CONTENTS -- Preface -- List Of Participants -- Compact Stars -- Neutron Stars and the Properties of Matter under Extreme Conditions -- Quark Deconfinement in Compact Stars and Astrophysical Implications -- Unexpected Goings-on in the Structure of a Neutron Star Crust -- Sleuthing the Isolated Compact Stars -- Phase Transitions in Neutron Stars -- Searching for Compact Objects in Supernova Remnants: Initial Results -- Formation and Evolution of Black Holes in the Galaxy -- A New Window to the Ground State of Quark Matter: Strange Quark Matter Strange Stars and Strangelets -- Properties of Neutron Stars -- Neutron Stars and Quark Stars -- Dense Matter -- Role of Strange Quark Mass in Pairing Phenomena in QCD -- Nuclear Matter and the Transition to Quark Matter in an Effective Quark Theory -- A New State of Matter at High Temperature as "Sticky Molasses" -- Mode Softening near the Critical Point within Effective Approaches to QCD -- Thermal Phase Transitions of Dense QCD -- Pseudogap in Color Superconductivity -- Aspects of High Density Effective Theory -- Model Independent Sum Rules for Strange Form Factors -- The Fermion Sign Problem and High Density Effective Theory -- Dynamical Theory of Disoriented Chiral Condensates at QCD Phase Transition -- New Results from Belle -- Topological Structure of Dense Hadronic Matter -- Chiral Symmetry of Heavy-Light-Quark Hadrons in Hot/Dense Matter -- Effective Lagrangians for QCD: Deconfinement and Chiral Symmetry Restoration -- Pion Velocity near the Chiral Phase Transition -- Effective Theory of Superfiuid Quark Matter -- Axial Anomaly in Dense QCD -- Andreev Reflection in Color Superconductivity -- Quest for Dense and Cold Nuclear Bound Systems Mediated by K- Mesons -- Stability of Strangelets with Chiral Symmetry Breaking -- Neutrinos.

Energy Release due to Antineutrino Untrapping from Hot Quark Stars -- Cooling Delay for Protoquark Stars due to Neutrino Trapping -- Cooling of Neutron Stars with Color Superconducting Quark Cores -- Neutrino Oscillation Experiments: Super-Kamiokande K2K and the JPARC Neutrino Project -- Astrophysical Weak-Interaction Processes and Nuclear Effective Field Theory -- The Minimal Cooling of Neutron Stars -- The Solar Hep Process Confronts the Terrestrial Hen Process -- Neutrino Processes in Supernovae and Neutron Stars in Their Infancy and Old Age -- The Microphysics of Neutrino Transport at Extreme Density -- Supernova Explosions and Neutrino Bursts from Supernovae.