edited by Mamoru Fujiwara (Osaka University, Japan) & Tatsushi Shima (Osaka University, Japan)

This book covers the following topics: (1) meson and hadron production by real and virtual photon interaction with nucleons and nuclei; (2) astrophysical studies via photoreactions and hadron reactions; (3) new technologies for the electromagnetic probes and detector development; (4) nuclear structure studies with electromagnetic probes; (5) fundamental symmetries with electromagnetic probes and related problems.

The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:

• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

• Search for New Baryon Resonances (B Saghai & Z Li)
• Overview of Laser-Electron Photon Facility at SPring-8 (T Nakano)
• Weak Nucleon Form Factors (P A Souder)
• High Energy Approaches to Low Energy Phenomena in Astrophysics (S M Austin)
• Photo-Nuclear Reactions in the Big-Bang and Supernovae (T Kajino et al.)
• Transition Properties of Low-Lying Resonances in a Relativistic Quark Model with a Meson Cloud Effect (Y B Dong et al.)
• Weak Interaction, Giant Resonances and Nuclear Astrophysics (K Langanke & G Martínez-Pinedo)
• Electroproduction of Strange Nuclei (E V Hungerford)
• Photonuclear Reactions of Light Nuclei and Few-Body Problems (T Shima et al.)
• On Use of Quark–Hadron Duality in Photoabsorption Sum Rules (S B Gerasimov)
• Chiral Symmetry and Hadron Properties in Lattice QCD (A W Thomas)
• Photoproduction Experiments with Polarized HD Targets (S Bouchigny et al.)
• Development of a Compact Photon Detector for ANKE at COSY Julich (H Büscher et al.)
• and other papers