"Special session and international conference on moduli spaces, operads, and representation theory/operads and homotopy algebra, March 1995/May-June 1995, Hartford, Connecticut/Luminy, France."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Definitions : operads, algebras and modules / J.P. May -- The pre-history of operads / Jim Stasheff -- Operads, algebras, and modules / J.P. May -- Relating the associahedron and the permutohedron / Andy Tonks -- Combinatorial models for real configuration spaces and E[subscript n]-operads / Clemens Berger -- From operads to 'physically' inspired theories / Jim Stasheff -- Opérades des algébres (k+1)-aires / Allahtan Victor Gnedbaye -- Coproduct and cogroups in the category of graded dual Leibniz algebras / Jean-Michel Oudom -- Cohomology of monoids in monoidal categories / Hans-Joachim Baues, Mamuka Jibladze, and Andy Tonks -- Distributive laws, bialgebras, and cohomology / Thomas F. Fox and Martin Markl -- Deformations of algebras over a quadratic operad / David Balavoine -- Q-rings and the homology of the symmetric groups / Terrence P. Bisson and André Joyal -- Operadic tensor products and smash products / J.P. May -- Homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras and topological field theory / Takashi Kimura, Alexander A. Voronov, and Gregg J. Zuckerman -- Intertwining operator algebras, genus-zero modular functors, and genus-zero conformal field theories / Yi-Zhi Huang

Includes one contribution in French.