This volume contains lectures on recent advances in the theory of integrable systems and quantum groups. It introduces the reader to attractive areas of current research.
Knots, braids and statistical mechanics, V.F.R. Jones; integrability and quantum symmetries, C. Gomez and G. Sierra; integrable systems associated to the lattice version of the virasoro algebra- 1 the classical open chain, O. Babelon; quasi Hopf algebras, group cohomology and orbifold models, P. Roche et al; aspects of affine toda field theory, E. Corrigan et al; new aspects of complete integrability, G. Vilas; Poisson-Nijenhuis structures, truncated loop algebras and Sato's KP hierarchy, G. Magnano and F. Magri; SU(2)q and 2+1 quantum gravity, J.E. Nelson and T. Regge.
