Recent Trends in Combinatorics: The Legacy of Paul ErdősThis collection of surveys and research papers on recent topics of interest in combinatorics is dedicated to Paul Erd s, who attended the conference and who is represented by two articles in the collection, including one, unfinished, which he was writing on the eve of his sudden death. Erd s was one of the greatest mathematicians of his century and often the subject of anecdotes about his somewhat unusual lifestyle. A new preface, written by friends