Barred galaxies and circumnuclear activity : proceedings of the NOBEL SYMPOSIUM 98 held at Stockholm Observatory, Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, 30 November-3 December 1995

Some historical remarks on Bertil Lindblad's work on galactic dynamics.- Formation and evolution mechanisms of barred spiral galaxies.- Orbits in barred galaxies.- Secular evolution in barred galaxies.- The fate of barred galaxies in interacting and merging systems.- H i in barred spirals.- Hi Observations of a sample of barred spirals.- Hydrodynamical simulations of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365.- Evolution of galaxies along the Hubble sequence.- Rings, lenses, nuclear bars: the fundamental role of gas.- The barred galaxy NGC 1530.- A circumnuclear molecular torus in NGC 1365.- Dynamics of inner galactic disks: The striking case of M 100.- Dynamical substructures in two nearby galaxy nuclei.- The spheroidal component of Seyfert galaxies.- The pattern speed of the Galactic bulge.- The central Parsec of the Milky Way: Star formation and central dark mass.- Radio continuum and molecular gas in the Galactic Center.- The galactic center dynamics.- Observational evidence for the AGN paradigm.- Bar triggered nuclear activity and the anisotropic radiation fields of Active Galactic Nuclei.- Circumnuclear starbursts in barred galaxies.- Circumnuclear activity.- Outflows from the nearest barred galaxies.- The nuclear high excitation outflow cone in NGC 1365.- Hubble Space Telescope observations of the centers of elliptical galaxies.