Contents: Basic Concepts and Consequences of Stochastic Vacuum Model (H G Dosch)Variational Approximations for Correlation Functions in Quantum Field Theories (C Martin)SU(2) Gauge Theory in Covariant (Maximal) Abelian Gauges (M Schaden)The Vacuum Wave Function in Supersymmetric Matrix Theory (C M Sommerfield)HERA Results on Elastic Hadronic and Sub-Hadronic Diffraction (G Knies)Deriving Effective Transport Equations for Non-Abelian Plasmas (D F Litim)Aspects of Non-Commutativity in ADS/CFT (A Jevicki)Thermal Field Theory in Equilibrium (J O Andersen)Puzzling Aspects of Hot Quantum Fields (T Grandou)DIS Results from HERA (C M Ginsburg)Electroproduction of Vector Mesons (T Teubner)New Developments in Cosmology (J W Moffat)Heavy-Light Physics from Lattice NRQCD (T Onogi)Non-Relativistic Effective Theory for Perturbative Heavy Quark-Antiquark Systems (A H Hoang)The Spin Dependence of Swift Proton Collisions (N H Buttimore)Numerical Investigation of Domain-Wall QCD on CP-PACS (S Aoki)When is It Possible to Use Perturbation Technique in Field Theory? (T N Truong)and other papers Readership: Researchers in high energy physics. Keywords:

This is a collection of review articles and more specialized papers on the main issues of early universe physics. Both theoretical and experimental fields of research are dealt with.

Black holes exist in galactic nuclei and in some X-ray binaries found in our own galaxy and the large Magellanic Cloud. This volume focuses on astrophysical high-energy emission processes around black holes, and the development of theoretical frameworks for interesting observational results.

Chiral Dynamics 2006 is the 5th International Workshop which examines the implications and the development of an approximate low-energy solution to the QCD Lagrangian based upon Chiral Symmetry. Advances in theory and experiment are presented in 20 plenary session papers along with more than one-hundred papers, including summaries, from the three working groups.

The study of N∗s can provide us with critical insights into the nature of QCD in the confinement domain. The keys to progress in this domain are the identification of its important degrees of freedom and the effective forces between them. The nucleon is the simplest system in which the nonabelian character of QCD is manifest. There are Nc quarks in a baryon because there are Nc colors, and as a consequence Gell-Mann and Zweig were forced to introduce the quarks in order to describe the octet and decuplet baryons.This volume gives a status report on the recent experimental and theoretical results in the field of nucleon resonance physics. A wealth of new high precision data was presented from facilities around the world, such as BES, BNL, ELSA, GRAAL, JLab, MAMI, MIT/Bates, SPring8, and Yerevan. Particular emphasis was laid on polarization degrees of freedom and large acceptance detectors as precision tools for studying small but important transition amplitudes, and the helicity (spin) structure of the nucleon. There were new results describing the nucleon resonance structure on the basis of quantum chromodynamics, either directly in terms of quarks and gluons by means of lattice gauge theory, or in terms of hadrons in the framework of chiral field theories. A status report on duality showed the surprising connections between the physics of the low energy nucleon resonance region and the realm of quark structure functions in deep inelastic scattering. Finally, this volume contains a summary report of the BRAG workshop, devoted to the analysis of baryon resonances.

During the week of 3-8 June 1996, approximately 83 theoretical (and 2 experimental) physicists interested in the current problems of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) gathered at the American University of Paris, France, to present and discuss a total of 59 papers on Collisions, Confinement, and Chaos in QCD. Each of these three subfields filled at least two half-day sessions; and another four half-day sessions were devoted to miscellaneous and interesting papers on Quantum Field Theory (QFT), and especially on the proper construction of high-energy scattering amplitudes.

The proceedings of the Lake Louise Winter Institute for 1998 deal with strong interactions. This includes the jet physics and fragmentation functions as needed in high energy collider physics, deep inelastic scattering to study the structure functions of nucleons, and finally physics with the production and hadronization of quark-gluon plasma at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Both the theoretical developments and experimental data were presented with the intent of establishing their relationship and finding new directions of study.