This proceedings volume aims to expose graduate students to the basic ideas of field theory and statistical mechanics and to give them an understanding and appreciation of current topical research.
General principles of statistical mechanics, P.A. Pearce; the connection between statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, B.M. McCoy; two-dimensional models in statistical mechanics, R.J. Baxter; topics in conformal field theory, C. Itzykson; quantum gravity as dynamical triangulation, A.A. Migdal; lattice gauge theory, C.J. Hamer; quantum groups for physicists, M. Gould; chaos versus order in Hamiltonian dynamical systems, G.R.W. Quispel; quantum and classical integrable systems and statistical mechanics, R.K. Bullough and J.T. Timonen; introduction to quantum field theory, R.J. Crewther.
