The Cortona Conference is a biennial meeting of all Italian groups from about 20 universities who are active in theoretical nuclear physics. This volume presents the main achievements and perspectives of Italian theoretical nuclear physics, with particular reference to the last two years. The first part contains the invited talks on: nuclear structure; light nuclei physics; hadronic degrees of freedom; nuclear physics with electroweak probes; nuclear dynamics and nuclear matter; and first results about the AIACE experiment. Furthermore it includes two longer communications on: nuclear physics...

This volume contains the invited and contributed papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Perspectives in Hadronic Physics and sent to the Editors within the deadline. The Conference was held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, from May 12th to 16th, 2003, and was attended by about 100 scientists from 20 countries. The series ofConferences on Perspectives on Hadronic Physics takes place every two years since 1997 and follows the seven Workshops on Perspectives in Nuclear Physics at Intermediate Energies, organized every two...