Photonuclear Reactions II International School on Electro- and Photonuclear Reactions, Erice, Italy 1976

Recent developments at M.I.T..- News from Saclay.- Electron scattering work at Amsterdam; past, present and future activities.- Electronuclear sum rules.- A Review of present photonuclear research at Lund and future accelerator plans.- A monochromatic and polarized photon beam for photonuclear reactions. The ladon project at Frascati.- Latest from the DALINAC.- Preliminary results on the annihilation photon beam at the Frascati Linac laboratory.- Some experimental results on the measurement of the total photoabsorption cross sections.- Electroexcitation of giant multipole resonances.- Description of isoscalar giant resonances. A sum-rule approach.- The center of mass problem in continuum calculations of nuclear reaction cross sections.- A simple model for resonance shifts.- Nucleon polarizabilities and deep inelastic electron scattering.- Exchange effects in photon scattering on nuclei.