Seven papers report on recent advances in physics, looking at areas such as gravitational instability of collisionless fermions in the expanding universe, random fragmentations in continuous times, and deformed mean field versus alpha-cluster with Jastrow and linear state dependent correlations in p-shell nuclei. Other topics are radiation effects on convective heat transfer in an electrically conducting micropolar fluid at a stretching surface with variable viscosity, and temperature and density jumps in kinetic theory of gases. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR