CONTENTS -- Preface -- Mituo Taketani - In Memoriam -- Invited Talks -- First Physics Results from STAR -- Was a New Phase of Nuclear Matter Observed at CERN SPS . . . ? -- The Origin of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays -- Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: Current Data and Propagation Scenarios -- Imprints of Nonextensivity in Multiparticle Production -- Relics of the Cosmological Quark-Hadron Phase Transition -- Hadronic Chiral Mean-Field Models at Extreme Temperatures and Densities -- Are High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions Similar to a Little Bang or Just a Very Nice Firework? -- Hard Thermal Loops and QCD Thermodynamics -- Optimized Perturbation Theory: Finite Temperature Applications -- Potential Gravitational Wave Sources and Laser Beam Interferometers -- Event-by-Event Analysis of Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics -- Hadronic Form Factors from QCD Sum Rules -- Quarkonium Production in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions -- Charmonium-Hadron Cross Section in Nonperturbative QCD Models -- Remark on the Second Principle of Thermodynamics -- Light Front Nuclear Theory and the HERMES Effect -- Nuclear Scattering at Very High Energies -- Current Status of Quark Gluon Plasma Signals -- The Stange Quark-Gluon Plasma -- Screening Effects in the Q2 Logarithmic Slope of F2 -- Charm Meson Interactions in Hadronic Matter -- Contributed Papers -- Dependence of the Forward Neutral Energy En on Transverse Energy ET in Relativistic Heavy Ions Collisions -- Effective Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction in the RPA -- B and D Meson Coupling Constant and Form Factor Calculations from QCD Sum Rules -- Quantum Contributions for the Temporal Evolution of Nonhomogeneous Configurations of the AO4 Model -- QCD Sum Rules for Heavy A Semileptonic Decays.

Nonperturbative Quantum Field Methods in Bose Einstein ondensates -- Asymmetries in Heavy Meson Production in the Meson Cloud Model Scenario -- Crossing Symmetry Violation in Unitarity Corrected ChPT Pion-Pion Amplitude -- Nuclear Matter Properties Determined by Relativistic Mean Field Model with o-w Coupling -- The Relativistic Quasi-Particle Random Phase Approximation -- A Comparison between the Relativistic BCS and Hartree-Bogoliubov Approximations in Nuclear Ground States -- Chiral Phase Transition in a Covariant Nonlocal NJL Model -- High Density Effects in eA Processes -- Quasi-Deuteron Pairing and Isospin Asymmetry -- Einstein Equations and Fermion Degrees of Freedom -- Hadronic Model Independence of the Hadron-QGP Phase Transition at Very Low Density -- Quark Degrees of Freedom in Compact Stars -- Finite Temperature Nucleon Mass in QMC Model -- The Fuzzy Bag Model Revisited -- Neutron Star Properties in the Relativistic Mean Field Theory -- Relativistic Description of Asymmetric Nuclear Matter in a o-w-s-p Model -- Simplifying Relativistic Density Limits for Nuclear Surface Properties in Walecka Model -- Hyperons and Heavy Baryons Decays in the Light-Front Model -- Neutron Stars in Nonlinear Coupling Models -- Four-Wedge Product for Relativistic Treatment in Quantum Mechanics -- Multiplicity of Pions from a Heated Interacting Gas -- Scientific Program -- List of Participants.