Publisher's Synopsis
The publication series of Communications in Asteroseismology (CoAst) is one of the most important international journals in the field of asteroseismology. Asteroseismology is the science of variable and pulsating stars. Every six months CoAst publishes a newsletter with papers on ongoing research projects. Besides these regular issues, special issues such as conference proceedings or program manuals are published in this series. JENAM (Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting) is the largest yearly meeting of Europe's professional astronomer and was hosted in September 2008 in Vienna. The conference contained nine minisymposia, one of them was devoted to asteroseismology. This issue summarizes the latest developments in this field in the form of review and contributed articles.