This volume contains the papers presented at the IUTAM Symposium on Geometry and Statistics of Turbulence, held in November 1999, at the Shonan International Village Center, Hayama (Kanagawa-ken), Japan. The Symposium was proposed in 1996, aiming at organizing concen- trated discussions on current understanding of fluid turbulence with empha- sis on the statistics and the underlying geometric structures. The decision of the General Assembly of International...