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Contents: Notes on Subfactors and Statistical Mechanics (V F R Jones) Polynomial Invariants in Knot Theory (L H Kauffman) Algebras of Loops on Surfaces, Algebras of Knots, and Quantization (V G Turaev) Quantum Groups (L Faddeev et al.) Introduction to the Yang-Baxter Equation (M Jimbo) Integrable Systems Related to Braid Groups and Yang-Baxter Equation (T Kohno) The Yang-Baxter Relation: A New Tool for Knot Theory (Y Akutsu et al.) Akutsu-Wadati Link Polynomials from Feynman-Kauffman Diagrams (M-L Ge et al.) Quantum Field Theory and the Jones Polynomial (E Witten) Readership: Mathematical physicists.