Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories Held at Odenthal-Altenberg, Germany August 29 – September 3, 1983 / edited by H. Kümmel, M. L. Ristig.

Quark clusters in nuclei -- Stochastic solution of nuclear models having sub-nuclear degrees of freedom -- Coupled-cluster theory of pions in nuclear matter and the EMC effect -- ?-Excitations and many-body theory of nuclear matter -- Random walk in fock space -- Nuclear matter properties in the BHF approximation with the Paris N-N potential and models of 3n interactions -- Three-body forces, relativistic effects, isobars and pions in nuclear systems -- Properties of matter in stellar collapse -- Hydrodynamics of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions -- Variational treatment of ?°-condensed neutron matter in a realistic potential model -- Proton mixing in neutron star matter under ?° condensation -- Tensor forces and the Fermi liquid properties of nuclear matter -- The effective mass in nuclear matter and in nuclei -- Deformations and correlations in nuclei -- Correlated pairs near the fermi surface -- Effective interactions and elementary excitations in electron and Helium liquids -- Old dogs and new tricks: Beyond the ground state with CBF theory -- Solution of the Ornstein-Zernike equation for non-uniform systems -- Jastrow-Slater trial energy for the low density hard sphere fermi gas -- Variational Monte Carlo approach on atomic impurities in 4He -- Density-fluctuation spectra of 3He-HeII mixtures at T=0 K -- Quantum-mechanical calculations of the properties of liquid He droplets -- Variational approach to two-component coulomb liquids -- Spin polarized 3He -- The properties of pauli enhanced normal Fermi liquids in finite magnetic fields -- Linear and non linear response -- Correlations and the possibility of a charge-density-wave (CDW) instability in quantum electron liquids -- CBF theory of metal surfaces: Chemisorption -- Melting of electrons on corrugated surfaces—structural and dynamical properties in liquid and solid phases -- Correlations in the layered electron-hole liquid -- Dense coulomb plasmas: Quantum statistics and ordering -- A conserving dynamic theory for the electron gas in metallic systems -- What present theory of superconductivity needs from many-body physicists -- Coupled cluster equations for superconducting systems -- Coupled cluster approach with explicitly correlated cluster functions -- Perturbation theory in a correlated basis -- Recent developments in a correlated theory of linear response -- Sum rules and a coupled cluster formulation of linear response theory -- Variational EXP S methods -- Computational quantum mechanics and the basis set problem -- Parquet perturbed -- Crossing symmetric rings, ladders, and exchanges -- New perturbation scheme for quantum fluids based on low-density expansions -- A direct access to many-body perturbation theory -- Beyond the Thomas-Fermi-Weizsäcker-Dirac theory of electronic structure -- The closed time-path Green's function formalism in many-body theory -- Monte Carlo evaluations in finite fermionic systems -- Application of Green's function Monte Carlo to one-dimensional lattice fermions -- On the inverse problem in many body systems: From correlations to distribution function -- The interpolating equations method in quantum fluids -- Third International Conference on recent progress in many-body theories summary talk.