Introduction to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions László P. Csernai University of Bergen, Norway Written for postgraduates and advanced undergraduates in physics, this clear and concise work covers a wide range of subjects from intermediate to ultra-relativistic energies, thus providing an introductory overview of heavy ion physics. The reader is introduced to essential principles in heavy ion physics through a variety of questions, with answers, of varying difficulty. This timely text is based on a series of well received lectures given by Professor L. Csernai at the University of Minnesota, and the University of Bergen, where the author is based.

The Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Intersections Between Particle and Nuclear Physics contains papers from astrophysicists and nuclear and particle physicists from 21 countries. The topics discussed cover many subjects, from relativistic heavy ion physics and high-energy tests of QCD, which require the highest energy accelerators, to low-energy tests of the electroweak standard model. The energy range extended from physics with ultracold neutrons, involving kinetic energies below 10-6 eV to cosmic ray physics, studying primaries at an energy of 1020 eV. There are many connections between topics, such as the role of strange quarks in neutron stars or as possible signal of a quark-gluon plasma. There are new results including neutrino physics from Super-Kamiokande and evidence for a glueball mixed into the scalar mesons. There are also reviews of topics such as CP violation, lepton-flavor violation, and charm physics.

CRIS is a series of topical interdisciplinary conferences held every other year in the Catania area. CRIS 2002 was devoted to cluster physics. Varied yet related subjects such as proton emission, alpha decay, exotic cluster emission, cluster structure problems in light nuclei, atomic clusters, exotic clusters of quarks such as the predicted six-quark bound state H0 and larger lumps of strange quark matter such as strange neutron stars and other astrophysical objects, were simultaneously reviewed and discussed. Topics include: clustering, exotic clustering, clusters, nuclear physics, neutron stars, strangeness, quark matter, strange matter, and cluster radioactivity.