THE EDITORS: DAVID L. BLOCK AND KENNETH C. FREEMAN (SOC CO-CHAIRS), IVANIO PUERARI, ROBERT GROESS AND LIZ K. BLOCK 1. Harvard College Observatory, 1958 The past century has truly brought about an explosive period of growth and discovery for the physical sciences as a whole, and for astronomy in particular. Galaxy morphology has reached a renaissance. The year: 1958. The date: October 1. The venue: Harvard College Observatory. The lecturer: Walter Baade. With amazing foresight, Baade penned these words: "Young stars, supergiants and so on, make a terrific splash - lots of light. The total mass of these can be very small compared to the total mass of the system". Dr Layzer then asked the key question: ". the discussion raises the point of what this classification would look like if you were to ignore completely all the Population I, and just focus attention on the Population II. " We stand on the shoulders of giants. The great observer E. E. Barnard, in his pioneering efforts to photograph the Milky Way, devoted the major part of his life to identifying and numbering dusty "holes" and dust lanes in our Milky Way. No one could have dreamt that the pervasiveness of these cosmic dust masks (not only in our Galaxy but also in galaxies at high redshift) is so great, that their "penetration" is truly one of the pioneering challenges from both space-borne telescopes and from the ground.

InhaltsangabeThe Editors - Preface A Tribute to Cosmic Dust Pioneer J. Mayo Greenberg D.L. Block The Hubble Tuning Fork Strikes a New Note D.L. Block et al. Episodes in the Development of the Hubble Galaxy Classification A. Sandage Secular Evolution Versus Hierarchical Merging: Galaxy Evolution along the Hubble-sequence, in the Fields and Rich Environments F. Combes Dense Gas and Star Formation in Bars S. Huttemeister On the Origin of S0 Galaxies U.-Fritze v. Alvensleben Gravitational Bar Torques in the Spiral/S0 Divide R. Buta Direct Measurement of Pattern Speeds In Double-Barred SB0's E.M. Corsini et al. Gas Flows, Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution J.E. Beckman et al. Bar-Driven Evolution and 2D Spectroscopy of Bulges M. Bureau et al. Bar-Driven Fueling of Galactic Nuclei: a 2D view E. Emsellem Dust Penetrated Arm Classes: Insight form Rising and Falling Rotation Curves M.S. Seigar, D.L. Block, I. Puerari Bar Dissolution and Reformation Mechanisms F. Bournaud, F. Combes Dynamics of Doubly Barred Galaxies, also with the Inner Bar Retrograde W. Maciejewski A Coordinated Episode of AGB Star Production at Large Galactocentric Distances in the Andromeda Galaxy G. Worthey Fuelling Starbursts and AGN J.H. Knapen Penetrating Dust Tori in AGN G. Canalizo et al. Bars from the Inside Out: An HST Study of their Dusty Circumnuclear Regions P. Martini Morphology of Bar and Spiral Modes: do they relate? P.J. Grosbol Bar Formation by Galaxy-Galaxy Interactions M. Noguchi Triggering AGN's - Interactions or Bars? J.Lim et al. Triggered Star Formation: from Large to Small Scales J. Palous, J. Jachym, E. Ehlerova Investigation of Age and Metallicity Gradients in Spiral Galaxies B. Cunow Secular Evolution and the Growth of Pseudobulges in Disk Galaxies J. Kormedy, M.E. Cornell Bars and Lences in Spiral Galaxies: Clues for Secular Evolution L.K. Hunt, C. Giovanardi, M.A. Malkan Evolution and Impact of Bars over the last nine Gyr: Early Results from GEMS S.Jogee et al. First Phylogenetic Analysis of Galaxy Evolution D. Fraix-Burnet A Unified Picture of Disk Galaxies where Bars, Spirals and Warps Result from the Same Fundametal Causes D. Pfenninger, Y. Revez On the Generation of the Hubble Sequence trough an Internal Secular Dynamical Process X. Zhang The Angular Momentum Problem and the Formation of Bulgeless Galaxies E. D'Onghia, A, Burkert Disks Evolution in a Cosmological Framework A. Curir, P. Mazzel, G. Murante Galaxy Formation and the Cosmological Angular Momentum Problem A.M. Burkert, E. D'Onghia The Problems with Galxy Formation G. Lake The Interplay between Bars and Dark Matter Halos K. Holley-Bockelmann Resent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope: A New View of Galaxy Morphology and Classification G.G. Fazio et al. Using Bars as Signposts of Galaxy Evolution at High and Low Redshifts K. Sheth et al. The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey: Redshift Distribution of a IAB greater than or equals 24 Sample, and the Effect of Environment on Galaxy Evolution O. Le Fevre et al. An HST AOS/WFC Ha Imaging Survey of Nearby Galaxies R.A. Jansen HST Mid-UV Imaging of Nearby Galaxies R.A. Windhorst, V.A. Taylor, R.A. Jansen Bulges, Disks and Kinematics of Galaxies at z ~ 1 D.C. Koo Fourier Decomposition of Galaxies S.C. Odewahn The Evolutionary Status of Clusters of Galaxies at z ~ 1 H. Ford et al. Distant z greater than 2 Protoclusters and their Galaxies G. Miley et al. The Galaxy Structure - Redshift Relationship C.J. Conselice The Cosmic Bacground: Evolution of Infrared Galaxies and Dust Prope