Mission: The series Geometry, Integrability and Quantization contains the proceedings on the International Conference on Geometry, Integrability and Quantization held in Varna, Bulgaria. This Conference series is organized around the general trend of application of geometrical ideas in Mechanics, Physics and Biology. The emphasis is on concrete applications and modern developments in the respective fields.

All volumes of the Proceedings series are addressed to the broad audience of mathematicians and mathematical physicists interested in contemporary mechanics, physics and biology and associated mathematical questions. The reader will find new results on manifolds, hypersurfaces, gauge fields, geometric quantization, rotational sequences, minimal surfaces, coherent states, Dirac and Seiberg-Witten monopoles, rigid body dynamics, Toda chains dynamics, etc.

Papers and Lecture Series are typically submitted by the participants and the invited lecturers. The refereeing process is carried out by the Editors of the Proceedings, the Editorial Board of Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics, and often in consultation with external reviewers to ensure the good quality of the contributions.

Indexing: The Proceedings volumes are indexed and/or abstracted in , , Mathematical Reviews, and Zentralblatt MATH.

Library Exchange: The Editors welcome exchange agreements. New and used books in the field of Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, Classical and Modern Differential Geometry are of special interest. Proposals for exchange should be sent either to the Editor in Sofia or to Mrs. Madlena Kiskinova who is a head of the respective department of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Please, inform your librarian about these volumes and urge him/her to add Proceedings of the Varna Conference to the list of subscriptions or to make a proposal for realization of the exchange scheme.

This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Geometry, Integrability and Quantization held in Varna, Bulgaria, September 1–10, 1999.
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