Towards the second half of this decade several major telescope facilities operating in the infrared submillimeter and millimeter wave bands will become operational. These missions are expected to throw much light on our understanding of the the star formation phenomenon, which is addressed as one of the primary science goals in these wave bands. This book is the proceedings of the "Cores to Clusters" workshop held at Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto during 7 - 9 October, 2004 to discuss current and future issues in star formation physics in the light of these Next Generation Telescopes.

Well-known international contributorsTimely publication as shortly, several major telescope facilities operating in the infrared ubmillimeter and millimeter wave bands will become operational

Review Articles.- Physical Properties of Prestellar Cores.- Impulsively Triggered Star Formation.- Starless Cores.- Chemical Processes in Star Forming Regions.- Protostellar Jets: A High Angular Resolution Perspective.- Non-Isothermal Gravoturbulent Fragmentation.- The Birth of Massive Stars and Star Clusters.- Precursors of UchII Regions and the Evolution of Massive Outflows.- Observations of Accretion onto High Mass Stars.- Disks Around Massive (proto)Stars.- Embedded Clusters.- Massive Protostars and Small Protoclusters.- Pre-Main-Sequence Evolutionand Brown Dwarfs Beyond the Solar Vicinity.- Brown Dwarfs.- Contributed Poster Articles.- Revealing the Structure of Lupine Darkness: from Cores to Clusters.- Infrared Study of the Southern Galactic Star Forming Region Associated with Iras 10049-5657.- Studying Protostellar Jets through a Combined Infrared/Optical Spectral Analysis.- Preliminary Results on Newly Discovered Embedded Clusters.