In the last few years, major advances have been made on topics such as lattice chiral symmetry and topology, the reduction of lattice-spacing artifacts, methods to simulate heavy quarks, the effects of quenching and the relevance of partial quenching, non-perturbative normalization of operators, the role of chiral perturbation theory in extracting hadronic quantities from lattice QCD, and the use of small-volume computations to extract infinite-volume physics. These and other ideas are currently under intensive exploration. Given recent and future increases in computer power these advances will allow more reliable calculations of hadronic quantities. One goal of this program is to provide an opportunity to take stock of the status of these new developments, as well as to assess how far they can be pushed in the near future. In addition to increasing our fundamental and quantitative understanding of strong interaction physics, reliable results for a number of hadronic quantities will be essential for interpreting results from new experiments underway at RHIC, TJNAF, DAFNE and at B-factories.

A second goal of this program is to provide a forum for the study of a number of challenging outstanding problems. Examples are the issue of how to use Euclidean simulations to extract parameters of hadronic resonances, the (related) issue of how to calculate electroweak decay amplitudes involving multiparticle final states, and the study of QCD at finite chemical potential.