The Fifth International Conference on Atomic Physics was held July 26-30, 1976 in Berkeley, California. Invited talks were solicited which were representative of the most important developments since the fourth conference held in Heidelberg, Germany in 1974. In this volume, we have collected the manuscripts of the invited speakers, in the belief that they represent a guide to contemporary re­ search in atomic physics. Experimental work on such topics as the search for parity violation, spectroscopy and collision processes of fast, highly-stripped heavy ions, exotic atoms, high-Rydberg states, laser spectros­ copy, photoelectron spectroscopy, and others are described. The work described in these manuscripts is a clear mea­ sure of the continued vitality of our field. One unhappy event since the last conference was the passing of Dr. Victor William (Bill) Cohen (1911-1974) of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Bill was one of the scientists who recognized early the need for personal communication among atomic physicists and was the prime mover in establishing the present international conference series. Everyone who has enjoyed the stimulation of these conferences is indebted to Bill Cohen, and we dedicate this volume of the proceedings to his memory.

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Parity Violation Effects Induced by Neutral Currents in Atoms.- An Optical Rotation Experiment to Search for Neutral Current Effects in Atomic Bismuth.- Search for Parity Non-Conserving Optical Rotation in Atomic Bismuth.- Atomic Physics Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics.- Hadronic Atoms.- Detection of ?-µ Coulomb Bound States.- Review of Precision Positronium Experiments.- Hyperfine Structure of Stored Ions - Results for 2s 2He+.- Multiphotonic High Resolution Spectroscopy.- Laser Spectroscopy and Predissociation of Molecules.- Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopy : Quantum Beats and Superradiance.- Atomic Beam Experiments at the Isolde Facility at CERN.- High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of Radioactive Sodium Isotopes.- Nuclear Excitation by Electron Transition.- Hyperfine and Isotope Shift Measurements Far- Off Stability by Optical Pumping.- Highly-Excited Atoms.- Anisotropy and Time Dependence in Atomic Collisions.- R-Matrix Theory of Atomic and Molecular Processes.- Electron Correlation in Atoms From Photoelectron Spectroscopy.- Polarized Electrons.- Role of Impurities in Magnetically Confined High-Temperature Plasmas.- Diagnostic Problems of Large Tokamaks.- Relativistic Magnetic-Dipole Transitions in Atoms, Ions, and Psions.- The Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments of the Neutron.- Spectroscopy of Highly-Ionized Atoms Produced by a Low-Inductance Vacuum Spark.- Influence of Electron Capture on X-ray Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions.- Ion-Induced Continuum X-ray Emission.- The Ionization of Inner Shells of Atoms With Account of Outer Shell Rearrangement.