This volume discusses some of the main achievements and perspectives of nuclear structure physics for both experiment and theory. The main themes are: spectroscopy of exotic nuclei; from nucleon-nucleon interaction to nuclear structure; recent developments in the study of collective excitations; nuclear structure physics in other research fields.
New trends in physics with the forthcoming radioactive nuclear beams facilities, M. Lewitowicz; nuclear forces and nuclear structure, R. Machleidt; defining the nuclear mean field, B.A. Brown; independent particle motion and correlations, I. Sick; nucleon-nucleon effective interactions and two-frequency shell model, T.T.S. Kuo et al; realistic shell-model calculations near closed shells, A. Covello et al; shell model nuclei studied in deep-inelastic heavy-ion reactions, R. Broda et al; advanced b-spectroscopic studies of single-particle and collective excitations at 132Sn, H Mach et al; low-lying dipole excitations in heavy nuclei studied in photon scattering experiments, U. Kneissl et al; trends and perspectives in nuclear physics, F. Iachello. (Part contents)