Experts on elementary-particle physics, both theorists and experimentalists, met to present their latest results on the various aspects of HERA physics, specifically, the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA and the collaborations at LEP and the Tevatron were presented. The topics included: proton structure function; polarized ep scattering; final states in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), with special emphasis on jet production at low x, power corrections in DIS, soft particle production, and instanton effects; photon structure function; photoproduction of jets and hadrons; heavy-flavour and charmonium production; elastic and diffractive ep scattering; and new physics at HERA. TOC:From the contents: Proton Structure.- Final States in Deep-Inelastic Scattering.- Photon Structure and Photoproduction of Jets and Hadrons.- Heavy-Flavour Production.- Elastic and Diffractive ep Scattering.- New Physics at HERA.

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Proton Structure.- Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering at HERA and Related Phenomenology.- Measurements of F2 and the total photon-proton cross sections at low x and low Q2.- Diagonal and Skewed Parton Distributions.- QCD Evolution of Structure Functions at Small x.- Screening Effects on F2 at Low x and Q2.- Experimental Results and Perspectives of Polarized Lepton-Nucleon Scattering.- Polarized Parton Densities and Processes.- Final States in Deep-Inelastic Scattering.- Forward Jet Production at HERA.- Forward Jet Production at HERA.- Forward Jet and Hadron Production at Low x and Q2.- Measurements of Jet Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering.- Jet Production in DIS.- Hadronic Final States in Deep Inelastic Scattering at HERA.- Power Corrections to the Parton Model in DIS.- Soft Limits of Multiparticle Observables and Parton Hadron Duality.- Theory and Phenomenology of Instantons at HERA.- Photon Structure and Photoproduction of Jets and Hadrons.- Experimental Results on Two-Photon Physics from LEP.- Hard Photoproduction and the Structure of the Photon.- Photon Structure and the Production of Jets, Hadrons, and Prompt Photons.- Heavy-Flavour Production.- Measurement of Open b Production at HERA.- Open Heavy-Flavour Photoproduction at NLO.- Open Charm Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering at Next-to-Leading Order at HERA.- Heavy Quarkonium Production at HERA.- Color-Octet Contributions to Inelastic Heavy-Quarkonium Production.- Elastic and Diffractive ep Scattering.- Light Vector Meson Production at HERA.- Theory of Elastic Vector Meson Production.- Inclusive Diffraction at HERA.- Hard Diffraction at the TEVATRON.- Towards the Theory of Diffractive DIS.- Soft and Hard Pomerons.- New Physics at HERA.- Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at HERA.- High PT Leptons and W Production at HERA.- Beyond the Standard Model at HERA.