I. Summary
II. Structure, Bonding and New Systems
1. Synthesis and Fabrication
a) Bulk
b) Thin films
c) Doping in the Cuprate Superconductors
2. Other Topics of Interest:
a) Applied pressure
b) Spin, lattice, and charge correlations
3. Conclusion
III. Electronic structure and quasiparticle dynamics
1. Techniques
a) Electron Tunneling
b) Angular Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES)
c) Infrared Spectroscopy
2. Magnetism, Competing Order, and Phonons
a) Magnetism and Spin Fluctuations
b) Competing Orders
c) Phonons and Electron-Phonon Interactions
IV. Vortices
1. Single Vortex Physics
a) Confinement
b) Pseudovortices and Vortex Core States
c) Hybrid Materials
2. Multivortex Physics
a) Disordered Glassy and Liquid States
b) Dynamic Phases
c) Josephson Vortices and Crossing Lattices
3. Instrumentation
V. Proximity and Interface Effects
VI. Nonequilibrium Effects
VII. Theory
1. Preamble
2. Phenomenological Approach
a) Status
b) Key issues and opportunities
3. Numerical Studies of Hubbard and t-J Models
a) Status
b) Key issues and opportunities
4. Electronic Structure
a) Status
b) Key issues and opportunities
Defects and Microstructure with an Eye to Applications
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