about ten years ago, v.d. goppa found a surprising connection between the theory of algebraic curves over a finite field and error-correcting codes. the aim of the meeting algebraic geometry and coding theory was to give a survey on the present state of research in this field and related topics. the proceedings contain research papers on several aspects of the theory, among them: codes constructed from special curves and from higher-dimensional varieties, decoding of algebraic geometric codes, trace codes, exponen- tial sums, fast multiplication in finite fields, asymptotic number of points on algebraic curves, sphere packings.