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Contents: Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Path Integrals and String (B Hatfield) From Polyakov to Moduli (J Polchinski) Geometry of Quantum Strings (E D'Hoker & D H Phong) BRST Quantization and BRST Cohomology (N Marcus & A Sagnotti) Analytic Structure of Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theories (P Nelson) Geometrical Meaning of Currents in String Theory (O Alvarez & P Windey) String Field Theory and the Geometry of Moduli Space (S Giddings) String Theory Without a Background Spacetime Geometry (G Horowitz) Holomorphic Curves on Manifolds of SU(3) Holonomy (E Witten) Vertex Operator Calculus (I Frenkel et al.) On Determinant Line Bundles (D Freed) h-Invariant and the Index (I Singer) Action Principles and Global Geometry (G Zuckerman) Introduction to Moduli Space of Curves (J Harris) Moduli Space of Punctured Surfaces (R Penner) Geometric Complex Coordinates for Teichmüller Space (A Marden) Asymptotics of the Selberg Zeta Function and the Polyakov Bosonic Integrand (S Wolpert) Super Riemann Surfaces (J Rabin) Divisors on Mg and the Cosmological Constant (M Chang & Z Ran) Severi Problem: A Post-Mortem (?) (Z Ran) Slope of Subvarieties of M15 (6 2/3 ≤ S15 ≤ 6 3/4) (M Chang & Z Ran) Arithmetic Intersections (G Faltings) Deformation Theory for Cohomology of Analytic Vector Bundles on Kähler Manifolds (M Green & R Lazarsfeld) Topology and Geometry in Superstring-Inspired Phenomenology (B Greene et al.) Yukawa Couplings between (2, 1)-Forms (P Candelas) Three-Dimen