Topology Of Strongly Correlated Systems, Procs Of The Xviii Lisbon Autumn School

Vortices in Superfluids and Superconductors, and Topological Defects in Other Materials (D J Thouless); Interplay of Real Space and Momentum Space Topologies in strongly correlated fermionic systems, G.E. Volovik; topological excitations and second order transitions in 3D O(N) models, L.M.A. Bettencourt; quantum numbers of solitons and theta-terms in nonlinear sigma-models, P.B. Wiegmann; center vortices in continuum Yang-Mills theory, H. Reinhardt and M. Engelhardt; monopoles and confining strings in QCD, M.N. Chernodub et al; effective string theory of vortices and Regge trajectories of hybrid mesons with zero mass quarks, M. Baker and R. Steinke; the regularization problem and anomalies in quantum field theory, J. Zinn-Justin; regulated chiral gauge theory, H. Neuberger; probing the QCD vacuum, N. Brambilla; pointlike Hopf defects in Abelian projections, F. Bruckmann; on the topological susceptibility in Abelian-projected SU(2) gluodynamics, S. Kato; and other papers.