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I. Infrared and Other Sky Surveys.- DENIS: A Deep Near-Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky.- The Two Micron All Sky Survey. Survey Rationale and Initial Testing.- The Influence of Crowding on DENIS Point Source Detection Rates.- Strategy of DENIS Observations.- First Results Obtained with DENIS.- Sloan Digital Sky Survey.- The Guide Star Catalog and Related Sky Surveys.- Infrared Space Borne Experiments to Study Galactic Structure.- The Project “SPICE”. Spectrp-Photometric Infrared Celestial Explorer.- EDISON — The International Infrared Space Observatory. The Next Generation.- Classification of Astronomical Images with a Neural Network.- The Project of High Spatial Resolution near Infrared Imaging System at Beijing Observatory.- II. Low Mass Stars and Main Sequence Stars.- DENIS, 2MASS and VLM Stars.- Low Mass Stars.- The Search for Brown Dwarfs with Infrared Surveys.- Hipparcos and Red Dwarf Populations.- Sternberg WBVR Photometric Survey of Bright Stars.- Spectrophotometric Catalog of the Steinberg Astronomical Institute in the Ultraviolet, Visual and Near Infrared.- Search for New Nearby Stars with DENIS.- Artificial IJK Two-Colour Diagrams for Field Stars.- Asteroid Detection with DENIS.- III. Late Type Stars.- Short Period Miras and Galactic Structure.- Infrared Photometry of AGB Stars.- Infrared Surveys and Variables on the AGB.- AGB Stars in the Magellanic Clouds.- AGB Stars and Red Supergiants in the LMC as Seen with DENIS.- O-Rich SR and Mira Variables in DENIS.- Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Classify IRAS LRS Sepctra of Evolved Stars.- Carbon Stars in Infrared Surveys.- The Evolution from Visible to Infrared Variable AGB Stars. What Can DENIS Contribute to This Study?.- Infrared Colours of Selected Long Period Variables.- The Frequency ofCircumstellar Envelopes among TMSS Stars.- Infrared Velocities of Carbon Stars.- A Near-Infrared Survey of IRAS Sources in the South Galactic Cap.- Mira Light Curves and Mass Loss.- Strategy of Infrared Surveys for Studying Galactic Evolved Stars and their Subclasses. Contribution to the Panel Discussion.- IV. Galactic Structure.- Synthesis of Galactic Stellar Populations and Expected Constraints from Infrared Surveys.- Infrared Surveys: Some Prospects for Galactic Structure Studies Using Cepheids and Other Young Objects.- Galactic Structure from the Two Micron Galactic Survey.- A Powerful New Model for the Point Source Sky.- The Leiden/Dwingeloo Survey of Emission from Galactic HI.- Are Molecular Clouds Formed by Impact of High-Velocity Clouds?.- Current Problems in Star Formation and Infrared Surveys.- Star Formation in Taurus. Preliminary Results from 2MASS.- Search for Young Stars with IR Surveys: Regions of Massive Star Formation.- The Stellar Populations within the ? Oph Cloud Cores.- Investigation of the Be Star Phenomenon Using the DENIS Data.- Discussion Session on Star Formation, Molecular Clouds and the Interstellar Medium.- VI. Extragalactic Structure.- Near-Infrared Observations of AGN.- Groups and Clusters in the Near-Infrared.- Comparison of Large-Scale Structures and Velocities in the Local Universe.- Red Post-Starburst Galaxies.- DENIS for the Extragalactic Distance Scale. Panel Discussion on Infrared Observations of Galaxies.- LEDA. The Lyon–Meudon Extragalactic Database for the DENIS Project.- Star Formation in Starburst Galaxies from Near-IR Spectroscopy and Evolutionary Population Synthesis.- Modelling Evolution of Stellar Emission of Galaxies for the NIR Surveys.- The Nature of the Blue Distant Galaxies.