These proceedings offer professional astronomers an overview of the rapidly advancing subject of galaxy interactions at low and high redshifts. The symposium gave participants an exciting glimpse of a developing synthesis highlighting galactic encounters and their role in the history of the Universe.

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Preface. Participants. Color plates. 1. Overview. 2. Local group. 3. Tidal interactions. 4. Mergers & remnants. 5. Starbursts. 6. Nuclear activity. 7. Groups & clusters. 8. Deep fields & evolution. 9. Perspectives. Author index. Subject index. Object index.