"The Workshop on Frontiers of Field Theory, Quantum Gravity and Strings was held at Puri from December 12 to 21, 1996 at the Sterling Resorts."

"Dedicated to the memories of Professor Abdus Salam."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Tribute to Abdus Salam / M. J. Duff -- New Era of String Theories / R. Ramachandran -- A Large-N Reduced Model as Superstring / Nobuyuki Ishibashi, Hikaru Kawai and Yoshihisa Kitazawa [et al.] -- Bringing Up a Quantum Baby / A. P. Balachandran -- Chern-Simons Theory, Knot Invariants, Vertex Models and Three-manifold Invariants / Romesh K. Kaul -- Duality and Topological Quantum Field Theory / J. M. F. Labastida and M. Marino -- 2d Gravity: A Progress Report / Jan Ambjorn -- On Finite Size Effects in d=2 Quantum Gravity / N. D. Hari Dass -- Graviton-Dilaton Cosmology / S. Kalyana Rama -- String Cosmology and O(d,d) Symmetry / Jnanadeva Maharana -- Space-Time Gravitational Physics of 2-Dimensional String Theory from the C=1 Matrix Model / Avinash Dhar -- Loop Variables and Gauge Invariant Interactions in String Theory / B. Sathiapalan -- Projective Structure and the Sugawara Representation / A. K. Raina -- Punctures in W-string theory / Suresh Govindarajan -- Orientifolds: The Unique Personality of each Spacetime Dimension / Sunil Mukhi -- Non-Perturbative Description of Orientifolds / Ashoke Sen -- U-Orbifolds and F-Theory / Alok Kumar -- Black Hole Absorption and T-Asymmetry From Strings / G. Mandal -- Black holes, Strings and Domain walls as Intersecting D-branes / Sudhakar Panda -- Why d-Branes Behave as Black Holes / Sumit R. Das -- Gyromagnetic Ratios of Black Holes and String States / M. J. Duff -- Entropy of Extremal Black Holes / P. Mitra -- On The Black Hole Unitarity Issue / Francois Englert -- Renormalization Group Fixed Points and Connections with Duality in Various Dimensions / Kenneth Intriligator -- Solution of the non-Abelian Gauss law and duality transformation for 3+1-d Yang-Mills theory / H. S. Sharatchandra -- Exact Solution For a Class of Calogero-Sutherland Type N-body Problems / Avinash Khare.