History and basic characteristics of eruptive flares -- Basic magnetic configuration and energy supply processes for an interacting flux model of eruptive solar flares -- The role of cancelling magnetic fields in the buildup to erupting filaments and flares -- Variation of the vector magnetic field in an eruptive flare -- Intrinsically hot flares and a possible connection to deep convective magnetic fields -- Interaction of large-scale magnetic structures in solar flares -- The intrinsic relationship between flares and eruption of filament currents -- Filament eruptions, flaring arches and eruptive flares -- MHD non-equilibrium: A numerical experiment -- Triggering of eruptive flares: Destabilization of the preflare magnetic field configuration -- Field opening and reconnection -- Energy release at Alfvénic fronts in a force-free magnetic flux tube -- Energy transport in solar flares: Implications for Ca XIX emission -- Fluid flow in a jet and the CA XIX line profiles observed during solar flares -- Characteristics of the impulsive phase of flares -- Comparison of UV and X-ray solar flare observations and theoretical models -- White-light flares -- “Post” flare loops -- Plasma parameters derived from MSDP observations of cool flare loops -- Flare evolution in the density temperature diagram -- The Neupert Effect: What can i tell us about the impulsive and gradual phases of eruptive flares? -- Particle acceleration in the impulsive phase of solar flares -- Kinetic description of electron beams in the chromosphere -- Nuclear reactions in flares -- Radio emission of eruptive flares -- Arcsecond determination of solar burst centers of emission simultaneous to high time resolution and high sensitivity at 48 GHz -- Trapping and escape of the high energy particles responsible for major proton events -- Coronal and interplanetary transport of solar flare protons from the ground level event of 29 september 1989 -- High energetic solar proton flares of 19 to 29 October 1989 -- Large-scale quasi-stationary X-ray coronal structures associated with eruptive solar flares -- Large scale structures associated with eruptive flares and radio waves -- Coronal millimeter sources associated with eruptive flares -- On the association between large scale X-ray brightenings and solar flares -- A giant post-flare coronal arch observed by Skylab -- Characteristics of coronal mass ejections -- The solar sources of coronal mass ejections -- Remote sensing observations of mass ejections and shocks in interplanetary space -- In situ observations of coronal mass ejections in interplanetary space -- Meter-decameter radio emission associated with a coronal mass ejection -- Models of normal and inverse polarity filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections -- MHD shocks and simple waves in CMES -- Terrestrial response to eruptive solar flares: Geomagnetic storms -- Stellar flares: Confined or eruptive events? -- Radio flare emission from late-type stars -- The Solar-A mission experiments and the targets -- Nobeyama radioheliograph -- Decimeter high resolution solar radio spectroscope -- Considerations of a Solar Mass Ejection Imager in a low-earth orbit -- An Observational-conceptual model of the formation of filaments -- Dynamics in the prominence-corona transition region from HRTS spectra -- Active region classifications, complexity, and flare rates -- Compact sources of suprathermal microwave emission detected in quiescent active regions during lunar occulatations -- Velocity field in the 13 June 1980 flare area -- Deformation of magnetic null points -- The X12 limb flare and spray of 01 June 1991 -- Analysis of X-ray flares observed by the SMM spacecraft -- Distribution function for electron beams in the chromosphere -- Sub-second variations of HXR and H-alpha flare emission -- The role of protons in solar flares -- High spectral resolution of MM-wavelength (23 – 18 GHz) solar bursts -- Microwave flare characteristics in 8 and 3 mm Metsähovi measurements compared with optical and H-alpha data -- Simultaneous H? and microwave observations of a limb flare on June 20, 1989 -- Nonresonant ion-beam turbulence in solar flares -- Nonlinear emission mechanism of type III solar radio bursts -- A numerical simulation of magnetically driven coronal mass ejections -- Coronal mass ejections: The link between solar and geomagnetic activity -- A study of geomagnetic variations with periods of four years, six months and 27 days -- Atmospheric models of flare stars -- The emerging picture of eruptive solar flares.

This is an exhaustive survey of present-day solar research including both theory and observations. It deals with eruptive flares, filament eruption in x-rays and radio waves, energy release and transport, and terrestrial response to solar flares. Details of the most recent SOLAR-A project (launched shortly after the conference) are also presented.