Proceedings of the Second International Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 1991. Among the topics: nuclear power and the detection of explosives; the physics of strange matter; dense nuclear matter; the internal composition of compact stars; and the relativistic Vlasov equation. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contains lectures and contributed papers from an August 1997 workshop aimed especially at young researchers and graduate students in nuclear physics. Invited talks encompass areas including particle interferometry, collective flow in heavy-ion collisions, phase transitions in nuclear physics, lifetime of quasiparticles in the quark-gluon plasma, and properties of hadrons in the nuclear medium. Contributed papers examine areas such as strangeness production in the meson cloud model, the chiral bag model with a soft surface, and hadronic slopes and cross-sections for vector mesons. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR