CONTENTS -- Preface -- Committee Members -- Patronages and Sponsorships -- Friedel Sellschop's Photo -- Walter Greiner's Dinner Speech: Prologue and Poem -- Laudatio -- Group Photo -- 1. Nuclear Physics and Applied Nuclear Physics -- On the need for comprehensive studies of heavy-ion reactions -- New vistas of fission and neutron rich nuclei -- The synthesis of superheavy elements - the state of the art -- Chiral symmetry restoration in nuclei -- Pre-equilibrium reactions -- Meson production in hadronic reactions -- Meson production in p+d reactions -- Semi-empirical effective interactions for inelastic scattering derived from the Reid potential -- 2. Atomic Physics and Applied Atomic Physics -- Channeling revisited -- Radiation physics with diamonds -- Channeling of charged particles through periodically bent crystals: On the possibility of a Gamma Laser -- Novel interferometer in the X-ray region -- Scientific opportunities at third- and fourth-generation X-ray sources -- Wave packet molecular dynamics simulations of the equation of state of hydrogen and deuterium under extreme conditions -- Heavy-ions stopping in plasmas -- Heavy-ion stopping: Bohr theory revisited -- Radiation effects microscopy and charge transport simulations -- Bombardment-induced topography on semiconductor surfaces -- The activation volume for shear -- 3. Elementary Particle Physics -- Challenges and opportunities in particle physics -- Superstrings: Why Einstein would love spaghetti in fundamental physics -- Common features of particle multiplicities in heavy-ion collisions -- The influence of strong crystalline fields on QED-processes investigated using diamond crystals in y y colliders.

Using crystals to solve the nucleon 'spin crisis' TODAY...and looking for Physics beyond the Standard Model TOMORROW -- Search for strangeness at new ulrra-relativistic heavy-ion colliders -- Confinement in the Big Bang and deconfinement in the Little Bangs at CERN-SPS -- A confrontation with infinity -- Current status of quark-gluon plasma signals -- Chiral model calculations of nuclear matter and finite nuclei -- Parton showers and multijet events -- Signatures of the quark-gluon plasma: a personal overview -- 4. Neutrino Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics -- Perspectives of Nuclear Physics: From superheavies via hypermatter to antimatter and the structure of a highly correlated vacuum -- H.E.S.S. - an array of stereoscopic imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes currently under construction in Namibia -- Cosmic particle acceleration- electron vs. nuclei -- 5. Atomic and Nuclear Physics in the Study of Diamond -- Hydrogen mobility in diamond -- 6. Applications of Pure and Applied Physics in Technology -- Tumor therapy with high-energy heavy-ion beams -- IBA techniques to study Renaissance pottery techniques -- The bias in thickness calibration employing penetrating radiation -- The measurement of very old radiocarbon ages by accelerator mass spectrometry -- 7. Science Policy and Anticipations -- Choosing good science in a developing country -- Science partnerships for an African Renaissance: a framework for Ngumzo -- Policy frameworks in science and technology: Then Now and Tomorrow -- 8. Posters -- Localised solutions of the parametrically driven complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation -- TT0 and n photoproduction off the proton at GRAAL -- Muon(Ium) in nitrogen-rich and 13C diamond -- Positrons in diamond.

Study of the momentum transfer to target-like residues in heavy-ion reactions by prompt Gamma measurements -- The Schonland nuclear microprobe - an important tool in Geosciences -- Ultra-thin single crystal diamond -- Roasting Speeches at Dinner Party -- Richard Sellschop et al -- Joseph Hamilton -- Paul Kienle -- Ettore Gadioli -- Helmut Appel -- Christian Toepffer -- Closing Ceremony - The Three Devils -- For the overseas delegates -- For Friedel -- Conference Programme -- List of Participants -- Author Index.