Introductory Remarks -- Session I -- Magnetic Field Reconnection in Cosmic Plasmas (Invited Review) -- Patchy Reconnection and Magnetic Ropes in Astrophysical Plasmas (Invited Review) -- Magnetic Flux Ropes of Venus: A Paradigm for Helical Magnetic Structures in Astrophysical Systems (Poster Paper) -- Laboratory Experiments On Current Sheet Disruptions, Double Layers, Turbulence and Reconnection (Invited Review) -- Reconnection in Sheared Magnetic Fields in Space and Astrophysics (Invited Review) -- Session II -- Formation, Equilibrium and Stability of Jets (Invited Review) -- Energy Dissipation Mechanisms in the Solar Corona (Invited Review) -- On the Role of Double Layers in Astrophysical Plasmas (Invited Contribution) -- Particle Energization in Stochastic Double Layers -- Links Between Jet Instabilities, Radiation and Propagation in Astrophysics (Invited Contribution) -- A Unified Theory of Coronal Heating -- Session III -- Laboratory Experiments on Reconnection in Current Sheets (Invited Review) -- Computer Simulation of Reconnection in Planetary Magnetospheres (Invited Review) -- Observational Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection in Microwave Solar Bursts -- Acceleration of Runaway Electrons and Joule Heating in Solar Flares -- The Coalescence Instability and Solar Flares (Invited Contribution) -- 3D Simulation of Externally Driven Reconnection -- Opening of the Magnetic Field Lines in a Fast Rotating Magnetosphere, with an Application to Jupiter -- Quasi-Static Evolution of Force-free Magnetic Fields and a Model for Two-Ribbon Solar Flares (Poster Paper) -- Solar Microwave Emission in Active Regions (Poster Paper) -- Session IV -- Current Sheets in Solar Flares (Invited Contribution) -- Energy Dissipation Mechanisms in Flare Stars (Invited Review) -- A Unified Treatment of the Filament and Flare Instabilities (Invited Contribution) -- Nonlinear Evolution of the Resistive Tearing Mode (Poster Paper) -- Resistive Instabilities in Astrophysical Conditions: A Critical Discussion (Poster Paper) -- Magnetodynamical Processes in Interacting Magnetospheres in RS CVn Binaries -- 'sweeping Pinch' Mechanism and the Acceleration of Jets in Astrophysics (Poster Paper) -- Energy Release in Solar -- An Interpretation of Millisecond Time Variation in Hard X-ray Solar Flares -- Observations of the Earth's Cross-Tail Current Sheet and Their Implications -- Plasma Instabilities Generated by Streaming Particles -- Session V -- Anomalous Transport in Current Sheets (Invited Review) -- Anomalous Transport Induced by Field Aligned Currents and its Relation to Electromagnetic Coupling (Invited Review) -- Self-Confined Cosmic Rays (Invited Review) -- Nonlinear Effects and the Limitation of Electron Streaming Instabilities in Astrophysics -- Cosmic Rays and the Parker Instability (Poster Paper) -- Phase Mixing of Propagating Alfvén Waves -- Velocity Shear Instabilities in the Anisotropic Solar Wind (Poster Paper) 371 -- Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities in a Magnetised Compressible Plasma (Sheared Flow) -- Session VI -- Plasma Heating by Alfvén Waves - Kinetic Properties of Magnetohydrodynamic Disturbances (Invited Review) -- Kinetic Theory of Alfven Wave Heating (Poster Paper) -- MHD Equilibrium and Instabilities in Extragalactic Jets (Invited Review) -- Bursting Particle Acceleration in Radio Jets (Invited Contribution) -- Instabilities in Astrophysical Jets: Disease and Cure (Invited Contribution) -- Current Systems in Radio Jets -- Is the Jet in M87 Magnetically Confined? -- Session VII -- Laboratory Plasma Processes of Astrophysical Interest (Invited Review) -- Accretion Disk Electrodynamics (Invited Review) -- Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Production by Current Disruption in Active Galactic Nuclei (Poster Paper) -- Theory of Strongly Turbulent Two-Dimensional Cross Field Convection of Current Carrying Space Plasmas (Abstract) -- Magnetic Field Reconnection in Differentially Rotating Accretion Disks -- Coronal Arcades in the Sun and Their Hydromagnetic Stability -- MHD Analysis of the Evolution of Solar Magnetic Fields and Currents in an Active Region (Poster Paper) -- Bending Waves on Current Sheets -- Quasi-Two-Dimensional Cosmic Jets -- Session VIII -- Creation of High Energy Electron Tails by Lower-Hybrid Waves and its Relevance to Type II and III Bursts -- Current Status of the Dissipative Thermal Model for Solar Hard X-ray Bursts (Poster Paper) -- Non-Stochastic Acceleration of Protons in the Magnetic Neutral Sheet -- Beam Return Current Systems in Solar Flares -- Collisionless Effects on Beam-Return Current Systems in Solar Flares -- Session IX -- Summary of Conference (Invited Summary) -- Perspectives on Space and Astrophysical Plasma Physics -- Contributions from the U.S.S.R. -- Spatio-Temporal Features of the Development of Microwave Emission of Active Regions and Flares -- Concerning the Dynamics of Energetic Protons in Coronal Magnetic Loops: Dispersion Effects of Alféen Waves.