This symposium was organized in order to discuss recent developments and future perspectives in intermediate-energy heavy-ion physics. The subjects included sub-barrier fusion, superheavy elements, fission; halo, skin nuclei; multi-fragmentation, collective flow, compression; properties of hot nuclei; high spin and exotic nuclear shapes; nuclear astrophysics; applications; facilities.
Fusion and break-up around the Coulomb barrier with halo/loosely bound unstable nuclei, C. Signorini; the effect of dipole mode in heavy-ion reaction involving very neutron rich systems, A. Vitturi; a new multi element detector system at LNS for heavy-ion reaction studies at intermediate energies, A. Pagano; target fragmentation by GeV energy proton, T. Murakami; structure of nuclei far from stability, T. Otsuka; coulomb excitation of a halo nucleus 11Be, T. Nakamura; dynamic instability, fluctuations and chaoticity in heavy-ion reactions, A. Rapisarda; fission as dissipative process, T. Wada; new approach to the width of giant dipole resonance in hot nuclei, D. Nguyen; pre-equilibrium GDR excitation in heavy-ion deep inelastic reactions, M. Sandoli; low energy neutron induced reaction for nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics, Y. Nagai; laser spectroscopy on radioactive isotopes of refractory elements, M. Wakasugi; nuclear- and astroparticle-physics programmes at RCNP Osaka - present and perspective, H. Ejiri; in-beam spectroscopy of exotic nuclei with GASP 4-pi gamma array, G. De Angelis; cranked shell model for warm rotation nuclei, M. Matsuo; and other papers.