edited by Deog Ki Hong (Pusan National University, Korea) , Chang-Hwan Lee (Pusan National University, Korea) , Hyun Kyu Lee (Hanyang University, Korea) , Dong-Pil Min (Seoul National University, Korea) , Tae-Sun Park (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea) , & Mannque Rho (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea & CNRS, France)

Space observations are currently providing a glimpse of various new states of matter possibly present in compact stars, with terrestrial laboratories producing compelling evidence in support. The aim of this book is to facilitate the exchange of ideas — both established and emergent, both theoretical and experimental — in the areas of the physics of neutrinos, dense hadronic matter and compact stars.

The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:

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

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

• CC Proceedings — Engineering & Physical Sciences

• Compact Stars:Sleuthing the Isolated Compact Stars (J J Drake)
  • Phase Transitions in Neutron Stars (N K Glendenning)
  • Formation and Evolution of Black Holes in the Galaxy (C-H Lee)
  • Neutron Stars and Quark Stars (F Weber)
• Dense Matter:
  • Role of Strange Quark Mass in Pairing Phenomena in QCD (H Abuki)
  • Aspects of High Density Effective Theory (D K Hong)
  • New Results from Belle (Y Kwon)
  • Andreev Reflection in Color Superconductivity (M Sadzikowski & M Tachibana)
• Neutrinos:
  • Cooling Delay for Protoquark Stars Due to Neutrino Trapping (J Berdermann et al.)
  • The Minimal Cooling of Neutron Stars (D Page)
  • The Solar Hep Process Confronts the Terrestrial Hen Process (T-S Park)
  • Supernova Explosions and Neutrino Bursts from Supernovae (K Sato et al.)
  • and other papers