Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics IV

Spain in ESO.- Youth, Accretion, and Mass Loss at the End of the Main Sequence.- The European Extremely Large Telescope.- Gamma Ray Bursts: Lighthouses of the Universe.- The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS).- Science with GTC.- Galaxy Surveys in the Era of Large Ground-Based Observatories.- The GTC 10 m Telescope: Getting Ready for First Light.- OSIRIS: Status and Science.- EMIR, the GTC NIR Multiobject Imager-Spectrograph.- CanariCam: Instrument Status and Frontier Science.- S.E.A. prizes.- Radiative Transfer in Molecular Lines. Astrophysical Applications.- The Star Formation History of Early-type Galaxies as a Function of Environment.- Galaxies and cosmology.- Galaxy Evolution in Galaxy Clusters: Diffuse Light in the Virgo Cluster.- The Quest for Obscured AGN at Cosmological Distances: Infrared Power-Law Galaxies.- AMIGA: A New Model of Galaxy Formation and Evolution.- The Innermost Regions of Active Galactic Nuclei – From Radio to X-rays.- Gaussian Analysis of the CMB with the Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit.- Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters.- Cosmology with the Largest Scale Structures: Probing Dark Energy.- Observational Cosmology at High Redshift.- An Ha Approach to the Evolution of the Galaxy Population of the Universe.- The Galaxy and its components.- Multi-Wavelength Astronomy and the Unidentified ?-ray Sources.- The Disc and Plane of the Milky Way in the Near Infrared.- AGB Stars: Nucleosynthesis and Open Problems.- Studying Galaxy Formation and Evolution from Local Group Galaxies.- Gaia: A Major Step in the Knowledge of Our Galaxy.- Cepheus A, a Laboratory for Testing and Opening New Theories on High-mass Star Formation.- The Sun and planetary systems.- A Look into the Guts of Sunspots.- Earth-like Exoplanets. Darwin: Stellar Targets and Precursor Science.- How the Comet 9P/Tempel 1 has Behaved Before, During, and After the Deep Impact Event.- Heliospheric Energetic Particle Variability Over the Solar Cycle.- Two Years of Saturn's Exploration by the Cassini Spacecraft: Atmospheric Studies.- A New Way for Exploring Solar and Stellar Magnetic Fields.- Observatories and instrumentation.- The MAGIC Telescopes (and Beyond...).- Present and Future of Astronomy at the Observatorio del Teide.- Prospects for the William Herschel Telescope.- VO Science. The Spanish Virtual Observatory.