This proceedings volume includes 66 papers on the latest developments in heavy ion collisions, the synthesis of new elements and nuclei far from stability, nuclear structure, physics with radioactive beams, and applications of heavy ion beams. Contents: Hard Photons as Probes of Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Reactions (R H Siemssen)Dilepton Production in Elementary Processes on the Nucleon (U Mosel)A Comprehensive Study of Fission in 24.3 MeV/Nucleon U Reactions Induced on C, Si, Ni, Au Targets (E Piasecki et al.)Coherent Rotation of Excited Dinuclear Systems (G Pappalardo et al.)Discovery of the Superheavy Elements 110 and 111-Shell Stabilization in the Deformed Shell Z = 108/N = 162 (P Armbruster)From 20Mg to the 100Sn Region: Experimental Techniques for Decay Studies of Proton Drip-Line Nuclei (E Roeckl)Measurements of Nuclear Masses and Half-Lives in the Storage Ring ESR (O Klepper et al.)R1 Beam Factory Project and Recent Studies with Radioactive Beams at RIKEN (I Tanihata)The Charge Exchange Reaction Induced by the Neutron Rich Halo Nucleus 6He (M D Cortina-Gil et al.)New Research Opportunities with a Recoil Mass Spectrometer and Radioactive Ion Beams (J H Hamilton et al.)and other papers Readership: Nuclear physicists. keywords:
