The J. A. Swieca Summer School series is organized by the Brazilian Physics Society. The VIII school was dedicated to topics in astrophysics, chaos, nuclear structure and reactions, and to QCD in nuclear physics.
Nuclear astrophysics, T. Kajino; synthesis of superheavy elements, G. Munzenberg; chaotic scattering in heavy ion reactions, M. Saraceno; quantum chaos and many-body physics, V. Zelevinsky; relativistic heavy ion collisions, W. Greiner; neutrino astrophysics, B. Balantekin; effective field theories, G.P. Lepage; QCD in nuclear physics, E. Shuryak. (Part contents.)
