Recent Trends in Combinatorics

This collection of surveys and research papers on recent topics of interest in combinatorics is dedicated to Paul Erds who attended the conference and who is represented by two articles in the collection including one unfinished which he was writing on the eve of his sudden death. Erds was one of the greatest mathematicians of his century and often the subject of anecdotes about his somewhat unusual lifestyle. A new preface written by friends and colleagues gives a flavor of his life including many such stories and also describes the broad outline and importance of his work in combinatorics and other related fields.