The proceedings of the conference include recent results of experimental and theoretical research on the following topics: reaction dynamics, fusion-fission phenomena, neutron physics, deformed shells, nuclear spectroscopy, and exotic nuclei.
Recent results and prospects of radioactive beam experiments, A.C. Mueller; the RI beam factory at RIKEN, I. Tanihata; experimental studies of light exotic nuclei, A.A. Korsheninnikov; mass measurement of A=100 isobars in the vicinity of 100Sn using the second GANIL cyclotron, W. Mittig; stars and nuclear exotism - a brief review, M. Rayet; research with ultracold and cold neutrons at Gatchina, A.P. Serebrov; fundamental physics with neutrons at the ILL, M. Pendlebury; nuclear physics - where do we stand? - where do we go?, W. Greiner; new insights from spontaneous fission, J.H. Hamilton; spectroscopy of correlated fragments from the fission of hot nuclei performed at the FPBS 4p-array, H.-G. Ortlepp; first demon results obtained at GANIL, L. Stuttge; elastic and inelastic scattering in heavy-ion collisions around the Coulomb barrier, Y. Sugiyama; production and stability of new elements, S. Hofmann; superdeformed nuclei, B. Haas; fission experiments in inverse kinematics by use of radioactive beams, K.-H. Schmidt; nuclear structure and order-to-chaos transition, V.G. Soloviev; the PIAFE project, A. Emsallem. (Part contents).