This proceedings volume compiles 123 papers that were presented orally or as posters at the National Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV) Program Review Meeting, held in Denver, Colorado, on September 8-11, 1998. The purpose of this meeting was to highlight the advances made in various areas of photovoltaics by and through the NCPV during the period of December 1997 to September 1998. Topics covered ranged from research in crystalline silicon and thin-film technologies, to manufacturing of photovoltaic modules, to applications of and markets for photovoltaic products.

This book provides a thorough introduction to the phenomenology of heavy flavour physics, those working on the B-factories, LHCb, BTeV, HERA and the Tevatron. It explains how heavy quark theory could be implemented on the lattice, and discusses the status of CP-violation in the neutral kaon system.

Applications of high quality beams reach many areas of science, such as high energy and nuclear physics, condensed matter and material science, biophysics and medical science. The proceedings of the joint accelerator school discuss the current technological limit of high quality beams.