Towards Understanding Galaxies at Large Redshift: Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop of the Advanced School of Astronomy of the Ettore Majorana Centre (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1. Pupulations and Processes in Spheroidal Systems.- Optical and Infrared Studies of Stellar Populations: The Galactic Nuclear Bulge.- The Formation of Galactic Spheroids.- Global Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies: A. Optical Properties.- Global Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies: B. Ultraviolet Enercy Distributions.- Interpreting Integrated Spectra.- Integrated Colors of Galaxies of Composite Metallicity.- Evolutionary Population Synthesis: A New Grid of Models.- The Integrated Spectra of Globular Clusters.- A New Approach for Stellar Population Synthesis in Galaxy Nuclei: A Library of Star Clusters.- Galactic Winds in Ellipticals: Consequences for Galactic and Intergalactic Enrichment.- 2. Star-Forming Disk Systems.- Global Properties and Stellar Populations of Spiral Galaxies.- The Formation of Galactic Disks.- Spiral Structure and Galaxy Evolution.- Some Recent Results on the Dynamical Evolution of Galactic Structures.- Starburst Galaxies.- Ring Galaxies as Probes of Starburst Evolution.- Large-Scale Variations in the Luminosity Function of Galaxies.- Some Remarks about Modelling the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies.- 3. Field and Cluster Galaxies at Large Redshift.- Distant Galaxies: Limits on Cosmology and Evolution.- Galaxy Morphology at Large Redshift.- The Red Envelope and the Age of the Universe.- Evidence for Luminosity and Color Evolution in Faint Field Galaxies.- Results from a Sample of 1000 Field Galaxies.- Deep Imaging of Field Galaxies at Short Wavelengths.- A Deep Redshift Survey of Field Galaxies.- New Limits on the Surface Density of z = 5 Primeval Galaxies.- Clusters of Galaxies.- Cluster Galaxies at High Redshift.- Distribution of Colors in the z = 0.24 Cluster II Zw 1305.4 + 2941.- Spectroscopic Observations of Galaxies in A370.- Near-Infrared Observations of Distant Cluster Ellipticals.- Lyman-Alpha Galaxies at Large Redshifts.- Comments on the Reality of the Butcher-Oemler Effect.- 4. Active Galactic Nucle.- The Rise and Fall of the Active Galactic Nuclei.- Properties of Galaxies near Quasars.- Quasar Absorption Lines and High Redshift Galaxies.- 5. New Techniques and Instrumentation.- The Gregorian Upgrade at Arecibo and its Impact on Some Aspects of Extragalactic Research.- High Resolution Imaging in the Infrared Using Adaptive Optics.- Applications of the Tully-Fisher Relation at High Redshift.