Stark's Conjectures: Recent Work and New Directions

From the more than 30 lectures from this conference of August 2002 come these ten articles that build on aspects of Harold Tate's 1984 book on Stark's conjecture and more recent work on the subject. Contributors, including both Stark (on "The derivative of p-adic Dirichlet series at s=0") and Tate (on "Refining Gross's conjecture on the values of a