Recent developments of computational approaches in condensed matter physics are reviewed in terms of various interesting results and improvements in methodology and algorithms, revealing the relationships between different fields.

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I First Principles Calculations.- First Principles Methods for Correlated Ground States of Solids.- Computational Physics Approach to Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy.- Electronic Structures of Fullerenes and Fullerides.- Structure Optimization and Dynamics of Fine Particles in LCAO Methods.- Electronic Structures of Hetero-Crystalline Semiconductor Superlattices.- An Application of the Car-Parrinello Method to a Study of Alkali-Metal Adsorbed Si(001) Surface.- Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of the Si(001) Surface.- Traditional and Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations Applications to Glass Transition and Amorphous SiH.- II Strongly Correlated Electron Systems.- Projection Monte Carlo Method and Choice of the Optimal Trial Wavefunction.- Simulation Method for Strongly Correlated Systems and Its Applications.- Recent Progress in the Auxiliary-Field Many-Fermion Simulation Method.- S-Wave Superconductivity in the t J Model with Two Planes.- Calculation of Excitation Spectra Based on the Numerical Renormalization Group Method.- Real Space Numerical Renormalization Groups for Hubbard Models.- Bayesian Methods, Maximum Entropy, and Quantum Monte Carlo.- Anyons on a Lattice.- Ground State Wave Function of an Extended Hubbard Model.- Numerical Study on the t-t?J-J? Model.- Random Magnetic Field and Anderson Localization.- Numerical Studies of Models with Suhl-Kondo Pair Transfer Interaction.- III Quantum Spin Systems and Others.- Numerical Methods for Quantum Spin Systems.- Quantum Effects in Random Spin Systems.- Numerical Calculations of S=1 Heisenberg Antiferromagnetic Chain.- Frustrated Quantum Antiferromagnets in Two Dimensions.- Symmetry Breaking in a Quantum Double-Well Chain.- Numerical Experiments on Frustrated Quantum SpinSystems.- Haldane Antiferromagnet in a Magnetic Field.- Spin Correlations in the S=1 XXZ Chain.- Crossover Between the Haldane Gap Phase and the Dimer Phase in the Spin 1/2 Alternating Heisenberg Chain.- Ground-State Properties of the Frustrated One-Dimensional S=1 Heisenberg Model.- Numerical Study of Quantum Spin Systems.- The Ground State of Frustrated Quantum Spin Systems and the Marshall Condition.- Ground State of the Two-Dimensional Square-Lattice Antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinski-Moriya Interaction.- IV Critical Phenomena.- Numerical CAM Analysis of Critical Phenomena in Spin Systems.- Monte Carlo Study of the Random Potts Model.- Coherent-Anomaly Method in Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Ising Models on Square and Triangular Lattices.- Spin Ordering Property of a System with Nearly Degenerate Stable States.- V Spin Glasses.- Spin Glasses: Results from Numerical Simulations.- A Hybrid Monte-Carlo Spin-Dynamics Method and Its Applications to the ±J Heisenberg Models in Three Dimensions.- Chiral Order in Vector Spin Glasses.- Simulation of Models for Isotropic and Anisotropic Orientational Glasses.- The Phase Diagram of the Three-Dimensional ±J-Ising Spin Glass Model.- Phase Diagram and Ordered Phase of the ±J Model by the Interfacial Method.- Replica Optimization Method for Ground-State Search of Random Spin-Systems.- Anomalous Phase in the 2D EA Ising Spin Glass.- AC Susceptibility of the Three-Dimensional ±J Ising Model.- VI Other Complex Systems.- Monte Carlo Simulation of Polymeric Materials Still a Challenge?.- Simulating Spatiotemporal Chaos with Coupled Map Lattices.- Dynamical Behavior of Thermostated Harmonic Oscillators.- Computer Simulation of High Density Amorphous Ice.- Statistical Mechanics of Polymer Networks.- Studies on MetastableStates by Ising Machine m-TIS2.- Raman Correlation Function of Percolating Networks.- Dynamics of Charge Density Wave Systems with Multidomain Structure.- VII Computer Facilities.- Computational Physics on Connection Machine Supercomputers.- Ising Machine m-TIS2.- Index of Contributors.