Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics IV : proceedings of the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sea) Held in Barcelona, Spain, September 12-15, 2006 / edited by Francesca Figueras [and others]
Front Matter; Youth, Accretion, and Mass Loss at the End of the Main Sequence; The European Extremely Large Telescope; Gamma Ray Bursts: Lighthouses of the Universe; The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS); Galaxy Surveys in the Era of Large Ground-Based Observatories; The GTC 10 m Telescope: Getting Ready for First Light; OSIRIS: Status and Science; EMIR, the GTC NIR Multiobject Imager-Spectrograph; CanariCam: Instrument Status and Frontier Science; Radiative Transfer in Molecular Lines. Astrophysical Applications; The Star Formation History of Early-type Galaxies as a Function of Environment
Summary
This volume documents the contributions presented at the Seventh Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Espa?ola de Astronom?a, SEA). The event bought together 301 participants who presented 161 contributed talks and 120 posters, the greatest numbers up to now. The fact that most exciting items of the current astronomical research were addressed in the meeting proofs the good health of the SEA, a consolidated organization founded fifteen years ago in Barcelona. Two plenary sessions of the meeting were devoted to the approved entrance of Spain as a full member of the E