Planetary and Proto-Planetary Nebulae: From IRAS to ISO: Proceedings of the Frascati Workshop 1986, Vulcano Island, September 8-12, 1986

There are two questions that we can ask ourselves in order to describe this workshop. The first question is a double question: why a conference on this subject and why a workshop? The first idea of organizing this workshop came while reading the scientific objectives of one of the instruments onboard the ISO satel­ lite (a phase A document concerning the IR camera). On going through the scientific motivations for building the instrument I realized with surprise that no mention was made of P...