This book presents a comprehensive overview of high energy physics. It covers the whole range of results from the colliders and fixed-target experiments as well as the astrophysics topics related to particle physics. Also discussed are the problems of proton structure, electroweak physics, non-perturbative QCD and heavy quarks.

This meeting continues the series tradition of previous meetings by focussing on the recent changes in our understanding of the behaviour of atomic and molecular few body systems. The diversity of research areas represented at the meeting coupled to a common focal point, reveals different perspective on basic questions of interest, and exposes new conceptual approachs to the dynamics of few body problems. Special emphasis on topics such as collisional behaviour, threshold phenomena, recombination and photoionizations provides a broad overview of the field.

Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute gases is an exciting new field of interdisciplinary physics. The eight chapters in this volume introduce its theoretical and experimental foundations. The authors are lucid expositors who have also made outstanding contributions to the field. They include theorists Tony Leggett, Allan Griffin and Keith Burnett, and Nobel-Prize-winning experimentalist Bill Phillips. In addition to the introductory material, there are articles treating topics at the forefront of research, such as experimental quantum phase engineering of condensates, the ?superchemistry? of interacting atomic and molecular condensates, and atom laser theory.

This proceedings volume includes 66 papers on the latest developments in heavy ion collisions, the synthesis of new elements and nuclei far from stability, nuclear structure, physics with radioactive beams, and applications of heavy ion beams.

The XV Workshop on Nuclear Physics was devoted to the study of nucleon models, nuclear structure, nuclear reactions as well as exotic forms of nuclear matter. In particular, studies of the link between gauge theories and nuclear decay were presented. Nuclear reactions at intermediate energies, highly excited nuclear states, high spin and statistical features of the nucleus were also issues of interest which were analyzed during the Workshop. Avid researchers in this field will find this collection of papers enlightening in the analyses made and almost all-encompassing in its wide exploration of the many pertinent issues which stand at the core of nuclear physics today.

This book contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Physics Beyond the Standard Models of Particle Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics. It presents a brilliant overview of the status and future potential and trends in experimental and theoretical particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics, in the complimentary sectors of accelerator, non-accelerator and space physics.