This book originates in a conference on "Fractal Geometry and Stochas-
tics" held at Finsterbergen, Germany, from June 12-18, 1994. Considering the
growing importance of probabilistic methods and models in fractal geometry we
wanted to provide a forum for discussions and exchange among scientists inter-
interested in the subject when we organized the conference. We invited twelve out-
outstanding mathematicians as main speakers. Their contributions were intended
to cover the principal directions of research in the area and are collected, with
one exception, in the present volume.
More than 90 mathematicians from Belgium, France, Finland, Germany,
Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, Spain and the USA attended
the conference. Most of them gave talks on their current research. Unfortu-
Unfortunately, the limitation in size made it impossible to include all those interesting
results in this book.
We would like to thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for their
financial support which allowed us to organize the conference.