"New Trends in Nuclear Collective Dynamics" emphasizes research toward understanding collective and statistical aspects of nuclear dynamics. Well-known lecturers from centers of nuclear research present reviews of recent developments. The topics covered are: -order and chaos in finite quantum systems -dissipation in heavy-ion collisions -collective motionsin warm nuclei -time-dependent mean-field theory with collision terms -nuclear fission and multi-dimensional tunneling -large-scale collective motion

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Collective Versus Statistical Aspects of Nuclear Motion.- Tests of Fundamental Symmetries in Compound-Nucleus Scattering.- Chaos in Nuclei.- Ericson Fluctuations Versus Conductance Fluctuations: Similarities and Differences.- Hot Nuclei - Landau Theory, Thermal Fluctuations and Dissipation.- Dissipation and Thermal Fluctuations in Heavy-Ion Collisions.- Multi-Dimensional Tunneling and Nuclear Fission.- Phase-Space Dynamics of Heavy-Ion Reactions.- Quantum Chaology: Our Knowledge and Ignorance.- True Quantum Chaos? An Instructive Example.- Toward the Fundamental Theory of Nuclear Matter Physics: The Microscopic Theory of Nuclear Collective Dynamics.- Mean Field Dynamics and Low-Lying Collective Excitations.- Rotational Motion in Warm Atomic Nuclei.- Collectivity and Chaoticity in Nuclear Dynamics.- Index of Contributors.