| In-beam spectroscopy of exotic nuclei using direct reactions | p. 3 |
| Structure of exotic nuclei around closed shells | p. 9 |
| Shell structure and correlation studied by large-scale shell-model calculations | p. 19 |
| Study of superheavy elements at RIKEN : experiments on the synthesis of element 113 in the reaction [superscript 209]Bi ([superscript 70]Zn, n)[superscript 278]113 | p. 29 |
| Dynamical symmetries from isospin to X(5) : past and future researches at the GASP array | p. 35 |
| Reaction mechanisms for structure studies of halo and weakly bound nuclei | p. 45 |
| Fusion reaction of deformed nuclei and effect of closed shell structure | p. 59 |
| Influence of chaos on the fusion enhancement by electron screening | p. 69 |
| The magnetic spectrometer PRISMA at LNL | p. 79 |
| Description and first result of the CLARA-PRISMA setup | p. 89 |
| Construction of polarized proton target and first experiment with [superscript 6]He | p. 101 |
| The gamma decay of the giant dipole resonance at finite temperature : probing shapes at very high spins | p. 109 |
| Evolution of the prompt dipole [gamma]-ray emission with incident energy in fusion reactions | p. 121 |
| Selection rules on K-quantum number in warm rotating nuclei | p. 133 |
| Low-energy nuclear reactions with unstable beams | p. 145 |
| Reaction mechanisms of weakly bound and exotic nuclei at near-barrier energies | p. 149 |
| Scattering process for the system [superscript 11]Be + [superscript 209]Bi at Coulomb barrier energies with the EXODET apparatus | p. 161 |
| Fission dynamics in systems of intermediate fissility with 8[pi]LP apparatus | p. 171 |
| Search for isospin effects on the level density of nuclei involved in the decay of [superscript 139]Eu | p. 185 |
| Isospin in reaction dynamics : the case of dissipative collisions at Fermi energies | p. 193 |
| Thermodynamical aspects in heavy ion reactions | p. 209 |
| The CHIMERA detector at LNS in Catania : recent achievements and perspectives | p. 219 |
| Disappearance of collective motion in hot nuclei | p. 229 |
| Dimuon and charmonium production in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN SPS | p. 241 |
| What is quark-gluon plasma? : recent progress | p. 251 |
| Design and performance of the ALICE experiment at LHC | p. 261 |
| Is QGP found at RHIC? | p. 275 |
| Measurement of kaonic hydrogen with DEAR at DA[Phi]NE and future perspectives | p. 285 |
| Atom-at-a-time chemistry of the transactinide element, Rutherfordium (element 104) : towards experimental verification of relativistic effects in chemical properties | p. 295 |
| The kaonic helium case | p. 307 |
| Hypernuclear physics with FINUDA now and in the future | p. 317 |
| Strange multi-baryon and kaonic atoms | p. 327 |
| Recent results on high resolution hypernuclear spectroscopy by electroproduction at Jefferson Lab, Hall A | p. 337 |
| Recent developments in nuclear astrophysics in Italy | p. 353 |
| Direct approach to explosive hydrogen burning process with CRIB | p. 361 |
| Applications of the Trojan horse method in nuclear astrophysics | p. 369 |
| Direct measurement of the astrophysical [superscript 8]Li([alpha],n)[superscript 11]B reaction | p. 379 |
| Perspectives in nuclear astrophysics | p. 389 |
| Medical applications of heavy ion accelerators | p. 401 |
| Thin UC2 target for SPES project | p. 409 |
| Applied nuclear physics for cultural heritage and environmental studies : the new LABEC Laboratory in Florence | p. 421 |
| Hydrogen analysis for geoscience by using nuclear microbeam | p. 429 |
| New lines of research with the MAGNEX large-acceptance spectrometer | p. 441 |
| Development of position sensitive Ge detector | p. 449 |
| Status of the AGATA project | p. 455 |
| Development of charged particle detectors and ancillary for gamma arrays | p. 465 |
| EXODET : a new detector array for charged particles with integrated electronics for the position read-out | p. 475 |
| Hardware and software development for fast digital processing of signals from nuclear physics detectors | p. 485 |
| DAQ system for small-middle size nuclear physics experiments : present and future | p. 495 |
| 3D-scanning of nTD-silicon detectors : preliminary results | p. 503 |
| The 3 MV tandem accelerator of the "Laboratorio dell' Acceleratore" in Naples | p. 515 |
| Experimental nuclear physics in Italy | p. 523 |
| The EXCYT project | p. 535 |
| Present status of the KEK-JAERI joint RNB project | p. 547 |
| The radioactive ion beam project SPES at LNL | p. 555 |
| Research program in RIKEN RIBF project | p. 563 |
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