edited by Aldo Covello (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)

Key Topics in Nuclear Structure is the eighth in a well established series of conferences and is devoted to the discussion of significant topics in nuclear structure. Both experimental and theoretical issues at the forefront of current research on the subject are covered by leading physicists. In particular, on the experimental side the state of the art and the envisaged developments in the most important laboratories, where rare isotope beams are available, are reviewed in detail. On the theoretical side, the various approaches to a fundamental theory of nuclear structure starting from the nucleon–nucleon interaction are discussed, ranging from the few-body systems, where ab initio calculations are possible, to the complex nuclei, where the shell model plays a key role.

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

• Radioactive Beams at TRIUMF (A C Shotter)
• Experiments with Radioactive Ion Beams at ATLAS — Present Status and Future Plans (K E Rehm)
• Prospects with Rare Isotope Beams at the International Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR) (T Aumann)
• The SPIRAL 2 Project at GANIL (D Goutte)
• The Evolution of Structure in Exotic Nuclei (R F Casten)
• Studies of Phase-Shift Equivalent Low-Momentum Nucleon–Nucleon Potentials (T T S Kuo & J D Holt)
• The Ab Initio Large-Basis No-Core Shell Model (B R Barrett et al.)
• Nuclear Structure Calculations with Modern Nucleon–Nucleon Potentials (A Covello et al.)
• Quantum Phase Transitions in Nuclei (F Iachello)
• Recent Results from Spectroscopic Studies of Exotic Heavy Nuclei at JYFL (R Julin)
• The Physics of Protein Folding and of Drug Design (R A Broglia & G Tiana)
• and other papers