The Origins of Stars and Planets: The VLT View

From the Contents: As Eyes See Young Stars Assemle: Star and Planet Formation in the VLT Era.- Mapping the Interstellar Dust with Near-Infrared Observations: An Optimized Multi-Band Technique.- Physical Properties of Prestellar Cores.- Molecular Cloud Structure: The VLT View.- The Physical Structure of a Prestellar Core in IC 5146.- From Infall to Rotation Around Young Stellar Objects.- Mass Spectra from Turbulent Fragmentation.- From Molecular Clouds to Planets: Prospects for ALMA.- Continuum Polarization as a Tool: A Perspective for VLT and ALMA.- The Mineralogy and Magnetism of Star and Planet Formation as Revealed by Mid-Infrared Spectropolarimetry.- From the Sun to Jupiter: Evolution of Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs down to Planetary Masses.- Core collapse and the Formation of Binaries.- The Formation and Evolution of Low-Mass Binary Systems: How Will VLT(I) Help?- The Formation of Brown Dwarfs.- etc.