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GRADUATE SCHOOL IN ASTRONOMY: X Special Courses at the National Observatory of Rio de Janeiro; X CCE

X Ciclo de Cursos Especiais, Observatório Nacional - X CCE

Simone Daflon, Observatório Nacional, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; Jailson Alcaniz, Observatório Nacional, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; Eduardo Telles, Observatório Nacional, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; Ramiro de la Reza, Observatório Nacional, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


AIP Conference Proceedings 843


Conference Location and Date: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 26-30 September 2005

Subseries: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Published June 2006; ISBN 0-7354-0336-8 One Volume, Print; 190 pages; 6 3/8 X 9 1/4 inches; Hardcover; $125.00

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in astronomy and astrophysics.

These proceedings contain four lectures presented at the X Special Courses, the Graduate School in Astronomy of the Observatório Nacional in Brazil. These annual schools started in 1996 and provide graduate students and post-docs with a broad view of selected topics in astronomy and astrophysics. Each year four specialists from different areas are invited to give a course of lectures in their field of research. This year, these courses cover planetary disks, globular clusters, dwarf galaxies, and cosmology.

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