Includes bibligraphical references.

Preface -- Kinetic theory of granular gases -- Granular flows in the weakly inelastic limit -- M.Bisi,G.Spiga,G.Toscani -- Origins of hydrodynamics for a granular gas -- J.W.Dufty,J.J.Brey -- Hydrodynamics for a granular gas -- A.Baskaran,J.W.Dufty -- On the linear boltzmann equation for granular gases -- B.Lods -- Gravity-driven poiseuille flow in dilute gases -- A.Santos,M.Tij -- Chemical reacing gases and other kinetic models -- Perspectives in semiconductor device simulation -- G.Ali,A.M.Anile,G.Mascali -- Kinetic approach to chemically reacting gas mixtures -- M.Bisi, M.Groppi,G.Spiga -- Steady detonation problem for slow and fast chemical reactions -- F.Conforto..-- A kinetic model for chemically reacting gases -- L.Desvillettes..-- Overpopulkated tails in non conservative kinetic models -- L.Pareschi,G.Toscani -- Numerical methods and simulations -- Discrete kinetic models and conversation lows -- A.V.Bobylev, M.C.Vinerian -- Modelling of shock waves and clustering in hydrodynamic simulations of granular gases -- J.A.Carrillo,C.Saluena -- Hybrid Monte Carlo methods for the diffusion of impurities in a gas -- E.Ferrari,L.Pareschi -- A rescaling velocity method for kinetic equations:the homogeneous case -- F.Filbet,G.Russo -- Transient clusters in granular gases -- Th.Poschel.. -- Index.