Kurzbeschreibung Volume 20 continues the Reviews in Modern Astronomy series with 16 invited reviews and highlight contributions presented during the German Astronomical Society's International Scientific Conference on "Cosmic Matter", held in Würzburg, Germany, in September 2007.
Aus dem Inhalt Karl Schwarzschild Lecture: Als die Computer die Astronomie eroberten (in German) Rudolf Kippenhahn
Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture I Massive Star Formation: The Power of Interferometry Henrik Beuther
Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture II At the Bottom of the Main Sequence Activity and Magnetic Fields Beyond the Threshold to Complete Convection Ansgar Reiners
Thirty Years of Research in Cosmology, Particle Physics and Astrophysics and how Many More to Discover Dark Matter? Celine Boehm
Structure Formation in the Expanding Universe: Dark and Bright Sides Anatoly Klypin and Daniel Ceverino
From COBE to Planck Matthias Bartelmann
Gravitational Wave Astronomy Konstantinos D. Kokkotas
High-(Energy)-Lights - The Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Sky Dieter Horns
Astronomy with Ultra High-energy Particles Jörg R. Hörandel
The Assembly of Present-Day Galaxies as Witnessed by Deep Surveys Klaus Meisenheimer
The First Stars Volker Bromm
Pulsar Timing - From Astrophysics to Fundamental Physics Michael Kramer
Hydrodynamical Simulations of the Bullet Cluster Chiara Mastropietro and Andreas Burkert
Massive Stars as Tracers for Stellar and Galactochemical Evolution Norbert Przybilla
Formation and Evolution of Brown Dwarfs Alexander Scholz
Status and Perspectives of Astroparticle Physics in Europe Christian Spiering
