Quantum Field Theory: Perspective and Prospective

Correlation Functions through Variational Methods.- Reader’s Guide to String Duality and Matrix Theory.- An Introduction to Equivariant Cohomology.- Hopf Algebras, Renormalization and Noncommutative Geometry.- The Peierls Bracket.- Gauge Theory without Ghosts and Quantum Gravity without Ghosts.- Quantized Branes and Symmetries of String Theory.- Instructive History of the Quantum Inverse Scattering Method.- The Electron is Inexhaustible.- Exact Solution of Random Tiling Models.- Dimensionally Reduced Chern-Simons Terms and their Solutions.- BPS Branes in Supergravity.- Selected Topics in Perturbative Field Theory: Renormalization, Differential Algebras.- Lectures on Random Matrices and Hall’s Fluids.- Renormalization and Renormalization Group: From the Discovery of UV Divergences to the Concept of Effective Field Theories.- Les Houches 1970: List of Participants.- Les Houches 1975: List of Participants.