Topology of Strongly Correlated Systems 2nd. Circular ``Topology of Strongly Correlated Systems'' continues the sequence of a series of other schools that have been held in Lisbon, Portugal, on several topics since 1979 . The XVIII Autumn School will take place from Sunday October 8 to Friday October 13. It intends to bring together physicists from different areas ranging from QCD to Condensed Matter. We feel that this subject will be of ever growing importance in the coming years. Traditionally, in this series of schools there is a small group of invited speakers that give an introduction to the main ideas in the field. These should be presented at a level that a graduate student may follow in a series of typically three lectures of one hour each, developing the topic to the present status of knowledge. Since the subject chosen for this school is of wide interest we intend also to invite speakers to give either an one hour or an half an hour account of their research. A workshop constituted by talks from participants will also take place. This includes young researchers. The proceedings of the lectures and talks will be published. Topics to be covered are: Anomalies, Physical Charges, Chiral Symmetry, Vortices (Superconductivity, Solitons, Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions), Non-trivial Topology on the Lattice, Confinement (Wilson Loops and Strings, Instantons, Abelian Higgs Model, Dual QCD). The list of invited lecturers and speakers is, J. Ambjorn, Niels Bohr Inst. M. Baker, Univ. Washington L. Bettencourt, Los Alamos Lab. N. Brambilla, ITP, Vienna G. 't Hooft, ITP, Univ. Utrecht H. Neuberger Rutgers Univ. M. I. Polikarpov ITEP Moscow A. Sudboe Trondheim Univ. Z. Tesanovic Johns Hopkins Univ. D. J. Thouless Univ. Washington G. E. Volovik Landau Inst. / Helsinky Univ. P. B. Wiegmann Univ. Chicago J. Zinn-Justin Saclay This school has a fee of 300 Euro for senior participants and of 150 Euro for students. I includes the proceedings, the social program and the coffee breaks. The social program consists of a reception, a sight seeing tour, and the school dinner. The deadlines are: - 31th of May 2000 for the registration - 30th of June 2000 to reserve the accommodation - 31st of July 2000 for the submission of abstracts The deadline for the registration is the 31th of May 2000. The number of participants is restricted to 60. The deadline for the accommodation registration is the 30th of June 2000. Participants should reserve the accommodation directly through the travel agency Viagens Abreu, SA. The contact person is Mrs Helena Desiderio, and the email is, hdesiderio.lisboa@abreu.pt and will supply on request the accommodation form, and information about the hotel price ranges. Please bear also in mind that if you want to present your work, you should submit an abstract before the deadline of the 31st of July 2000. The organizing committee is, Pedro Bicudo CFIF, IST J. Emilio Ribeiro CFIF, IST Pedro D. Sacramento CFIF, IST Joao Seixas CFIF, IST Vitor Rocha Vieira. CFIF, IST We would be very thankful if you could forward this circular to other potential participants. We enclose the application form that should be sent to, xviiischool@cfif.ist.utl.pt . Please update your information directly at the homepage http://cfif.ist.utl.pt/xviiischool/ . -------------Application form------------------------- Topology of Strongly Correlated Systems XVIII Autumn School, 8-13 October 2000 Name:.................................................................... Affiliation:.............................................................. Address:.................................................................. ......................................................................... E-mail Address:........................................................ Telephone:............................ Fax:................................. Arrival Date & Time:...................................................... Departure Date & Time:.................................................... Do you intend to present your work?...................................... Abstract title:............................................................ Abstract:................................................................. .......................................................................... .......................................................................... .......................................................................... .......................................................................... .......................................................................... .......................................................................... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------