Acknowledgements
I would first like to thank the members of our group in Bern who have worked with
me, over the past 15 years or so, on many of the aspects discussed. They are Ivano
Bertini, Yann Brouet, Jo Ann Egger, Ramy El-Maarry, Clement Feller, Susanne
Finklenburg, Selina-Barbara Gerig, Antonio Gracia Berná, Clemence Herny, Tra-Mi
Ho, Bernhard Jost, Ying (Tracy) Liao, Raphael Marschall, Olga Pinzon, Olivier
Poch, Antoine Pommerol, Michael von Gunten, and Zuriñe Yoldi. It will be apparent
that there are many original diagrams in the text. This group has made a major
contribution to these diagrams. Most have been financed through the grants from the
Swiss National Science Foundation and National Centre for Competence in
Research, PlanetS. Many others in Bern have also supported this work in some
way, but I would like to mention Martin Rubin, Kathrin Altwegg, Andre Bieler,
Helen Tzou, Peter Wurz, Andre Galli, Axel Murk, Martin Jutzi, Willy Benz,
Christoph Mordasini, Yann Alibert, Simon Grimm, and Tina Rothenbühler for
specific help.
We received a Horizon 2020 grant from the European Commission for a project
called MiARD. The interaction with the groups included in MiARD has been
extremely helpful. There were 40 or so persons involved in the project, but I
would like to thank in particular the institutional leadership of Ekkehard Kührt,
Laurent Jorda, Ian Wright, Paul Hartogh, Kokou Dadzie, James Whitby, and Rafael
Rodrigo. It is perhaps a little unfair to single out others in the MiARD team, but I
must express my appreciation for contributions from Chariton Christou, Olivier
Groussin, Stubbe Hviid, David Kappel, Joerg Knollenberg, David Marshall, Stefano
Mottola, Frank Preusker, Ladi Rezac, Frank Scholten, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, and
John Zarnecki.
I have had many discussions (sometimes only brief within a workshop context)
which have helped formulate approaches to the subjects addressed herein. I would
therefore like to thank, in no particular order, Gerhard Schwehm, Matt Taylor, Horst
Uwe Keller, Jong-Shinn Wu, Björn Davidsson, Vladimir Zakharov, Valentin Bickel,
Colin Snodgrass, Carsten Güttler, Bastian Gundlach, Jürgen Blum, Yuri Skorov,
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I would first like to thank the members of our group in Bern who have worked with
me, over the past 15 years or so, on many of the aspects discussed. They are Ivano
Bertini, Yann Brouet, Jo Ann Egger, Ramy El-Maarry, Clement Feller, Susanne
Finklenburg, Selina-Barbara Gerig, Antonio Gracia Berná, Clemence Herny, Tra-Mi
Ho, Bernhard Jost, Ying (Tracy) Liao, Raphael Marschall, Olga Pinzon, Olivier
Poch, Antoine Pommerol, Michael von Gunten, and Zuriñe Yoldi. It will be apparent
that there are many original diagrams in the text. This group has made a major
contribution to these diagrams. Most have been financed through the grants from the
Swiss National Science Foundation and National Centre for Competence in
Research, PlanetS. Many others in Bern have also supported this work in some
way, but I would like to mention Martin Rubin, Kathrin Altwegg, Andre Bieler,
Helen Tzou, Peter Wurz, Andre Galli, Axel Murk, Martin Jutzi, Willy Benz,
Christoph Mordasini, Yann Alibert, Simon Grimm, and Tina Rothenbühler for
specific help.
We received a Horizon 2020 grant from the European Commission for a project
called MiARD. The interaction with the groups included in MiARD has been
extremely helpful. There were 40 or so persons involved in the project, but I
would like to thank in particular the institutional leadership of Ekkehard Kührt,
Laurent Jorda, Ian Wright, Paul Hartogh, Kokou Dadzie, James Whitby, and Rafael
Rodrigo. It is perhaps a little unfair to single out others in the MiARD team, but I
must express my appreciation for contributions from Chariton Christou, Olivier
Groussin, Stubbe Hviid, David Kappel, Joerg Knollenberg, David Marshall, Stefano
Mottola, Frank Preusker, Ladi Rezac, Frank Scholten, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, and
John Zarnecki.
I have had many discussions (sometimes only brief within a workshop context)
which have helped formulate approaches to the subjects addressed herein. I would
therefore like to thank, in no particular order, Gerhard Schwehm, Matt Taylor, Horst
Uwe Keller, Jong-Shinn Wu, Björn Davidsson, Vladimir Zakharov, Valentin Bickel,
Colin Snodgrass, Carsten Güttler, Bastian Gundlach, Jürgen Blum, Yuri Skorov,
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