Symposium No. 195 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), was held in Bozeman, Montana, U.S.A., during 6--10 July 1999, and hosted by Montana State University (MSU). The purpose of this Symposium was to bring together experts from different subfields of high-energy astrophysics who encounter common questions in their research. Our goal was to create a forum in which the participants could benefit from the expertise of others who have worked on similar problems in different astrophysical contexts. The proceedings of this symposium, edited by MSU professors Piet Martens, Sachiko Tsuruta, and MSU Alumnus Mark Weber have come out in June 2000. The cover page of the proceedings consists of representative images from the various astrophysical subfields:

 Upper left
The Crab nebula as observed with the High-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETG) onboard NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (Becker, Fig. 1a, page 51). 

Upper right
The young supernova remnant Cas-A as seen by the High-Resolution Imager (HRI) on the German X-ray space observatory ROSAT (Becker, Fig. 1d, page 51). 

Lower left
A visualization of astrophysical jets according to a 3D magnetohydrodynamic model of active galactic nuclei (AGN) (Uchida et al., Fig.\ 1a, page 221). 

Lower right
A cusped, flaring magnetic loop observed on the solar limb by the Soft X-ray Telescope onboard the Japanese satellite Yohkoh, which is a mission of the Japanese Institute for Space and Astronautical Science. 

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