The proceedings of this conference should be of interest to nuclear physicists (researchers, university and college professors, graduate and post-graduate students). FINUSTAR 3 covered a wide spectrum of research activities in nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics and nuclear reactions that due to common instrumentation and research facilities have been overlapping strongly over the last years. The topics in nuclear structure, astrophysics and reactions, experimental and theoretical, covered by FINUSTAR 3 are as follows: Nuclear structure at the extremes Collective phenomena and phase transitions in nuclei Exotic excitations Synthesis and structure of the heaviest elements Nuclear masses and ground state properties Ab-initio calculations and the shell model Mean field theories, cluster models and molecular dynamics Scattering and reaction dynamics at low and intermediate energies Nuclear reactions off stability and indirect methods Neutrinos in nuclear astrophysics and astro-particle physics Nuclear astrophysics (Big-Bang, s-, r- and p-process & nuclide production) Radioactive and exotic relativistic beams Facilities and instrumentation for the future

th This workshop was the 15 in a series that addresses the subject of the dynamics of nuclear reactions. These workshops are dedicated to the concept that bringing together scientists from diverse areas of nuclear reactions promotes the vibrant exchange of ideas. This workshop hosted presentations from experimentalists and theorists, intermediate energy to ultrarelativistic energies, and final results to recent speculations. Many of these scientists would not normally be exposed to the work done in other subfields. Thus the Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics plays a unique role in information exchange and the stimulation of new ides. The field of nuclear dynamics has a bright future. New accelerators are being planned and completed around the world. New detectors are being constructed. New models and theories are being developed to describe these phenomena. The Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics will continue to promote this lively and compelling field of research. WOLFGANG BAUER AND GARY D. WESTFALL v Previous Workshops The following table contains a list of the dates and locations of the previous Winter Workshops on Nuclear Dynamics as well as the members of the organizing committees. The chairpersons of the conferences are underlined.