Refereed review chapters presented in early form at a conference held at the University of California, Santa Barbara in July 1998.
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Compressible MHD Turbulence: Implications for Molecular Cloud and Star Formation / E. Vazquez-Semadeni / [et al.] / T. Passot / E. C. Ostriker -- Chemical Evolution of Protostellar Matter / [et al.] / E. A. Bergin / E. F. van Dishoeck / W. D. Langer -- From Prestellar Cores to Protostars: The Initial Conditions of Star Formation / M. Barsony / D. Ward-Thompson / P. Andre -- Structure and Evolution of Molecular Clouds: From Clumps to Cores to the IMF / L. Blitz / C. F. McKee / J. P. Williams -- Stellar Initial Mass Function: Constraints from Young Clusters, and Theoretical Perspectives / [et al.] / L. A. Hillenbrand / F. C. Adams / M. R. Meyer -- Formation of Stellar Clusters / C. J. Clarke / I. A. Bonnell / L. A. Hillenbrand -- Observations and Theory of Star Cluster Formation / [et al.] / R. E. Pudritz / B. G. Elmegreen / Y. Efremov -- Observations of Infall in Star-Forming Regions / P. C. Myers / N. J. Evans II / N. Ohashi -- Polarized Light from Star-Forming Regions / R. L. Akeson / A. A. Goodman / D. A. Weintraub -- Low-Mass Stellar Population of the Orion OB1 Association, and Implications for the Formation of Low-Mass Stars / [et al.] / F. M. Walter / J. M. Alcala / R. Neuhauser -- Hot Molecular Cores and the Earliest Phases of High-Mass Star Formation / [et al.] / E. Churchwell / R. Cesaroni / S. Kurtz -- Formation of Massive Stars / F. Palla / S. W. Stahler / P. T. P. Ho -- Structure and Evolution of Envelopes and Disks in Young Stellar Systems / L. G. Mundy / L. W. Looney / W. J. Welch -- Evolution of Disk Accretion / N. Calvet / L. Hartmann / S. E. Strom -- Disk Dispersal Around Young Stars / D. J. Hollenbach / H. W. Yorke / D. Johnstone -- Effects of Energetic Radiation in Young Stellar Objects / A. E. Glassgold / E. D. Feigelson / T. Montmerle -- Spectroscopy of Inner Protoplanetary Disks and the Star-Disk Interface / J. R. Najita / S. Edwards / G. Basri / [et al.] -- High-Resolution Optical and Near-Infrared Imaging of Young Circumstellar Disks / M. J. McCaughrean / K. R. Stapelfeldt / L. M. Close -- Subarcsecond Millimeter and Submillimeter Observations of Circumstellar Disks / D. J. Wilner / O. P. Lay -- Dust Properties and Assembly of Large Particles in Protoplanetary Disks / S. V. W. Beckwith / T. Henning / Y. Nakagawa -- Properties and Evolution of Disks Around Pre-Main-Sequence Stars of Intermediate Mass / A. Natta / V. P. Grinin / V. Mannings -- Transport Processes in Protostellar Disks / J. M. Stone / C. F. Gammie / S. A. Balbus / [et al.] -- Infalling Planetesimals in Pre-Main-Sequence Stellar Systems / C. A. Grady / M. L. Sitko / R. W. Russell / [et al.] -- Planetary Material Around Main-Sequence Stars / A.-M. Lagrange / D. E. Backman / P. Artymowicz -- Multiple Fragmentation of Protostars / P. Bodenheimer / A. Burkert / R. I. Klein / [et al.] -- Young Binary Stars and Associated Disks / R. D. Mathieu / A. M. Ghez / E. L. N. Jensen / [et al.] -- Interactions of Young Binaries with Disks / S. H. Lubow / P. Artymowicz -- Disk Winds and the Accretion-Outflow Connection / A. Konigl / R. E. Pudritz -- X-Winds: Theory and Observations / F. H. Shu / J. R. Najita / H. Shang / [et al.] -- Collimation and Propagation of Stellar Jets / J. Eisloffel / R. Mundt / T. P. Ray / [et al.] -- Shock Structures and Momentum Transfer in Herbig-Haro Jets / P. Hartigan / J. Bally / B. Reipurth / [et al.] -- Molecular Outflows from Young Stellar Objects / J. S. Richer / D. S. Shepherd / S. Cabrit / [et al.] -- FU Orionis Phenomenon and Solar Nebula Material / K. R. Bell / P. M. Cassen / J. T. Wasson / [et al.] -- Formation of Chondrules and CAIs: Theory vs. Observation / R. H. Jones / T. Lee / H. C. Connolly, Jr. / [et al.] -- Extinct Radionuclides and the Origin of the Solar System / J. N. Goswami / H. A. T. Vanhala -- Timescales of Accretion and Differentiation in the Early Solar System: The Meteoritic Evidence / M. Wadhwa / S. S. Russell -- Meteoritical and Astrophysical Constraints on the Oxidation State of the Solar Nebula / A. N. Krot / B. Fegley, Jr. / K. Lodders / [et al.] -- Outer Solar System: Chemical Constraints at Low Temperatures on Planet Formation / J. I. Lunine / T. C. Owen / R. H. Brown -- Giant Planet Formation / G. Wuchterl / T. Guillot / J. J. Lissauer -- Orbital Evolution and Planet-Star Tidal Interaction / D. N. C. Lin / J. C. B. Papaloizou / C. Terquem / [et al.] -- Disk-Planet Interactions and the Formation of Planetary Systems / W. R. Ward / J. M. Hahn -- Comets: A Link Between Interstellar and Nebular Chemistry / W. M. Irvine / F. P. Schloerb / J. Crovisier / [et al.] -- Physical Nature of the Kuiper Belt / D. C. Jewitt / J. X. Luu -- Dynamics of the Kuiper Belt / R. Malhotra / M. J. Duncan / H. F. Levison -- Formation and Collisional Evolution of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt / P. Farinella / D. R. Davis / S. A. Stern -- Extrasolar Planets Around Main-Sequence Stars / G. W. Marcy / W. D. Cochran / M. Mayor -- Brown Dwarfs / B. R. Oppenheimer / S. R. Kulkarni / J. R. Stauffer -- New Ideas in the Theory of Extrasolar Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs / A. Burrows / W. B. Hubbard / J. I. Lunine / [et al.] -- Planetary Habitability and the Origins of Life / C. F. Chyba / D. P. Whitmire / R. Reynolds.