Based on a conference held in Trento, Italy, and sponsored by the Centro Internazionale per la Ricera Matematica, this work presents advances in several complex variables and related topics such as transcendental algebraic geometry, infinite dimensional supermanifolds, and foliations. It covers the unfoldings of singularities, Levi foliations, Cauchy-Reimann manifolds, infinite dimensional supermanifolds, conformal structures, algebraic groups, instantons and more.