Solar Polarization

Scattering Physics.- The Density Matrix Approach to Polarized Radiative Transfer.- Atomic Coherences and Level-Crossings Physics.- Partial Frequency Redistribution of Polarized Radiation.- Partial Redistribution Effects on Line Polarization in the Presence of Velocity Fields.- Diagnostics with the Hanle Effect.- The First and Second Order Moments of the Polarization Profiles of Hydrogen Lines.- Magnetic Polarimetric Refraction in the Solar Corona.- Numerical Methods in Polarized Radiative Transfer.- Non-LTE Polarized Radiative Transfer in Intermediate Magnetic Fields: Numerical Problems and Results.- The Polarization-Free Approximation.- The Polarization-Free Approxima-tion Applied to Multi-Level Non-LTE Radiative Transfer.- Stokes Profiles Inversion Tech-niques.- Contribution Functions for Polarized Radiative Transfer.- Net Circular Polarization in Magnetic Spectral Lines Produced by Velocity Gradients: Some Analytical Results.- Micro-Structured Magnetic Atmospheres.- A Complex Diagnostic of Solar Prominences.- Polarized Radiation Diagnostics of Magnetohydrodynamic Models of the Solar Atmosphere.- Recent Progress in Imaging Polarimetry.- The Influence of Sunspot Canopies on Magnetic Inclination Measurements in Solar Plages.- Measurement of the Full Stokes Vector of He.- Inversion of Stokes Vector Profiles in Terms of a 3-Component Model.- Field Azimuth Disambiguation Using Ambiguity-Free Currents.- High Resolution Observations of Small-Scale Magnetic Elements and Interpretation.- Polarimetry of Solar Pores.- High Resolution Polarimetric Measurements in a Sunspot.- Magnetic Fields of Sunspots Based on Combined Optical and Radio Observations.- Polarimetric Study of Solar Flares.- Characteristics of the Linear Polarization Observed in the 16 May 1991 Solar Flare.- FourierParameters and Moments of Polarization Profiles of Magnetically Active Lines. Fourier Vector Magnetograph.- Aspects of the Zero Level Problem of Solar Magnetographs.- Singular Points of the Polarization Tensor.- Determination of Polarization of Vacuum-Ultraviolet Radiation by Fluorescence and Probe- Beam Techniques.- Balloon-Borne Polarimetry.- Zeeman-Doppler Imaging of Solar-Type Stars: Multi Line Technique.- Author Index.- List of Participants.