Planetary Systems: Formation, Evolution, and Detection Proceedings of the First International Conference, Held in Pasadena, California on December

Are there other planetary systems like ours? Other planets like ours? Is there life elsewhere in the Universe? So asks Dr. Lew Allen Jr. in the foreword. In December of 1992, theorists, observers, and instrument builders gathered at the California Institute of Technology to discuss the search for answers to these questions.

Bernard F. Burke is William A. M. Burden Professor of Astrophysics, Emeritus in the Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the co-discoverer of radio noise from Jupiter, and he was later involved in the development of very-long-baseline interferometry. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Leiden and the University of Manchester, is a member of the National Academy of Science, and is on the governing board of the National Science Foundation.

Rahe, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA.