This proceedings is composed of the papers resulting from the NATO
work-shop "Perspectives in Ring Theory" and the work-shop "Geometry and
Invariant The- ory of Representations of Quivers" . Three reports on
problem sessions have been induced in the part corresponding to the
work-shop where they belonged. One more report on a problem session, the
"lost" problem session, will be published elsewhere eventually. vii
Acknowledgement The meeting became possible by the financial support of
the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO. The people at this division
have been very helpful in the orga- nization of the meeting, in
particular we commemorate Dr. Mario di Lullo, who died unexpectedly last
year, but who has been very helpful with the organization of earlier
meetings in Ring Theory. For additional financial support we thank the
national foundation for scientific research (NFWO), the rector of the
University of Antwerp, UIA, and the Belgian Ministry of Education. We
also gladly acknowledge support from the Belgian Friends of the Hebrew
University and the chairman Prof. P. Van Remoortere who honored Prof. S.
Amitsur for his continuous contributions to the mathematical activities
at the University of Antwerp. I thank the authors who contributed their
paper(s) to this proceedings and the lecturers for their undisposable
contributions towards the success of the work-shop. Finally I thank
Danielle for allowing me to spoil another holiday period in favor of a
congress.