  The Fifth Workshop on Galactic Chemodynamics (GCDV) is the pre-eminent
workshop devoted exclusively to observational and theoretical research into the
formation and evolution of galaxies. GCDV brought together 46 researchers from
13 countries for an intensive workshop at Swinburne University in July 2003.
Each of the 28 papers included in the workshop proceedings have been formally
refereed in their entirety, published as a special volume of the Publications
of the Astronomical Society of Australia, and available through NASA's
Astronomical Data System (ADS).
