This symposium is intended to provide a forum for theorists and experimentalists to meet and discuss topics of current interest The topics will include: Diffractive physics and low-x phenomena at the Tevatron and HERA  production of jets at LEP/SLD  heavy-ion physics with an emphasis on the expectations for RHIC  physics at the LHC  and the interface between the results from high energy collisions and cosmic-ray/astrophysics