Perspectives in hadron spectroscopy

Abstract

A brief survey is presented of selected recent results in hadron spectroscopy and related theoretical studies. This includes the pentaquarks and hadrons containing one or two charmed quarks or antiquarks.

Comments: Invited talk at the XIth International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, Blois, France, May 15-20, 2005 - To appear in the proceedings