Table of Contents

Local Starbursts as Benchmarks for Galaxy Evolution.- Local Starbursts in a Cosmological Context.- Starbursts in the Evolving Universe: A Local Perspective.- Are There Local Analogs of Lyman Break Galaxies?.- The Disk Wolf-Rayet Population of the Nuclear Starburst Galaxy M83.- Laser Illuminates Compact Galaxies.- First Spectroscopic Results from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey.- Near-IR Super Star Clusters in Starburst and Luminous Infrared Galaxies.- High-Resolution Imaging of the SSCs in NGC 1569 and NGC 1705.- Massive Star Clusters, Feedback, and Superwinds.- 30 Doradus — A Template for “Real Starbursts”?.- The Initial Mass Function in Starburst Regions: Environmental Dependences?.- The Initial Mass Function in Starbursts.- Dynamical Models of Star Formation and the Initial Mass Function.- Red Supergiants, Mass Segregation and M/L Ratios in Young Star Clusters.- IMF Variation in M82 Super Star Clusters.- Starbursts as a Function of Wavelength.- Colourful Starbursts.- A Far-Ultraviolet View of Starburst Galaxies.- Local Starbursts: Perspectives from the Optical.- The Starburst Phenomenon from the Optical/Near-IR Perspective.- Dissecting Starburst Galaxies with Infrared Observations.- What Fraction of Stars Formed in Infrared Galaxies at High Redshift?.- Shades: The Scuba Half Degree Extragalactic Survey.- Compact Extragalactic Star Formation: Peering through the Dust at Centimeter Wavelengths.- Dust Attenuation and Star Formation in the Nearby Universe: The Ultraviolet and Far-Infrared Points of View.- Theoretical Pan-Spectral Energy Distributions of Starburst Galaxies.- Triggering and Quenching of Starbursts and the Effects of Galactic Interactions.- Merger-Induced Starbursts.- Galaxy Collisions: Modeling Star Formation in Different Environments.-Star and Cluster Formation in Extreme Environments.- The Recurrent Nature of Central Starbursts.- Efficiency of the Dynamical Mechanism.- 2D Kinematics and Mass Derivations in ULIRGs.- Internal Kinematics of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies.- Fuelling Starbursts and Nuclear Rings.- Star-Formation Rates in Relation to the Host Galaxy Properties.- Demographics and Host Galaxies of Starbursts.- Star-Forming, Recently Star-Forming, and “Red and Dead” Galaxies at 1 Z < 2.- Global Star-Formation Rates.- Star Formation Efficiencies and Star Cluster Formation.- Star Cluster Populations in Nearby Starburst Galaxies.- Young Massive Clusters in Non-Interacting Galaxies.- Nascent Starbursts in Synchrotron-Deficient Galaxies.- HST/STIS Spectroscopy of the Starburst Core of M82.- Starburst Tracers: Gas, Dust and Star Formation.- Starburst Galaxies: An Infrared Perspective.- Dusty Starbursts as a Standard Phase in Galaxy Evolution.- Is the Interstellar Gas of Starburst Galaxies Well Mixed?.- Star Clusters in M51: Connection between Molecular Gas, Stars and Dust.- Starbursts at Intermediate Redshifts and the Starburst versus AGN Paradigm.- Starbursts in Nearby Radio Galaxies.- Starbursts in Low Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei.- GALEX Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Luminous Infrared Galaxies.- A Recent Rebuilding of Most Spirals?.- Evolution of the IR Energy Density and SFH up to Z ? 1: First Results from MIPS.- Violent Star Formation and the Properties of Star-Forming Galaxies at High Redshift.- Understanding Infrared—Luminous Starbursts in Distant Galaxies.- Starbursts in the Ultra Deep Field.- Properties of Ly? and Gamma Ray Burst-Selected Starbursts at High Redshifts.- The Stellar Population of High-Z Galaxies from Medium-Resolution Spectra in the FORS Deep Field.-Star-Forming Galaxies at Z ? 2: Stellar and Dynamical Masses.- Metallicity of Star-Forming Galaxies.- New Metallicity Diagnostics for High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies.- UV Luminosity Function at Z ? 4, 3, and 2.- Massive Galaxies at Z = 2 in Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations.- K-Luminous Galaxies at Z ? 2.- Resolved Molecular Gas Emission in a QSO Host Galaxy at Z = 6.4.- Conference Summary.- Conference Summary: Starbursts and Galaxy Evolution.