| Preface | 1 |
| Introduction | |
| Requirements for observations from chemodynamical models (Review) | 19 |
| Formation and Early Evolution of Galaxies | |
| Early formation and evolution of galaxies (Review) | 31 |
| Non-standard structure formation scenarios | 41 |
| Galaxy formation: Warm dark matter, missing satellites, and the angular momentum problem | 47 |
| Numerical modeling of galaxy evolution | 51 |
| The formation of the first luminous objects in the universe | 55 |
| Tests and constraints on theories of galaxy formation and evolution | 59 |
| Illuminating protogalaxies? The discovery of extended Lyman-[alpha] emission around a QSO at z = 4.5 | 63 |
| Modeling the Ly[alpha] radiation of high-redshift galaxies | 67 |
| Recombination emission from protoglobular clouds on high redshifts | 71 |
| Galics: A direct link between theory and observations | 75 |
| Predicting multi-wavelength properties of Lyman break galaxies with GalICS | 79 |
| Clustering evolution between z = 1 and today | 83 |
| Photometric redshifts for an optical/near-infrared catalogue in the Chandra Deep Field South | 87 |
| The FORS Deep Field: the photometric catalog | 91 |
| A survey searching for the epoch of assembling of Hubble types | 95 |
| Large-scale structure in the NIR-selected MUNICS survey | 99 |
| Clues on the Hubble sequence formation from self-consistent hydrodynamical simulations | 103 |
| The mix of disky and boxy ellipticals | 107 |
| Modelling the formation of individual galaxies: A morphology problem for CDM? | 111 |
| Early-type galaxies at low z from self-consistent hydrodynamical simulations | 117 |
| Pregalactic metal enrichment (Review) | 121 |
| Chemical enrichment of the intra-cluster medium | 131 |
| The evolution of cosmic star formation, metals and gas | 135 |
| Dust formation in damped Ly-alpha systems | 139 |
| Evidence for chemical evolution in spectra of high redshift galaxies | 143 |
| Large-Scale and Environmental Effects | |
| Scale interactions and galaxy evolution (Review) | 151 |
| Hints on the energetics of ICM | 161 |
| Environmental effects on galaxy properties | 165 |
| Evolutionary synthesis models for galaxy transformation in clusters | 169 |
| The gaseous Halo of the Virgo Cluster Galaxy NGC 4569 | 173 |
| Infrared galaxies in compact groups | 177 |
| The influence of mergings on galaxy evolution | 181 |
| Collisions and mergers of disk galaxies: Hydrodynamics of star forming gas | 185 |
| On the nature of high luminosity ULIRGs | 189 |
| Merging of low-mass systems and the origin of the fundamental plane | 193 |
| Evolution and destruction of bars | 197 |
| M51 revisited: A genetic algorithm approach of its interaction history | 201 |
| The gigantic interacting galaxy NGC 6872 | 205 |
| Probing the physics of interacting galaxies | 209 |
| I Zwicky 1: Decomposition and dynamics of the nearby QSO host | 213 |
| The warped gas and dust lane in NGC 3718 | 217 |
| Dynamical evolution of galactic disks driven by interaction with a satellite | 221 |
| The system of the Milky Way, LMC and SMC | 225 |
| Outer bulge and in-plane bar of the milky way | 229 |
| A new challenge: Bar formation and secular evolution in lenticular galaxies | 233 |
| Bar dissolution in non-spherical halos | 237 |
| What can biologists say about galaxy evolution? | 241 |
| What determines galactic evolution? (Discussion) | 245 |
| Galactic Centers | |
| Formation and evolution of galactic nuclei, black holes (Review) | 257 |
| How black holes turn cusps into cores | 267 |
| Probing the nuclear activity with supermassive black holes | 271 |
| The dynamical interaction of AGN with their galaxian environments | 275 |
| Ground-based mid infra-red observations of nearby starburst and AGN galaxies | 279 |
| Dwarf Galaxies | |
| Dwarf galaxies: Important clues to galaxy formation (Review) | 285 |
| Star formation histories of local group dwarf galaxies | 295 |
| The extended structure of the Phoenix dwarf galaxy | 301 |
| Kinematics and stellar populations of 17 dwarf early-type galaxies | 305 |
| Kinematics of diffuse elliptical galaxies | 309 |
| The dynamical structure of dwarf elliptical galaxies | 313 |
| Spectrophotometric investigations of the blue compact dwarf galaxy Mrk 35 | 317 |
| New insights into the photometric structure of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies from a deep Near-Infrared study | 321 |
| Photometric studies of very metal-deficient blue compact dwarf galaxies: the exponential ionized gas halo of I Zw 18 | 325 |
| The effect of star formation on the evolution of Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies | 329 |
| X-ray emission from dwarf galaxies: IC 2574 revisited | 333 |
| Low-mass cluster galaxies: A cornerstone of galaxy evolution | 337 |
| H[alpha] regions in FCC046 and FCC207 | 341 |
| Optical and NIR investigation of a sample of tidal dwarf candidates | 345 |
