Advances in Topological Quantum Field Theory: Proceedings of the NATO Adavanced Research Workshop on New Techniques in Topological Quantum Field Theory, Kananaskis Village, Canada 22 - 26 August 2001

This volume is the conference proceedings of the NATO ARW during August 2001 at Kananaskis Village, Canada on "New Techniques in Topological Quantum Field Theory". This conference brought together specialists from a number of different fields all related to Topological Quantum Field Theory. The theme of this conference was to attempt to find new methods in quantum topology from the interaction with specialists in these other fields.

The featured articles include papers by V. Vassiliev on com...