The topics covered during the conference on which this book is based include: space plasma mechanisms for particle acceleration, nonthermal emission in cosmic plasma, magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in solar, interstellar, and other cosmic objects.

The lectures were presented by Professor Mark Birkinshaw of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University of Bristol; Dr Anthony Peratt, Los Alamos National Laboratory Scientific Advisor to the United States Department of Energy; Dr Dieter Biskamp of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany; Professor Donald Melrose, Director, Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Sydney, Australia; Professor Abraham Chian of the National Institute for Space Research, Brazil; and Professor Nelson Fiedler-Ferrara of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. As summarized by Professor Reuven Opher, Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, University of Sao Paulo, the advanced or interested student of space and astrophysical plasmas will find reference to nearly all modern aspects in the field of Plasma Astrophysics and Cosmology in the presented lectures.

Instabilities in Astrophysical Jets
M. Birkinshaw. Advances in Numerical Modeling of Astrophysical and Space Plasmas
A.L. Peratt. Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas
D. Biskamp. Particle Acceleration and Nonthermal Radiation in Space Plasmas
D.B. Melrose. Nonlinear Wave-Wave Interactions in Astrophysical and Space Plasmas
A.C.-L. Chian.