Publisher's Synopsis
"Hot" topics in nuclear astrophysics are reviewed and discussed in these interdisciplinary proceedings at a level accessible to graduate students and researchers in nuclear physics or astrophysics. Leading experts cover topics including the origin of light elements, s-, p- and r-processes, neutrinos in astrophysics, type I and II supernovas, laboratory approaches to nuclear astrophysics problems, heavy ion reactions and the equation of state of dense nuclear matter.