Author Description

Contributions from international researchers attending the 1999 conference in Spain are organized into sections on the formation of stars and planets, advances in solar physics, chemical abundances as diagnostics of stellar structure, unsolved problems in stellar activity, and the impact of space missions on the study of cool stars. A sampling of topics includes accretion shocks and winds in T Tauri stars, solar atmospheric dynamics, light element depletion in F- and G- type stars, latest results in Doppler imaging, and the Hipparcos Mission legacy for cool stars. The included CD-ROM contains all the contributions given at the conference in their entirety, including supporting images, animations, and films. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)