[en] The enclosed Progress Report covers 2 1/2 years under the Department of Energy contract number-sign DE-FG02-86ER13480-A0001. During this period of time, a number of closely interrelated topics were pursued in the general area of molecular dynamics and chemical kinetics. One prevailing theme of this research has concerned studies to reveal the interrelationship between input-output information at various levels of dynamics and kinetics. Exploration of this basic issue has lead to the author continuing development and implementation of sensitivity analysis techniques. The theoretical tools involved have been illustrated for numerous chemical/physical systems revealing a number of interesting and, in some cases, unusual relations between laboratory observables and underlying fundamental input information. The research summary below consists of abstracts from papers and manuscripts that were supported under this contract. 27 refs