The unique role of strangeness in nuclear physics has recently attracted much attention, from both the theoretical and experimental viewpoints. This is due not only to the broad spectrum of possible hadron many-body systems with strangeness, but also to the fact that strangeness gives us an opportunity to study fundamental baryon-baryon interactions in a new perspective. Our knowledge of this subject has widened as the scope of hypernuclear experiments has expanded from strangeness exchange and the associated production reactions to hypernuclear weak decays, β decays, cascade hypernuclei, double-Λ events, electroproduction of strangeness, etc. This trend will be accelerated by the full operation of new laboratories such as TJLab, COSY, DAΦNE, JHF, MAMI, and others. Various aspects of those important and exciting topics are discussed in this book in order to get a perspective of this fast developing area of nuclear physics.

The unique role of strangeness in nuclear physics has recently attracted much attention, from both the theoretical and experimental viewpoints. This is due not only to the broad spectrum of possible hadron many-body systems with strangeness, but also to the fact that strangeness gives us an opportunity to study fundamental baryon-baryon interactions in a new perspective. Our knowledge of this subject has widened as the scope of hypernuclear experiments has expanded from strangeness exchange and the associated production reactions to hypernuclear weak decays, ? decays, cascade hypernuclei, double-? events, electroproduction of strangeness, etc. This trend will be accelerated by the full operation of new laboratories such as TJLab, COSY, DAèNE, JHF, MAMI, and others. Various aspects of those important and exciting topics are discussed in this book in order to get a perspective of this fast developing area of nuclear physics.

Spin physics is one of the most important and active areas of theoretical/experimental nuclear physics. In nuclear reactions, the observations of spin polarizations give important clues to the nuclear structures and reaction mechanism. For high energy nuclear physics, the polarized quark-parton distributions of the nucleon/nucleus are studied intensively. In the study of baryon structures and nuclear astrophysics, spin is an important observable through hadron reactions.The focus of these proceedings is on the spin-dependent phenomena in nuclear and hadronic reactions and related topics in nuclear and hadron physics. The main subjects covered are: Spin polarization phenomena in nuclear and hadronic reactions; spin-dependent excitations in nuclei and spin observables; recent development in nuclear reaction theories; spin-dependent phenomena in fundamental processes; related topics

Final state interactions in [symbol] photoproduction near threshold / Y. Oh and T.-S.H. Lee -- The Q[symbol] evolution of the GDH sum rule (on [symbol]He and the neutron) / G.D. Cates -- Detailed study of the [symbol]he nuclei through response function separations at high momentum transfer / D.W. Higinbotham -- Final state interaction in [symbol] reaction: study of finite formation time effects / H. Morita [und weitere] -- Simultaneous measurement of the two-body photodisintegration of [symbol]H and [symbol]He / G.V. O'Rielly -- Nuclear medium effects in hadron leptoproduction / N. Bianchi -- Quasifree processes from nuclei: meson photoproduction and electron scattering / L.J. Abu-Raddad and J. Piekarewicz -- Quasielastic and [symbol] excitation in electron scattering / K.S. Kim [und weitere] -- Kaon photo- and electroproduction on the deuteron with beam and recoil polarizations / K. Miyagawa [und weitere] -- Electroproduction of strange nuclei / E.V. Hungerford -- Photoproducion of the [symbol](1020) near threshold in CLAS / D.J. Tedeschi for the CLAS Collab. -- K+ photoproduction at LEPS/SPring-8 / R.G.T. Zegers [und weitere] -- Polarization observables in kaon electroproduction with CLAS at Jefferson Laboratory / D.S. Carman -- Can the scalar mesons [symbol](980) be described by K + K? / R.T. Jones -- Meson photoproduction at GRAAL / O. Bartalini [und weitere] -- Giant resonances in nuclei near and far from [beta]-stability line / H. Sagawa -- Indirect measurements of the [symbol]B reaction / T. Motobayashi -- Search for an orbital magnetic quadrupole twist mode in nuclei with electron scattering at 180° / P. von Neumann-Cosel -- Spin-isospin interaction and properties in stable and exotic nuclei / T. Otsuka [und weiteren] -- Photonuclear reactions of light nuclei and few-body problems / T. Shima [und weiteren] -- Determination of S[symbol] based on CDCC analyses for [symbol]B / K. Ogata [und weiteren] -- E2 and M1 transitions among triaxially superdeformed bands in Lu isotopes / K. Sugawara-Tanabe and K. Tanabe

Includes Annual reports for the Physics and Astronomy Departments.

Our understanding of the universe has been revolutionized by observations of the cosmic microwave background, the large-scale structure of the universe, and distant supernovae. These studies have shown that we are living in a strange universe: 96% of the present day energy density of the universe is dominated by so-called dark matter and dark energy. But we still do not know what dark matter and dark energy actually are. This book presents lectures from the 186th Course in the Enrico Fermi International School of Physics entitled New Horizons for Observational Cosmology, held in Varenna, Italy, in July 2013. Topics covered at this school included: cosmic microwave background anisotropies; galaxy clustering; weak lensing; dark energy; dark matter; inflation; modified gravity; neutrino physics; reionization; galaxy formation; and first stars. The anticipated release of Planck data at the end of 2014 will provide a more complete view of temperature anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background, and the reporting of other important results is also expected soon. These new data will undoubtedly address fundamental questions about the universe. This book prepares the ground for future work which may answer some of these exciting questions.

As the only stable baryon, the nucleon is of crucial importance in particle physics. Since the nucleon is a building block for all atomic nuclei, there is a need to analyse the its structure in order to fully understand the essential properties of all atomic nuclei. After more than forty years of research on the nucleon, both the experimental and theoretical situations have matured to a point where a synthesis of the results becomes indispensable. Here, A.W. Thomas and W. Weise present a unique report on the extensive empirical studies, theoretical foundations and the different models of the nucleon. The appendices provide an extensive summary of formulae needed in practical calculations. From the contents: electromagnetic structure of the nucleon, weak probes of nucleon structure, deep inelastic lepton scattering on the nucleon; elements of QCD, aspects of non-perturbative QCD, Chiral Symmetry and nucleon structure, models of the nucleon