Il capitano generale lagrimo per allegrezza e nomino quel capo: Deseado, perehe l'avevamo gia gran tempo desiderato. Antonio Pigafetta Il Primo Viaggo in torno al Mondo I would like to take some poetic license in introducing this volume in a way that seems appropriate for a country, like Chile, that Iooks to the ocean. I believe it was Heisenberg who compared different times in physics with sailing a ship. He said that most of the time we keep our ships in port, or in the protection of a bay. But on a few occasions we go into the open sea, and those occasions are really the great times in theoretical physics, when everything can change. It does not seem totally unwarranted to hope that we are now entering one of those times. In that spirit, I would like to mention a wonderful book, which in English would be called something like Chile, Or a Crazy Geography.

These proceedings cover the talks delivered by experts and pioneers on various aspects of this field: theory; principles of the techniques; instrumentation; data analysis; data interpretation and state-of-the-art studies. The volume could serve as a texbook for beginners and future workers in this field as well as a reference book for experienced workers. The emphasis is on the educational aspects of the subject but information on the latest progress is also highlighted.

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