1 Table of Contents: “... -- The Phenomenology of Strings and Clusters in the 3-d Ising Model -- Conformai Field Theory Techniques in Large N...”

2 Table of Contents: “... Holes and D-Branes -- M-Theory and N = 2 Strings -- Branes Within Branes -- Review of Matrix Theory...”

3 Table of Contents: “... gravity -- String theory and classical integrable systems -- On background independence in string theory...”

4 Table of Contents: “... can a curve have? -- Quantum cohomology of rational surfaces -- Quantum intersection rings -- Mirror...”

5 Table of Contents: “... operad -- Operads, deformation theory and F-manifolds -- Witten’s top Chern class on the moduli space...”

6 Table of Contents: “... field -- An adaptive k-NN rule based on Dempster-Shafer theory -- Shadows, defocus and reliable...”