Table of Contents:
  • In Memoriam / Claude Itzykson
  • Classical Geometry and Target Space Duality / Orlando Alvarez
  • (Perturbed) Conformal Field Theory Applied to 2d Disordered Systems: An Introduction / Denis Bernard
  • Does Coupling to Gravity Preserve Integrability? / Adel Bilal
  • Self-Avoiding Random Manifolds / Francois David
  • Folding, Meanders and Arches / P. Di Francesco, O. Golinelli and E. Guitter
  • Topological [sigma]-Models and the Large-n Techniques / Tohru Eguchi
  • Chirality Deconfinement beyond the c = 1 Barrier of Two Dimensional Gravity / Jean-Loup Gervais
  • Lectures on Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Electric-Magnetic Duality / K. Intriligator and N. Seiberg
  • Bilinear Functional Equations of Hirota Type in Statistical Models on Random Surfaces / Ivan K. Kostov
  • Calogero-Sutherland Model and Singular Vectors of W algebras / Y. Matsuo
  • Matrix Models, Quantum Penner Action and Two Dimensional String Theory / Camillo Imbimbo and Sunil Mukhi