactic Scales.- CO (J = 7 ? 6) Observations of NGC 253: Exited Molecular Gas in the Nucleus.- NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA): The IRAM Survey of Low Luminosity AGN.- The Nearby QSO Host I Zw 1: NIR Probing of Structural Properties and Stellar Populations.- The Neutral ISM in Nearby Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies.- Giant Molecular Clouds and On-Going Star Formation in the LMC and SMC.- Molecular Gas in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies: Single Dish and Interferometric Results.- Molecular Gas in Dwarf Galaxies.- Detection of Molecular Gas in the Interarm Regions of M83.- A Masing Molecular Cloud in the Central Parsecs of Mrk 348.- The Spectral Line Survey of NGC 253.- Starburst at the Molecular Superbubble in M82.- Gas Dynamics in the Non-barred Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4501.- The Merger QSO 3C 48 and Its Host Galaxy in the Near Infrared.- IV Structure and Dynamics of the ISM in the Milky Way.- New Views of Neutral Hydrogen in the Milky Way.- The BU-FCRAO Galactic Ring Survey.- New View of Molecular Gas Distribution of the Southern Sky: CO Surveys with NANTEN.- OB Star Formation Across the Galaxy.- CII, CI, and CO in the Massive Star Forming Region W3 Main.- High-Angular Resolution HC3N and CS Observations of the Dense Core in the Cirrus Cloud MCLD123.5+24.9.- The KOSMA Multi-line CO Survey of Clouds in the Galactic Molecular Ring.- The Distribution of MSX Dark Clouds in the Inner Milky Way.- The Carbon Content in the Galactic CygnusX/DR21 Star Forming Region.- V Galactic Center.- Probing the Galactic Black Hole and Its Environment with the Orbits of Stars Experiencing Their Closest Approaches.- The Galactic Center: Breakthroughs with VLT/NACO.- Galactic Center Molecular Clouds.- The Line-of-Sight Distribution of Water in SgrB2.- Results from the AST/RO Survey of the Galactic Center Region.- SPIFI Imaging of the Galactic Center.- 350 µm Galactic Center Dust Observations with SHARC II.- The Hot Interstellar Medium of the Galactic Center: Observations with Chandra.- Non-Keplerian Orbits for the Star S2 Around the Black Hole at the Galactic Center.- The Galactic Center Interstellar Medium as Seen by ISO.- Dust Embedded Sources at the Galactic Center - 2 to 4 Micron Spectroscopy in the Central Parsec.- [CI] 492 GHz Study of the Galactic Center.- The Galactic Center in the IR - VLT Infrared Observations of the Galactic Center.- VI New Observatories and Instrumenation.- Imaging and Spectroscopy with the Next Generation of Optical/Near-IR Telescopes.- LINC-NIRVANA - The Interferometric Near-Infrared Imaging Camera for the Large Binocular Telescope.- The Future of Far-IR/Submillimeter Astrophysics with Single Dish Telescopes.- New Astronomy Results from the Odin Satellite.- From Molecular Cores to Planet-Forming Disks with SIRTF.- Observation Programs of the ASTRO-F Survey.- Exploration of Southern Sky with Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment (ASTE).- Dome C, Antarctica: The Best Accessible Sub-millimetre Site on the Planet?.- VII Magnetic Fields in the ISM.- What Drives Star Formation?.- Tracing the Magnetic Field in Molecular Clouds.- Grain Alignment in Molecular Clouds.- VIII Physical Conditions and Processes in the ISM.- Turbulent Structure of the Interstellar Medium.- Comparing Models and Observations of Turbulent Clouds.- Phases of the Interstellar Medium in the Milky Way.- Star Formation in Southern Bok Globules.- Condensed Phases of H2 in the ISM.- Collisional Excitation Processes Relevant to ISM Studies.- New Insights on the Thermal Dust from the Far-Infrared to the Centimeter.- Photodissociation Regions.- Molecular Clouds in Weak FUV Fields: Observations and PDR Model.- The Influence of Grains on the Propagation and Structure of C-Type Shock Waves in Interstellar Molecular Clouds.- L183 (134N) Dust, Gas and Depletion.- Density Structure of the Horsehead Nebula Photo-Dissociation Region.- Methanol: A Diagnostic Tool for High-Mass Star-Forming Regions.- IX Astrochemsitry.- Astrochemistry and Observations.- Molecular Evolution in Prestellar Cores.- Deuterium Fractionation in Totally Depleted Cores.- Multiply Deuterated Molecules in Star Forming Regions.- Grain Surface Chemistry.- Deuterated Species in Star-Forming Regions.- Gas-Grain Interactions and Chemical Influences on Star Forming Regions.- Spectroscopy of Interstellar PAHs.- Growth of Large Molecules and Small Grains.- PAHs in the Interstellar Carbon Cycle: The Experimental View of PIRENEA.- Small Carbon Chains and Rings in Photo-Dominated Regions.- Dust Chemistry in the Laboratory.- Far - IR Spectroscopy Towards Sagittarius B2.- H3/sup+ Line Survey Towards the Galactic Center.- A Far UV Spectroscopic Study of the HD 34078 Sightline.- Infrared Spectroscopy of Ionic PAHs and Related Compounds.- Chemistry and Kinematics of the Pre-Stellar Core L1544: Constraints from H2D+.- X Star Formation and Late Stages of Stellar Evolution.- The Ionization State of Protoplanetary Disks: The Chemical View.- Modeling Molecular-Line Emission from Circumstellar Disks.- NGC 7538S - A High-Mass Protostar with a Rotating Disk.- The Circumstellar Environments of High Mass Protostellar Objects.- Star Formation: Theory and MO'Delling.- Shock-Excited Rotational H2 Lines in Class 0 Sources as Probes of Magnetic Field and Chemistry in the Dense Interstellar Medium.- The Role of Pre-planetary Nebulae in the Shaping Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae.- The Mass Function of Newly Formed Stars.- A Square Degree Survey for Molecular Flows in TMC1.- Submillimetre Continuum Mapping: Finding Clues to the Physics of Star Formation.- Survey for High-Mass Protostars in Cygnus X.- Induced Massive Star Formation in Dense Molecular Clouds.- Disappearance of N2H+ from the Gas Phase in the Class 0 Protostar IRAM 04191.- The Massive Star Forming Region RCW 38 - from X-Rays to Molecular Gas.- Observation of Multiply-Deuterated Methanol in the Low-Mass Protostar IRAS16293-2422.- UYSO 1 - An Extremely Young Massive Stellar Object.- Millimeter Properties of the Protoplanetary Disk Surrounding HH 30.- Author Index.- Source Index.- Molecule Index.