Preface: International workshop on nuclear structure physics

An International Workshop on Nuclear Structure Physics was held in June 1-7, 2008, in Shanghai. The purpose of this Workshop is to review the achievements of a few selected topics, to exchange ideas, and look to the future along these lines. The topics included the properties of low-lying states of medium and heavy nuclei, approximations of the nuclear shell model and applications, structures of atomic nuclei under random interactions, and algebraic approaches in nuclear structure theory. There are 33 talks and 43 participants in this workshop.