Contents:

• Higher Dimensional Chern–Simons Theories and Topological Black Holes (M Bañados)
• Wormholes on the World Volume: Born–Infeld Particles and Dirichlet p-Branes (G W Gibbons)
• Evaporation of Primordial Black Holes (S W Hawking)
• Fermion Models and Chern–Simons Theories (F A Schaposnik)
• Uniqueness of D = 11 Supergravity (S Deser)
• Probing Black Holes and Relativistic Stars with Gravitational Waves (K S Thorne)
• Chern–Simons Supergravities with Off-Shell Local Superalgebras (R Troncoso & J Zanelli)