This volume, devoted to the 70th birthday of the well-known St. Petersburg mathematician A. M. Vershik, contains a collection of articles by participants in the conference Representation Theory, Dynamical Systems, and Asymptotic Combinatorics, held in St. Petersburg in June of 2004. The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in combinatorial and dynamical aspects of group representation theory.

This volume, devoted to the 70th birthday of the well-known St. Petersburg mathematician A. M. Vershik, contains a collection of articles by participants in the conference Representation Theory, Dynamical Systems, and Asymptotic Combinatorics, held in St. Petersburg in June of 2004. The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in combinatorial and dynamical aspects of group representation theory.