In the spring of 1970 Peter Farago organised a three-day conference on Polarised Electron Beams at Carberry Tower, near Edinburgh. Although the development of the gallium arsenide source, which was to revolutionise the world of experimental polarised electron physics, was still some years in the future, the meeting provided an important forum for the exchange of ideas among theoreticians and experimentalists engaged in both high and low energy electron collision studies. As soon as the decision had been taken to hold the 5th European Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics in Edinburgh in 1995, it occurred to the editors of the present volume that it would be highly appropriate to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Carberry Tower Conference by organising an ECAMP satellite meeting in honour of Peter Farago. The opportunity to pay tribute to Peter's many important contributions in the broad field of electron physics attracted colleagues from allover the world to the symposium, which was held in the rooms of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 31st March and 1st April 1995. Peter himself, now Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, was present throughout the meeting. We were particularly happy to welcome back to Edinburgh many participants in the original Carberry Tower conference; these included Professor P. G. Burke, Professor J. Kessler, Professor E. Reichert and Professor H. C. Siegmann, whose review papers had been highlights of the 1970 meeting.

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Electron-Atom Collisions: (e,2e) Coincidence Measurements at Low Energy; A.J. Murray, et al. Measurement of Spin Observables in Electron Scattering from Atoms and Nucleons; G. Baum, W. Raith. Electron-Molecule Collision: Electron Optic Dichroism; J. Kessler. Scattering of Chiral Electrons by Chiral Molecules; T.J. Gay, et al. Production of Polarized Electrons and Electron Spin Filters: A Polarized Electron Source Using Gallium Arsenide Strained by Differential Thermal Contraction; D.M. Campbell, G. Lampel. Ultrathin Magnetic Structures and Spin Filter; H.C. Siegmann. Electronsolid State, Surface and Cluster Interactions: Interaction of Spinpolarized Helium 23S-atoms with Ferromagnetic Surfaces; H. Steidl, G. Baum. Spin Asymmetries in Relativistic (e,2e) Processes and Bremsstrahlung; W. Nakel. Ion-Atom and Molecule Collisions: Ion-Atom Collisions Involving Laserprepared Na Atom Targets; Z. RollerLutz, et al. Photoionization of Atoms Molecules and Solids: Photoionization Dynamics Studied by Coincidence Spectroscopy; U. Becker, J. Viefhaus. Spectroscopy: Anisotropies and Lamb Shifts in Hydrogenic Ions: Twenty Years of Progress; G.W.F.Drake, A. van Wijngaarden. 29 additional articles. Index.