| [omega] Cen--An ultra compact dwarf galaxy? | 349 |
| Searching for an intrinsic stellar population in compact high-velocity clouds | 353 |
| Understanding dwarf galaxies as galactic building blocks (Discussion) | 357 |
| Disk Galaxies | |
| Formation and evolution of disk galaxies (Review) | 369 |
| Disk galaxy evolution: from the Milky Way to high-redshift disks (Review) | 381 |
| Local galactic evolution | 391 |
| Scaling relations of field spirals at intermediate redshift | 396 |
| X-ray, Ly[alpha] and H[alpha] emission from simulated disk galaxies | 399 |
| The origin of the correlation between the spin parameter and the baryon fraction of galactic disks | 403 |
| Tidal torques and galactic warps | 407 |
| Kinematics of disc galaxies using photometrically calibrated N-body models | 413 |
| Isolated and mildly interacting spiral galaxies: Rotation curves and metallicities | 417 |
| The constraints on dark matter distribution in the isolated spiral NGC 4414 | 421 |
| Massive disks in low surface brightness galaxies | 425 |
| The mass to light ratio and the initial mass function in galactic discs | 429 |
| The SFR and IMF of the galactic disk | 433 |
| On the evolution of the SFR in galactic disks | 437 |
| Properties of star formation in the spiral arms of barred galaxies | 441 |
| Application of the global modal approach to the spiral galaxies | 445 |
| Investigation of colour gradients in non-active and active spiral galaxies | 449 |
| Generation of warps by accretion flows | 453 |
| Comparing peanut-shaped 'bulges' to N-body simulations and orbital calculations | 459 |
| 3D global simulations of galactic magnetic fields and gas flows | 463 |
| Magnetic fields and radio polarization of barred galaxies | 467 |
| Chemical Models | |
| Galactic evolution along the hubble sequence | 473 |
| CNO evolution: Milky way, dwarf galaxies and DLAs | 477 |
| The bends in the slopes of radial abundance gradients in the disks of spiral galaxies--do they exist? | 481 |
| Chemical enrichment in the early galaxy | 485 |
| The chemical composition of the halo and evolutionary problems | 489 |
| Galaxy evolution: Inhomogeneous halo collapse | 493 |
| Inhomogeneous chemical evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies | 497 |
| Search for and study of extremely metal-deficient galaxies | 501 |
| Chemical evolution of Elliptical Galaxies and the ICM | 505 |
| The ages and metallicities of ellipticals from continuum colors | 509 |
| Gas-Phase Processes and Chemodynamical Models | |
| Galaxies as complex systems (Review) | 515 |
| Gas phase processes affecting galactic evolution (Review) | 525 |
| Star formation in a multi-phase interstellar medium | 539 |
| A comparison of chemical and chemodynamical models | 543 |
| The chemo-dynamical evolution of a disk galaxy | 547 |
| On the origin of high-eccentricity halo stars | 551 |
| Chemical and dynamical evolution of spiral galaxies | 555 |
| The origin of elliptical galaxies inferred from their metallicity gradients | 559 |
| Feedback and late star formation in elliptical galaxies | 563 |
| Chemodynamical gas flow cycles and their influence on the chemical evolution of dwarf irregular galaxies | 567 |
| A multi-phase chemo-dynamical SPH code for galaxy evolution. Testing the code | 571 |
| Star formation in a multi-phase ISM | 575 |
| Expanding shells in low and high density environments | 579 |
| Clues to starburst evolution: The tale of dense gas | 583 |
| Between simple and chemodynamical models of galaxies (Discussion) | 587 |
| Spectrum Synthesis Models | |
| Chemically consistent evolutionary synthesis | 599 |
| On the self-consistency of evolutionary synthesis models | 603 |
| Star formation histories across hubble types | 607 |
| Empirical population synthesis for 74 blue compact galaxies | 611 |
| The resolved red giant branches of E/S0 galaxies | 615 |
| From spirals to low surface brightness galaxies | 619 |
| The properties of low surface brightness galaxies | 623 |
| Photometric evolution of N-body + SPH + star formation simulations of isolated disc galaxies | 627 |
| The stellar content of a prototype double barred galaxy | 631 |
| UV and optical spectral properties in early-type galaxies | 635 |
| High resolution spectra of galaxies | 639 |
| Evolutionary synthesis modelling of young star clusters in merging galaxies | 643 |
| Dust-enshrouded super star-clusters | 647 |
| Observational Tasks | |
| New aspects for new generation telescopes (Discussion) | 653 |
| The next generation stellar population synthesis library | 663 |
| Galaxies at the detection limits of deep X-ray surveys | 667 |
| Towards a new galaxy template library for multi-colour classification | 671 |
| Spectro-morphology of galaxies | 675 |
| 3D spectroscopy of z - 1 galaxies with Gemini | 679 |
| Author Index | 683 |
