The Local Bubble and Beyond

Lyman Spitzer 1914 - 1997.- Introductory lecture: The local and general interstellar medium.- Observations of the local interstellar cloud.- The intrinsic properties of the local interstellar medium.- A thermal pressure inside the local bubble, as revealed by CI fine-structure excitation.- Ultra-high resolution Ca II observations of the LISM.- EURD: An extreme ultraviolet spectrograph to probe the hot interstellar medium.- New insights on the local ISM from EUV observations.- Spectral observations of the diffuse FUV background with DUVE (the diffuse UV experiment).- The thermal pressure of the interstellar medium derived from cloud shadows in the extreme ultraviolet.- The structure of the local hot bubble toward l = 165°, b = 0° using IUE and ROSAT data.- The interstellar and circumstellar environment of white dwarfs.- D/H-ratio: Observations with ORFEUS II.- The diffuse extreme ultraviolet background.- The soft X-ray background spectrum from DXS.- GRADES: A new instrument for spectroscopy of the local hot gas.- Planned observations of hot gas in the LISM.- Interstellar C IV and Si IV in the direction of loop I.- A new view of the LHB and 1/4 keV X-ray halo.- On the zero-level of the soft X-ray background.- ISOPHOT observations of a cold filament in the local hot bubble.- Modeling the local bubble.- Modeling the local bubble using multiple supernova remnants.- Thin layer approximation in 3-D.- Interaction of interstellar shocks with dense obstacles: Formation of "bullets".- Magnetorotational mechanism: 2D simulation.- High-resolution optical observations of diffuse clouds.- The line of sight of ? canis majoris: Depletion and extent of the local cloud.- Neutral clouds within the local x-ray plasma.- The evaporation of nearby clouds and the soft X-ray background.- Diffuse ionized gas in the ? CMa tunnel.- Energetic particles in the local bubble.- Low energy cosmic rays emitted by the orion complex into the local medium.- Structure within the local bubble: Properties of individual clouds.- Kinematical structure of the local interstellar medium.- Radio, millimeter and infrared observations of the local hot bubble and its environment.- Study of the LISM using pulsar scintillation.- Interstellar scintillation of radio sources as a probe for investigations of the local interstellar medium.- Remarkable details in the local bubble's HI distribution.- Pulsars and bubble dynamics.- The magnetic field near the local bubble.- The local magnetic field in the milky way.- Imaging polarimetry of nearby molecular clouds.- Distribution and space density of soft X-ray emitting polars in the solar neighbourhood.- Small scale structure in nearby molecular gas.- Orfeus-I observations of molecular hydrogen in the galactic disk.- Physical association between the southern coalsack and chamaeleon-musca dark clouds.- The local bubble, local fluff, and heliosphere.- Measurements of the size and pressure of the local bubble towards eridanus.- Mapping cool gas in the ISM with ROSAT.- Interaction of the local bubble with its environment.- Bubbles in collision: Hydrodynamical models.- The volume filling factor of the WIM.- The influence of the local bubble on the ionization of the local interstellar cloud.- Modeling the galactic 3/4 keV X-ray background.- Tracing small-scale fluctuations in the soft X-ray background.- Intensity variations of the soft X-ray background: the boundary structure of the local hot bubble at low galactic latitudes.- Small-scale 1/4keV fluctuations due to the local hot bubble.- Fluctuations in the diffuse soft X-ray background; probably of galactic halo origin.- The radiation transfer of soft X-rays.- Equilibrium ionization and non-equilibrium ionization plasma models.- Infrared emission from interstellar dust in the local interstellar medium.- Cirrus as a probe for the galactic bubble bath.- A limit on galactic extinction not correlated with far IR emission.- Dust in hot environments: giant dusty galactic halos.- In situ measurements of interstellar dust.- Dust composition in the low density medium around spica.- 26Al in the local interstellar medium.- 26Al radioactivity in the galaxy.- Evolution of evolution of superbubbles.- Gravitational fragmentation in expanding shells.- Star formation in expanding shells: When and where.- X-ray emission from G359.1-0.5.- Origin and evolution of the cepheus bubble.- ASCA SIS X-ray observations of the wind blown bubble NGC 6888.- New measurements of the 4He abundance in galactic HII regions.- Ultraviolet absorption line studies of halo gas.- Simulations of halo supernova remnants.- Optical studies of a local filament toward the magellanic clouds and a local IVC region.- The role of magnetic reconnection in the interaction of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disk.- High-velocity clouds and their soft X-ray emission.- The high-velocity clouds: Galactic or extragalactic?.- The galactic X-ray halo.- The galactic halo in hydrostatic equilibrium.- The galactic Hi halo.- The galactic fountain.- 3D hydrodynamical simulations of a galactic fountain.- Cloud formation in a Galactic fountain resulting from Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.- The hot galactic corona and the soft X-ray background.- A soft X-ray halo of the LMC?.- The ORFEUS far ultraviolet spectrum of the LMC binary star HDE 269546.- The HI supergiant shells in the Large Magellanic cloud.- Diffuse ionized gas in halos of spiral galaxies.- Magnetic reconnection and extraplanar diffuse ionized gas.- Turbulent heating in the galactic diffuse ionized gas.- ROSAT observations of NGC 4258.- A ring of X-rays from the Cartwheel galaxy.- Radio and polarization properties in the disk and halo of edge-on spirals.- Superbubbles in dwarf galaxies: blown out or blown away?.- The Local Bubble and Beyond: Summary.- Workshop for continued discussion of the Local Bubble.