Abstract : This effort supported a Quantum Information Workshop at the University of California, Berkeley. After a cut in funding, the remaining unspent funding was used to support: (I) research related to the internet involving the interplay between mechanism design and computational complexity, (2) improved understanding of the connections between phase transitions in statistical mechanics and mixing times of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, and (3) an investigation of the logic of transcriptional control of various model organisms, with emphasis on characterizing the binding sites of key transcription factors via stochastic models.