Preface IAU Symposium 192, the first IAU sponsored Symposium in Africa, was held at the Arthur's Seat Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, from 7 to 11 September 1998. The meeting was attended by 81 astronomers from 23 countries. The papers presented fell into four main categories: several major introductory reviews; a dozen more specialised reviews or invited papers; 21 contributed papers and 39 posters. There were also two general discussion sessions of about an hour's duration. One very

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... outcome of the relatively small number of attendees was that the programme was not too crowded and people had plenty of opportunity to interact with each other.