Discussing recent developments in both theoretical and experimental Nuclear Physics this volume presents thirty three articles on: Heavy Ion Collisions, Quark Gluon Plasma, Early Universe, Nucleons, Mesons, Quarks and QCD, Neutron Stars, Nuclear Astrophysics,Exotic Nuclei, Nuclear Masses, Nuclear Structure, Deformations, Mean Fields, High Spin States, Superheavy Nuclei and Giant Resonances.

Glauber model for heavy ion interactions/ Elastic and Inelastic scattering studies with Pelletrons / Influence of Entrance Channel and Nuclear Structure on fusion-fission reactions / Li-induced Fusion studies with the I.O.P. Pelletron / New closed formula for heavy ion fusion cross-section / Fragmentation dynamics in intermediate energy heavy ion collisionss / Compression modulus: The Elusive property of Nuclear Matter / Isoscalar Giant Dipole Resonance and Nuclear Incompressibility / An effective Lagrangian approach to meson-production in proton-proton collisions / Exploring Vector Meson masses in nuclear collisions / Properties of Hot and Dense hadronic matter / Hadronic Masses in hot and dense matter / Confined Colour / Magnetic Moment of W in QCD sum rule / Cascading Partons and Quark Gluon Plasma formation / Emulsion study of Flow in Heavy Ion Collisions / QCD-Motivated Quark Stars / Electron and Neutrino Capture rates in Astrophysics / Double Beta Decay / Orientations of recoil nuclei Muon capture / Proton Rich Nuclei / Disappearance of Nuclear Maguity in Exotic Nuclei / Structure of Halo nuclei from breakup reactions / Superheavy Nuclei / Relativistic Mean Field: Origin of Pseudospin / Transition Strength Sums and Quantum Chaos in shell model states / Nuclear Partition Function in Astrophysics / Study of hexadecapole deformation in rare-earth nuclei / High Spin Spectroscopy with deformed Hatree-Fock and Angulr Momentum Projection / The Quasiparticle Bands in A = 80 region / Evening Lecture: The Micro and Macro Cosmes / Concluding Remarks

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