Planetary Systems: Formation, Evolution, and Detection

The Search for Other Planets: Clues from the Solar System.- Formation and Evolution of Planets.- Possible Consequences of Absence of “Jupiters” in Planetary Systems.- Dust Blobs in the Solar Nebula-Primary Distended Atmosphere.- Formation and Properties of Fluffy Planetesimals.- Radial Migration of Planetesimals.- Very Low Mass Stars, Black Dwarfs and Planets.- Interaction of Planetary Nebulae with Prenebulae Debris.- Toward Planets around Neutron Stars.- On the Detection of Mutual Perturbations as Proof of Planets around PSR1257+12.- Planets around Pulsars: A Review.- Detection of Accreting Circumstellar Gas around Weak Emission-Line Herbig Ae/Be Stars.- The Evidence for Clumpy Accretion in the Herbig Ae Star Hr 5999.- Protoplanetary Dust Clouds in Disks of Herbig Ae/Be Stars.- Identification of a Collapsing Protostar.- Cometary-Like Bodies in the Protoplanetary Disk around ? Pictoris.- Synthetic Images of Proto-Planetary Disks around Young Stars.- New Observations of the ? Pictoris Circumstellar Disk with the Jhu Adaptive Optics Coronagraph.- Inner Part Observation of the ? Pictoris Disk.- The Detection and Study of Pre-Planetary Disks.- Millimeter Continuum Measurements of Circumstellar Dust around Very Young Low-Mass Stars.- The Search for Protostars Using Millimeter/Submillimeter Dust Emission as a Tracer.- Cold Dust around Chamaeleon Stars.- Cloudy Circumstellar Dust Shells around Young Variable Stars.- 10-?m Images and Spectra of T Tauri Stars.- The Nobeyama Millimeter Array Survey for Protoplanetary Disks around Protostar Candidates and T Tauri Stars in Taurus.- High-Precision Vlbi Astrometric Observations of Radio-Emitting Stars for Detection of Extra-Solar Planets.- Millimetre Photometry and Infrared Spectroscopy of Vega-Excess Stars.- Long, Accurate Time Series Measurements of Radial Velocities of Solar-Type Stars.- A High-Precision Radial-Velocity Survey for Other Planetary Systems.- Multiplex Approach to the Photometric Detection of Planets.- Searching for Planets by Differential Astrometry with Large Telescopes.- On the Search for O2 in Extrasolar Planets.- How to Evidence Life on a Distant Planet.- The Photometric Method of Extrasolar Planet Detection Revisited.- Todcor: A Two-Dimensional Correlation Technique to Analyze Stellar Spectra in Search of Faint Companions.- Development of Absolute Accelerometry.- Extrasolar Planet Detection.- Indirect Planet Detection with Ground-Based Long-Baseline Interferometry.- Direct Imaging of Planetary Systems with a Ground-Based Radio Telescope Array.- Infrared and Sub-Millimeter Searches for Extra-Solar Planetary Systems from Antarctica.- Sirtf: Capabilities for the Study of Planetary Systems.- Planetary System Evolution and the Vega Stars: The Potential for Esa’s Infrared Space Observatory.- The Edison Infrared Space Observatory and the Study of Extra-Solar Planetary Material.- The Astrometric Imaging Telescope: Detection of Planetary Systems with Imaging and Astrometry.- The Circumstellar Imager: Direct Detection of Extra-Solar Planetary Systems.- Modelling of a Space-Based Ronchi Ruling Experiment for High-Precision Astrometry.- Author Index.- List of Participants.