Strong Correlation and Superconductivity

I Overview.- Myth and Reality in High-Tc Superconductivity.- II Theory.- Recent Advances in the Stability and Properties of Commensurate Flux Phases.- U(1) Gauge Field, t'-J Model and Superconductivity.- Spectroscopic and Theoretical Estimates of Parameters in Model Hamiltonians Describing the High and Low Energy Scale Physics of Doped CuO2 Planes.- Effective Hamiltonian for High-Tc Cu Oxides.- The Madelung Energy of Cu-O Based Compounds.- Electronic Properties in the Cu-Oxide Superconductors.- Core-Level Spectroscopy in High-Tc Superconducting Materials.- Dispersive Single-Particle Excitations in Strongly Correlated Two-Dimensional Systems.- Magnetism and Superconductivity in Strongly Correlated Systems in One and Two Dimensions.- Characteristics of the Charged Hole in the One-Dimensional Mott Insulator.- On the Application of Projection Techniques to the Electron Correlation Problem.- Slave-Fermion Mean Field Theory of the Hubbard Model.- Disorder and Interactions in the Hubbard Model.- Characteristic Features of Electronic States in High-Tc Superconducting Oxides.- Anderson Lattice Model of High-Tc Superconductors.- Quasi-Particles in the Degenerate Lattice Anderson Model.- Experimental Constraints and Theory of Layered High-Tc Superconductors.- III Experiments.- Physical Properties of High-Tc Oxide Superconductors - Effect of Doping on the Electronic State.- Andreev Reflection, Thermal Conductivity, Torque Magnetometry, and Hall Effect Studies on High-Tc Systems.- Resistive State and Hall Effect in High-Tc Superconductors.- Raman Probing of Electronic Gap Excitations and Their Coupling to Phonons in High-Tc Superconductors.- Magnetic Correlations in High-Tc Oxides in the Superconducting State.- NMR Studies of YBa2Cu3O7?? (Tc = 90 K).- NMR and NQR in Highly Correlated Metallic and Superconducting Cu Oxides.- NMR Study of High-Tc Superconductors.- Tunneling Spectroscopy and Energy Gap of High-Tc Oxide Superconductors.- Optical Absorption in La2?xSrxCuO4 Epitaxial Thin Films.- Infrared Studies of Oxide Superconductors in the Normal and Superconducting States.- Nature of the Electronic States Near the Fermi Level in High-Tc Superconductors: High-Energy Spectroscopic Evidence.- Photoemission, Inverse Photoemission and X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopies of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8.- A New Family of High-Tc Superconductors: (Ln1?xCex)2(Ba1?yLny)2Cu3O10?z (Ln: Nd, Sm, Eu and Gd).- Magnetic Interactions in High-Tc Superconductors and Related Oxides.- Physical Properties of (Ba,K)BiO3.- Flux Creep and the Crossover to Flux Flow in the Resistivity of High-Tc Superconductors.- Giant Fluctuation Model and the Field-Induced Broadening of the Superconducting Transition in Oxides.- Flux Dynamics and Electronic Anisotropy in High-Tc Superconductors.- IV Summary.- Summary Talk: Experimental.- Summary Talk: Theory.- V Abstracts.- Recent Numerical Results on the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model.- Valence Bond and Spin-Peierls Ground States of Low-Dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnets.- Holes in Copper Oxides: Where Are They? How Do They Conduct? How Do They Affect Superconductivity?.- Optical Excitations in CuO2 Sheets With and Without Electron Doping: Relevance to Superconductivity Produced by Electron Doping.- Experimental Observations on Superconducting Single Crystals.- Index of Contributors.