1. Magnetic Discontinuities from Field Topology

   • E. N. Parker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 7

2. Preface

   • Jörg Büchner
   • Ian Axford
   • Vytenis Vasyliūnas

   Preface Pages: 7 - 8

3. List of Participants on the Conference Picture

   Summary List Pages: 9 - 12

4. Thoughts on Reconnection

   • Harry E. Petschek

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 16

5. Table 1: List of Participants

   Summary List Pages: 13 - 20

6. Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysical Plasmas - MHD Approach

   • A. Otto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 24

7. Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysical Plasmas - Kinetic Approach

   • J. Büchner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 42

8. The Darkest Regions of Solar Polar Coronal Holes Observed by SUMER on SOHO

   • Klaus Wilhelm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 52

9. Coronal Holes Versus Normal Quiet Sun Observed with SUMER

   • K. Stucki
   • S.K. Solanki
   • M.C.E. Huber

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 61

10. Cyclotron Heating of the Solar Corona

    • Eckart Marsch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 76

11. Heating the Solar Corona by Magnetic Reconnection

    • E.R. Priest

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 100

12. Solar Wind Acceleration by the Dissipation of Alfvén Waves

    • A. A. Galeev
    • A. M. Sadovski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 112

13. Plasma Heating by Forced Magnetic Reconnection

    • Rekha Jain
    • Grigory E. Vekstein

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 128

14. Evidence of Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares and a Unified Model of Flares

    • Kazunari Shibata

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 144

15. Observations of Flares and Active Regions from Yohkoh, and Magnetodynamic Models Explaining Them

    • Y. Uchida
    • S. Hirose
    • T. Yamaguchi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 169

16. Solar Flare Phenomena as Phase Transition Caused by Frustration of Current Percolation

    • L.A. Pustil'nik

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 182

17. Steady MHD Solutions for Collimated Winds

    • E. Trussoni
    • C. Sauty
    • N. Vlahakis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 194

18. Magnetodynamic Formation of Jets in Accretion Process of Magnetized Mass onto the Central Gravitator — Cases of Forming Stars and Active Galactic Nuclei

    • Y. Uchida
    • M. Nakamura
    • S. Uemura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 212

19. Interstellar Dust in the Solar System

    • H. Kimura
    • I. Mann
    • A. Wehry

    OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 218

20. Shocks in Space Dusty Plasmas

    • S.I. Popel
    • V.N. Tsytovich

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 226

21. Observations of Ions in Comets: A Contribution Towards Understanding the Comet-Solar Wind Interaction

    • K. Jockers
    • T. Bonev
    • T. Credner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 234

22. Waves and Instabilities in Magnetized Dusty Plasmas

    • Padma K. Shukla

    OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 245

23. Observations of Electromagnetically Coupled Dust in the Jovian Magnetosphere

    • H. Krüger
    • E. Grün
    • S. Lammers

    OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 256

24. Dust Plasma Interactions at Jupiter

    • Mihály Horányi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 271

25. The Martian Magnetosphere - A Laboratory for Bi-Ion Plasma Investigations

    • E. Dubinin
    • K. Sauer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 273 - 288

26. Formation of Thin Current Sheets and Other Recent Developments in Magnetospheric Activity

    • Karl Schindler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 302

27. Self-Organized Criticality, Multi-Fractal Spectra, and Intermittent Merging of Coherent Structures in the Magnetotail

    • Tom Chang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 316

28. Fracton Excitations as a Driving Mechanism for the Self-Organized Dynamical Structuring in the Solar Wind

    • A.V. Milovanov
    • L.M. Zelenyi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 317 - 345

29. Self-Generation of Magnetic Fields in Weakly Ionized Astrophysical Plasmas

    • H. Wiechen
    • G. T. Birk
    • H. Lesch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 347 - 356

30. Dynamo Dominated Accretion and Energy Flow: The Mechanism of Active Galactic Nuclei

    • S. A. Colgate
    • H. Li

    OriginalPaper Pages: 357 - 380

31. Generation of Magnetic Field and Fast Particles During Collision of Electron-Positron Plasma Clouds

    • J.I. Sakai
    • Y. Kazimura
    • S. V. Bulanov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 381 - 390

32. Coherent Emission in Astrophysics: A Critique

    • D.B. Melrose

    OriginalPaper Pages: 391 - 400

33. Radiation from Instabilities in Space Plasmas

    • D.B. Melrose

    OriginalPaper Pages: 401 - 410

34. Coherent Emission Mechanisms in Radio Pulsars

    • Maxim Lyutikov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 411 - 421

35. The Origin of Highest Energy Cosmic Rays and Cosmic Magnetic Fields

    • Peter L. Biermann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 423 - 435

36. Cosmic Rays and Clusters of Galaxies

    • W.-H. Ip
    • W.I. Axford

    OriginalPaper Pages: 437 - 442

37. Cosmic Ray Nonlinear Processes in Space Plasma: Applications to the Dynamic Heliosphere

    • Lev I. Dorman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 443 - 455

38. Recent Developments in Quasilinear Cosmic Ray Particle Acceleration Theories

    • Reinhard Schlickeiser
    • Rami Vainio

    OriginalPaper Pages: 457 - 469

39. Constraints on Particle Acceleration from the Extragalactic γ-Ray Background

    • K. Mannheim

    OriginalPaper Pages: 471 - 479

40. Diffusive Shock Acceleration of Electrons at an Interplanetary Shock Observed on 21 Feb 1994

    • N. Shimada
    • T. Terasawa
    • K. Maezawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 481 - 488

41. High Energetic Electrons Accelerated by a Coronal Shock Wave

    • G. Mann
    • H.-T. Classen
    • W. Dröge

    OriginalPaper Pages: 489 - 496

42. The Injection, Acceleration, and Dynamical Influence of Interstellar Pickup Ions at the Solar Wind Termination Shock

    • Martin A. Lee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 497 - 508

43. Interplanetary Pick-Up Ion Acceleration A Study of Anisotropic Phase-Space Diffusion

    • S.V. Chalov
    • H.J. Fahr

    OriginalPaper Pages: 509 - 525

44. Dissipation, Ion Injection, and Acceleration in Collisionless Quasi-Parallel Shocks

    • M. Scholer
    • H. Kucharek

    OriginalPaper Pages: 527 - 543

45. Particle Acceleration at Comet Related Shock Surfaces

    • Susan M.P. McKenna-Lawlor
    • E. Kirsch
    • P. Daly

    OriginalPaper Pages: 545 - 566

46. List of Forthcoming Papers

    Other Index Pages: 567 - 567

47. The Kluwer Latex Style File

    Instructions for Authors Pages: 569 - 570