Speeches of Organizers -- I. Quantum Communication and Information Theory -- Information Theoretic Interpretations of von Neumann Entropy -- Quantum Information Theory, the Entropy Bound, and Mathematical Rigor in Physics -- Classical and Quantum Information Transmission and Interactions -- Bounds of the Accessible Information under the Influence of Thermal Noise -- Techniques for Bounding Quantum Correlations -- Relation between Channel Capacity and Quantum Minimax Decision in Quantum Information Theory -- Optimum Binary Signal Detections for Error Probability and Mutual Information -- Entanglement-Enhanced Classical Communication on a Noisy Quantum Channel -- Security against Eavesdropping in Quantum Cryptography -- A Linear Programming Approach to Attainable Cramér-Rao Type Bounds -- Non-Commutative Extension of Information Geometry II -- Wavelets and Information-Preserving Transformations -- On the Realization of Received Quantum State Control by Unitary Transformation -- Properties of Quantum Cryptography Based on Orthogonal States: Goldenberg and Vaidman Scheme -- Computation of Mutual Entropy in Quantum Amplifier Processes -- II. Quantum Computing -- Quantum Computing and Decoherence in Quantum Optical Systems -- Unitary Dynamics for Quantum Codewords -- Quantum Error Correction with Imperfect Gates -- Eliminating the Effects of Spontaneous Emission in Quantum Computations with Cold Trapped Ions -- Integrability and Computability in Simulating Quantum Systems -- Slowing Down the Decoherence of Quantum Bits -- Quantum Capacity of Noisy Quantum Channel -- III. Quantum Measurement Theory and Statistical Physics -- On Covariant Instruments in Quantum Measurement Theory -- Quantum State Reduction and the Quantum Bayes Principle -- On the Quantum Theory of Direct Detection -- Homodyning as Universal Detection -- Resolutions of the Identity in Terms of Line Integrals of Coherent States and Their Use for Quantum State Engineering -- Unitary Control Process for Quantum Optimum Detection -- Quantum Zeno Effect and "Domination" of the Temporal Evolution of Quantum Systems -- Physical Interpretation of Optimum Quantum Detection Operators -- Generalised Uncertainties for Quantum Signal Processing -- Optimal Quantum Measurements for Phase Estimation in Interferometry -- Hypersensitivity to Perturbation: An Information-Theoretical Characterization of Classical and Quantum Chaos -- A Topological Approach to Phase of Quantum Chaos -- Subdynamics through Time Scales and Scattering Maps in Quantum Field Theory -- Time-Ordered Wick Exponential and Quantum Stochastic Differential Equations -- "Nonlocal" Interference Effects in Frequency Domain -- Quantum Stochastic Systems in Terms of Non-Equilibrium Thermo Field Dynamics -- Considerations in the Time-Energy Uncertainty Relation from the Viewpoint of Hypothesis Testing -- An Open System Approach to Quantum Computers -- IV. Quantum Optics -- Atom Lasers -- Measurement of Quantum Phase Distribution by Projection Synthesis -- Quantum Optical Phase -- Single-Shot Adaptive Measurements of the Phase of a Single Mode Field -- Amplitude Squeezing of the Fundamental Field by Means of Traveling-Wave Quasi-Phasematched Second-Harmonic Generation in a LiNbO3 Waveguide -- Quantum Noise Reduction of the Pump Field in an Optical Parametric Oscillator -- Optical Measurements of Weak Absorption beyond Shot-Noise Limit -- Decoherence and Relaxation of Two Strongly Coupled Spin 1/2 Atoms -- Spatial Correlation Effects in Multi-Transverse Mode Lasers -- Generation of Nonclassical Photons in a Josephson-Junction Cavity -- Polarization-Squeezed Light Generation in a Second Order Nonlinear Medium -- Reconstruction of External Forces in Quantum Noises of Parametric Measuring System with Dissipation -- Squeezed State Generation in the Process of Light Interaction with a System of Free Electrons -- Diode Structure for Generation of Sub-Poissonian Photon Fluxes by Stark-Effect Blockade of Emissions -- Control of Quantum States in Nonstationary Cavity QED Systems -- A Simulation of Pulsed Squeezing in Short Optical Fiber Loop Mirror -- Quantum Properties of the Traveling-Wave x(2) Process: Theory, Experiments, and Applications.