Proceedings of the workshop on gammasphere physics : Berkeley, CA, 1-2 December, 1995

New properties of superdeformed nuclei, recent results from Argonne, M. Carpenter staggering and other weak features of superdeformed bands, P. Twin exotic nuclear shapes, S. Aberg current status of hyperdeformation in Gd nuclei, D. Sarantities GAMMASPHERE, I.Y. Lee recent results with GASP, S. Lunardi elementary particle physics and astrophysics with gammasphere, S. Freedman death and rebirth of collectivity - new regions of band termination and superdeformation, C Baktash gammasphere results from Berkeley, P. Fallon superdeformed and normal deformed spectroscopy in 81 Sr, J. Saladin multiplicity of shapes in light TI nuclei, L. Riedinger gammasphere physics far from stability, W. Nazarewicz shears bands and superdeformed bands, results from Livemore, J. Becker lifetime measurements and the issue of identical superdeformed bands, F. Moore shell model at gammasphere - studies in the A=96 region, U. Gard superdeformation in 198Po and the competition with fission, J. Cizewski identical superdeformed bands, B. Haas smooth termination of intruder bands near Z=50, D. Fossan hyperdeformation and new nuclear structures from spontaneous fission, J. Hamilton delays with gammasphere - K-isomers in changing times, P. Chowdhury superdeformation at higher temperatures, B. Herskind mass 140 region superdeformation and Coulomb excitation studies with the 8#185# spectrometer, J. Waddington spectroscopy near spin 50 in 155,156Dy, M. Riley multiple rotational bands in odd-odd 156,158Ho, C.H. Yu phase transitions along and above the Yrast line in 154Dy, W. Ma residual interactions and spin orientation in rotating nuclei, S. Frauendorf.