Author Description

Preface -- Lectures on RCFT / G. Moore & N. Seiberg -- Some statistical mechanical models and conformal field theories / P. Ginsparg -- Lectures on N=2 superconformal theories and singularity theory / N.P. Warner -- Lectures on N=2 string theory / D. Gepner -- Compaction of superstrings / M. Dine -- Rolling among Calabi-Yau vacua / P. Candelas, P.S. Green & T. Hübsch -- Conformal field theory and geometric quantization / H. Verlinde & E. Verlinde -- Universal Moduli space and string theory / A.S. Schwarz -- Reparametrization BRS cohomology in two-dimensional gravity and non-critical string theories / K. Fujikawa -- Sigma models and renormalization of string loops / A.A. Tseytlin -- Baby universes / A. Strominger