Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Monodromy groups of coverings of curves Robert Guralnik; 2. On the tame fundamental groups of curves over algebraically closed fields of characteristic > 0 Akio Tamagawa; 3. On the specialization homomorphism of fundamental groups of curves in positive characteristic Florian Pop and Mohamed Saïdi; 4. Topics surrounding the anabelian geometry of hyperbolic curves Shinichi Mochizuki; 5. Monodromy of elliptic surfaces Fedor Bogomolov and Yuri Tschinkel; 6. Tannakian fundamental groups associated to Galois groups Richard Hain and Makoto Matsumoto; 7. Special loci in moduli spaces of curves Leila Schneps; 8. Cellulation of compactified Hurwitz spaces Michel Imbert; 9. Patching and Galois theory David Harbater; 10. Constructive differential Galois theory B. Heinrich Matzat and Marius van der Put.

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This book contains eight expository articles by well-known authors on the theory of Galois groups and fundamental groups.