The Hiroshima Workshop on Transport and Thermal Properties of f-Electron Systems, T2PfS, was held in the hotel Greenpia Yasuura on the shores of the Seto Inland Sea near Hiroshima, Japan from August 30, to September 2, 1992, as a satellite meeting of the International Conference of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems in Sendai. The purpose of this workshop was to bring together those scientists who are actively involved in the research of 4f- and 5f-electron systems; particularly the transport and thermal properties such as electrical resistivity, Hall effect, thermoelectric power, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion and specific heat. Hence, the organizing committee limited the number of participants to 60; 25 from abroad and 35 from Japan. In the workshop, all the sessions consisted of oral presentations; 25 invited talks and 5 contributed talks, including at least 10 minutes of discussion for each presentation. The program was divided into the following five topics: [1] Kondo-lattice semiconductors, [2] superconductivity of f-electron systems, [3] anomalous transport and thermal properties of 4f- and 5f-compounds, [4] low-carrier heavy-electron systems and [5] theoretical investigation of heavy-electron and mixed-valence states. This division of topics has been retained in the organization of papers in this volume. Almost all of the invited and contributed papers are included. These papers include excellent reviews of both the recent advances and historical background of each topic. We believe this book would be a tutorial text for researchers working in the field of solid state physics.

Kondo Semiconductors: Kondo Semiconductor CeNiSn (T. Takabatake et al.). Non Fermi-Liquid Ground State in the Heavy Fermion Compounds (F.G. Aliev). 4f and 5f Compounds: Specific Heat of Some Uranium Based Ternary Compounds (T. Fujita et al.). Magnetic Ordering of 122 U and Ce Intermetallic Compounds Described Via an fd Hybridization Model (J.A. Mydosh et al.). Supercoductivity of f electron Systems: Transport and Thermal Properties of Some Selected Heavy Fermion Materials (A. de Visser). Thermal Properties of Heavy Fermion Superconductors (J.P. Brison et al.). Theory: The Ground State of the One Dimensional Kondo Lattice Model (M. Sigrist et al.). Anisotropic Transport Properties of Cerium Kondo Compounds (A.K. Bhattacharjee et al.). Short Presentations: Specific Heat in a Low Carrier Concentration Compound (N. Sato et al.). 23 additional articles. Index.