This volume contains the Proceedings of the Workshop "Physics and Combinatorics" held at the Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University, Japan, during August 21-26, 2000. The workshop organizing committee consisted of Kazuhiko Aomoto, Fumiyasu Hirashita, Anatol Kirillov, Ryoichi Kobayashi, Akihiro Tsuchiya, and Hiroshi Umemura.