I. Infrared and Other Sky Surveys -- DENIS: A Deep Near-Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky -- The Two Micron All Sky Survey. Survey Rationale and Initial Testing -- The Influence of Crowding on DENIS Point Source Detection Rates -- Strategy of DENIS Observations -- First Results Obtained with DENIS -- Sloan Digital Sky Survey -- The Guide Star Catalog and Related Sky Surveys -- Infrared Space Borne Experiments to Study Galactic Structure -- The Project "SPICE". Spectrp-Photometric Infrared Celestial Explorer -- EDISON - The International Infrared Space Observatory. The Next Generation -- Classification of Astronomical Images with a Neural Network -- The Project of High Spatial Resolution near Infrared Imaging System at Beijing Observatory -- II. Low Mass Stars and Main Sequence Stars -- DENIS, 2MASS and VLM Stars -- Low Mass Stars -- The Search for Brown Dwarfs with Infrared Surveys -- Hipparcos and Red Dwarf Populations -- Sternberg WBVR Photometric Survey of Bright Stars -- Spectrophotometric Catalog of the Steinberg Astronomical Institute in the Ultraviolet, Visual and Near Infrared -- Search for New Nearby Stars with DENIS -- Artificial IJK Two-Colour Diagrams for Field Stars -- Asteroid Detection with DENIS -- III. Late Type Stars -- Short Period Miras and Galactic Structure -- Infrared Photometry of AGB Stars -- Infrared Surveys and Variables on the AGB -- AGB Stars in the Magellanic Clouds -- AGB Stars and Red Supergiants in the LMC as Seen with DENIS -- O-Rich SR and Mira Variables in DENIS -- Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Classify IRAS LRS Sepctra of Evolved Stars -- Carbon Stars in Infrared Surveys -- The Evolution from Visible to Infrared Variable AGB Stars. What Can DENIS Contribute to This Study? -- Infrared Colours of Selected Long Period Variables -- The Frequency of Circumstellar Envelopes among TMSS Stars -- Infrared Velocities of Carbon Stars -- A Near-Infrared Survey of IRAS Sources in the South Galactic Cap -- Mira Light Curves and Mass Loss -- Strategy of Infrared Surveys for Studying Galactic Evolved Stars and their Subclasses. Contribution to the Panel Discussion -- IV. Galactic Structure -- Synthesis of Galactic Stellar Populations and Expected Constraints from Infrared Surveys -- Infrared Surveys: Some Prospects for Galactic Structure Studies Using Cepheids and Other Young Objects -- Galactic Structure from the Two Micron Galactic Survey -- A Powerful New Model for the Point Source Sky -- The Leiden/Dwingeloo Survey of Emission from Galactic HI -- Are Molecular Clouds Formed by Impact of High-Velocity Clouds? -- Current Problems in Star Formation and Infrared Surveys -- Star Formation in Taurus. Preliminary Results from 2MASS -- Search for Young Stars with IR Surveys: Regions of Massive Star Formation -- The Stellar Populations within the ? Oph Cloud Cores -- Investigation of the Be Star Phenomenon Using the DENIS Data -- Discussion Session on Star Formation, Molecular Clouds and the Interstellar Medium -- VI. Extragalactic Structure -- Near-Infrared Observations of AGN -- Groups and Clusters in the Near-Infrared -- Comparison of Large-Scale Structures and Velocities in the Local Universe -- Red Post-Starburst Galaxies -- DENIS for the Extragalactic Distance Scale. Panel Discussion on Infrared Observations of Galaxies -- LEDA. The Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database for the DENIS Project -- Star Formation in Starburst Galaxies from Near-IR Spectroscopy and Evolutionary Population Synthesis -- Modelling Evolution of Stellar Emission of Galaxies for the NIR Surveys -- The Nature of the Blue Distant Galaxies.