The Interacting Boson Model. - Status of Experimental Tests of the IBA. - Structure of the IBA-1 Effective Hamiltonian in the Z=50?82 Proton Shell. - Collective Features in Light Nuclei. - The Level Structure of 156Gd. - Recent IBA-2 Calculations: A Theoretical Study of the Tungsten Isotopes. - Do We Really Understand the Pt Isotopes ?. - E2 Matrix Elements and Shape Coexistence in 110Pd. - Evidence of the Finite Boson Number from Lifetime Measurements in 78Kr and 79Rb. - A Shell Model Study of the Proton-Neutron Interacting Boson Model. - The Ginocchio Model and the Interacting Boson Approximation. - Microscopic Structure of the Intrinsic State of a Deformed Nucleus. - Intruder States in the Interacting Boson Model. - On the Renormalization of the IBA by the g Boson. - Boson Cutoff and Band Crossing. - Two-Neutron Transfer in Pt and Os Nuclei and the IBA. - A Test of the Interacting Boson Model Using Pion-Nucleus Inelastic Scattering. - Geometric and Dynamical Properties of the Interacting Boson Model. - Shapes and Shape Phase Transitions in the Interacting Boson Model. - The Relationship between the Bohr Collective Model and the Interacting Boson Model. - A General Formula for the Classical Limit of the Interacting Boson Hamiltonian. - Are Bosons Nucleon Pairs?. - Nuclear Field Theory: Exact Theory or Science Fiction?. - Applications of the Nuclear Field Theory Treatment of the Pair Aligned Model. - Dyson's Finite Boson Expansion and the Interacting Boson Model. - The Particle-Vibration Coupling Mechanism. - Nuclear Structure Inferred from Heavy Ion Coulomb Excitation. - A Consideration of Band Structure in Terms of Energy Expansion Coefficients. - On the Problem of Phase Transitions in Nuclear Structure. - The Interacting Boson-Fermion Model. - Present Status of the InteractingBoson-Fermion Model. - The Interacting Boson Fermion Model and Some Applications. - Description of Odd Medium Mass Nuclei in the Interacting Boson-Fermion Model. - ODD-A Eu Isotopes and the Interacting Boson-Fermion Model. - Unique Parity States in 109Pd as a Test of Particle-Rotor and IBFA Models. - Interacting Boson-Fermion Model of Collective States in the Odd-Gold Nuclei. - Shell Model Origin of the Fermion-Boson Exchange Interaction. - On the Boson-Fermion Interaction. - Approximate Diagonalization of the Pairing Plus Quadrupole Hamiltonian in the Framework of the Nuclear Field Theory. ODD-A Nuclei. - Bose-Fermi Symmetries in Nuclei. - Dynamical Supersymmetries and the Positive Parity States in the Odd-Gold Isotopes. - Tests of Dynamical Supersymmetries Via Charged Particle Transfer Reactions. - Concluding Remarks. Language: English