edited by J H Hamilton (Vanderbilt University, USA), W R Phillips (University of Manchester, UK), & H K Carter (Oak Ridge Associated Universities, USA)

The Second International Conference on Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nuclei continued the emphasis on fission models, fission processes, properties of neutron-rich nuclei and new directions. The responses to the conference were so extensive that 44 talks were presented in individual sessions and 35 more in two afternoons of parallel sessions. New insights and developments were discussed, including experimental and theoretical studies of ternary fission with correlated pairs with emission of a third nucleus such as helium-3, alpha particle, and beryllium-10; the structure of neutron-rich nuclei from spontaneous fission, heavy-ion-induced fission and knock-out reactions; comparisons of deep inelastic reactions and fission for production of neutron-rich nuclei; production of superheavy elements, including the discovery of element 114; experiments with radioactive beams; and proposals for new radioactive ion beam facilities.

• Structure of Elementary Matter: Cold Valleys and Their Importance in Fission, Fusion and for Superheavy Nuclei (W Greiner)
• Tunnelling Phenomena in Nuclear Physics (N Rowley)
• Investigation of Light Actinide Nuclei at Yale and Beyond (C W Beausang)
• Coexistence of Symmetric and Asymmetric Nuclear Shapes and ¹⁰Be Ternary Fission (J H Hamilton et al.)
• Heavy Clusterization in ²⁵²Cf: An Application of the U(3) Selection Rule (A Algora et al.)
• Synthesis of Superheavy Elements with Three-Dimensional Fluctuation–Dissipation Dynamical Model (T Wada et al.)
• Cold Fission Studies with Large Detector Arrays (A V Ramayya et al.)
• Shell Effects and Fission of Superheavy Nuclei at Low Excitation Energies (M G Itkis et al.)
• Experiments on the Synthesis of Superheavy Nuclei in ⁴⁸Ca-Induced Reactions (Yu Ts Oganessian)
• Superheavy Nuclei Revisited (J A Maruhn et al.)
• and other papers