Semi-stable curves and fundamental groups in geometry and algebra. Proceedings of a conference, CIRM, Luminy, France, November 30--December 4, 1998 (Q1571783)

1. Rigid geometry and algebraic geometry (by M. A. Garuti), 2. Ultrametric discs and annuli (by Y. Henrio), 3. The Picard functor (by U. T. Hartl), 4. Moduli of stable curves (by D. Mauger), 5. Semi-stable reduction of curves after Artin, Deligne, Grothendieck, Mumford, Saito, Winters,\dots (by A. Abbes), 6. Mumford-Tate curves (by Th. Schmechta), 7. Uniformisation of Shimura curves by the \(p\)-adic upper half plane (by K. Künnemann), 8. The theorem of Gabber-Lütkebohmert (by F. Loeser), 9. Fundamental group (by A. Mézard), 10. Construction of covers with formal and rigid geometry (by R. J. Pries), 11. The specialization theorem for the fundamental group (by F. Orgogozo and I. Vidal), 12. The theorem of Tamagawa. I (by T. Szamuely), 13. The theorem of Tamagawa. II (by D. Harari), 14. The wild fundamental group of an affine curve in positive characteric (by Ph. Gille), 15. The Abhyankar conjecture. I: Construction of coverings in rigid geometry (by A. Chambert-Loir), 16. The Abhyankar conjecture II: The use of semi-stable curves (by M. Saïdi), 17. The \(p\)-rank of curves and covers of curves (by I. Bouw), 8. Theta divisors and the Frobenius morphism (by D.A. Madore). All these paper will be reviewed individually.