Introductory talks -- Today’s view on strangeness -- Strange and gluonic contributions to the nucleon spin -- Form factors and two-photon effects -- Electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon -- Two photon effects in electron scattering -- Single spin asymmetries in elastic electron-nucleon scattering -- Transverse single spin asymmetry in elastic electron-proton scattering -- Transverse spin asymmetry at the A4 experiment -- Normal beam spin asymmetries during the G0 forward angle measurement -- Weak form factors of the nucleon -- The axial form factor of the nucleon -- Parity violating electron scattering at the MAMI facility in Mainz -- Updated results from the SAMPLE experiment -- The next generation HAPPEX experiments -- The G0 experiment: Parity violation in e-N elastic scattering -- Study of the parity violation in the ?(1232) region -- Don’t forget to measure ?s -- Getting to grips with hadrons -- Systematic uncertainties in the precise determination of the strangeness magnetic moment of the nucleon -- Current status of parton charge symmetry -- Pion-nucleon interaction and the strangeness content of the nucleon -- Strange form factors of the nucleon in the chiral quark-soliton model -- Strange form factors and Chiral Perturbation Theory -- Time-like compton scattering and the Bethe-Heitler process -- Corrections to the nuclear axial vector coupling in a nuclear medium -- Strangeness-conserving effective weak chiral Lagrangian -- Experimental techniques in PV electron scattering -- Overview of laser systematics -- Beam optics for electron scattering parity-violation experiments -- G0 beam quality and multiple linear regression corrections -- Møller polarimetry with atomic hydrogen targets -- Progress report on the A4 Compton backscattering polarimeter -- The transmission Compton polarimeter of the A4 experiment -- Stabilization system of the laser system of the A4 Compton backscattering polarimeter -- Electron beam line design of A4 Compton backscattering polarimeter -- Background substraction in parity violation experiments -- Redesign of the A4 calorimeter for the measurement at backward angles -- Performance of the G0 superconducting magnet system -- Cherenkov counter for the G0 backward angle measurements -- A bin-per-bin dead-time control technique for time-of-flight measurements in the G0 experiment: The differential buddy -- Hadronic structure... and more -- A precise measurement of sin 2 ? W at low Q 2 in Møller scattering -- Qweak: A precision measurement of the proton’s weak charge -- The Qweak tracking system -- Neutral currents and strangeness of the nucleon from the NuTeV experiment -- Parity violation in astrophysics -- Parity violation in nuclear systems -- Parity violation in nuclear systems -- Parity violating asymmetry in ? + d ? n + p at low energy -- Precision physics at a neutrino factory -- The MINER?A experiment at FNAL -- Concluding talks -- Frontiers of polarized electron scattering experiments -- Parity-violation with electrons: Theoretical perspectives -- Workshop summary.

This volume contains the selected and refereed papers from a new series of regularly held meetings on the fundamental issues and applications of parity violation in nuclear and particle physics.