During the week of 1-6 June 1998, eminent theoretical and experimental physicists interested in the most recent quantum chromodynamics research gathered at the American University of Paris, France, to present and discuss a total of 66 papers covering an extensive range of topics.
Diffractive production and the Pomeron; high energy scattering and the Pomeron; thermal and other fluctuations; hadron physics; strings, branes and dualities; conventional and unconventional QCD; media effects in scattering; media effects, statistics and spin correlations in QCD; lattice methods; lattice methods and QCD theory; new gauge-invariant methods in QCD/QFT.