InhaltsangabePart I: Extended Topics. 1. Nuclear Astrophysics: Evolution of Stars from Hydrogen Burning to Supernova Explosion; K. Langanke. 2. Pulsars as Probes of Relativistic Gravity, Nuclear Matter, and Astrophysical Plasmas; James M. Cordes. 3. Theory of Gamma-Ray Burst Sources; Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz. 4. Understanding Galaxy Formation and Evolution; Vladimir Avila-Reese. 5. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays: from GeV to ZeV; Gustavo Medina Tanco. 6. Part II: Astronomical Technical Reviews. 7. Radio Astronomy: The Achievements and the Challenges; Luis F. Rodriguez. 8. Gamma-Ray Astrophysics - before GLAST; Alberto Carramiñana. 9. Gravitational Wave Detectors: a new window to the Universe; Gabriela Gonzalez. Part III: Research Short Contributions. 10. Hybrid Extensive Air Shower Detector Array at the University of Puebla to Study Cosmic Rays; O. Martinez, E. Perez, H. Salazar, L. Villaseñor. 11. Search for Gamma Ray Bursts at Sierra Negra, Mexico; H. Salazar, L. Villaseñor, C. Alvarez, O. Martinez. 12. Are there strangelets trapped by the geomagnetic field?; J.E. Horvath, G.A. Medina Tanco, L. Paulucci. 13. Late time behavior of non spherical collapse of Scalar Field Dark Matter; Argelia Bernal, F. Siddhartha Guzman. 14. Inhomogeneous dark matter in non-trivial interaction with dark energy; Roberto A. Sussman, Israel Quiros and Osmel Martin Gonzalez. 15. Mini-review on scalar field dark matter; L. Arturo Ureña-Lopez. Index.

Alberto Carramiñana: Ph.D. in high energy astronomy from the University of Durham. Posdoctoral researcher at the ESTEC center of the European Space Agengy and since 1993 full time researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica in Tonantzintla, México.

Part I: Extended Topics. 1. Nuclear Astrophysics: Evolution of Stars from Hydrogen Burning to Supernova Explosion; K. Langanke. 2. Pulsars as Probes of Relativistic Gravity, Nuclear Matter, and Astrophysical Plasmas; James M. Cordes. 3. Theory of Gamma-Ray Burst Sources; Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz. 4. Understanding Galaxy Formation and Evolution; Vladimir Avila-Reese. 5. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays: from GeV to ZeV; Gustavo Medina Tanco. 6. Part II: Astronomical Technical Reviews. 7. Radio Astronomy: The Achievements and the Challenges; Luis F. Rodriguez . 8. Gamma-Ray Astrophysics - before GLAST; Alberto Carraminana. 9. Gravitational Wave Detectors: a new window to the Universe; Gabriela Gonzalez. Part III: Research Short Contributions. 10. Hybrid Extensive Air Shower Detector Array at the University of Puebla to Study Cosmic Rays; O. Martinez, E. Perez, H. Salazar, L. Villasenor. 11. Search for Gamma Ray Bursts at Sierra Negra, Mexico; H. Salazar, L. Villasenor, C. Alvarez, O. Martinez. 12. Are there strangelets trapped by the geomagnetic field?; J.E. Horvath, G.A. Medina Tanco, L. Paulucci. 13. Late time behavior of non spherical collapse of Scalar Field Dark Matter; Argelia Bernal, F. Siddhartha Guzman. 14. Inhomogeneous dark matter in non-trivial interaction with dark energy; Roberto A. Sussman, Israel Quiros and Osmel Martin Gonzalez. 15. Mini-review on scalar field dark matter; L. Arturo Urena-Lopez. Index.