CONTENTS -- Preface -- Part I: Cosmology -- New Cosmological Data and the 'Best-Fit' FRW Universe -- Measuring the Universe with the Cosmic Microwave Background -- Cosmology with Varying Constants -- Nearby Type IA Supernovae Searches: The Portuguese Experience and Plans for the Future -- Initial Conditions for Hybrid Inflation -- The Density Parameter in Scalar Field Cosmologies -- Distant Galaxy Clusters: New Detections and Follow-Up Observations in the Optical -- PSCZ vs 1.2 Jy Velocity Fields: A Spherical Harmonics Comparison -- Part II: Relativistic Astrophysics -- Matter Trapped Gravitational Waves -- Astrophysical Implications of the R-Mode Instability -- Black Holes with Toroidal, Cylindrical and Planar Horizons in Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes in General Relativity and their Properties -- Quasi-Normal Modes in Schwarzschild Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes -- Pair Creation of Particles and Black Holes in External Fields -- Defining a Test Particle's Velocity at the Schwarzschild Horizon -- Part III: Stellar and Gallactic Astrophysics -- Searching the Whole Sky for Variability -- The Solar Nuclear Region as Probed by Acoustic-Gravity Waves -- T Tauri Stars: Near Infrared Spectroscopy -- The Circumstellar Environment of Young Stellar Objects: Modelling the Dust Emission Using ISO and Ground-Based Observations -- Helium-to-Metal Enrichment Ratio: Determinations on the Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram after Hipparcos -- High-Resolution Modelling of the Disk-Halo Interaction -- Large Scale Structure and Cosmic Rays Revisited -- The Contribution of Stellar Light in BL Lac Type Objects -- Part IV: Planetary Astrophysics -- Galileo/Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer Data from Jupiter: Where is the Water Vapor? -- Photometry of Centaurs 1997 CU26 and 1999 UG5 -- Part V: Public Lectures.

Gamma Ray Bursts - The Most Energetic Machines in the Universe -- The Physics of the Little Bang -- List of Participants.