Transport description of heavy-ion reactions

These three lectures are based on the authors review paper Transport Theories of Heavy-Ion Reactions (Preprint MP1 4-1978-V29). The first lecture contains a macroscopic description of deeply-inelastic heavy-ion collisions in terms of transport equations and gives a phenomenological introduction to the use of Fokker-Planck equations. The second discusses the validity of the use of transport equations in nuclei in terms of characteristic time scales and the third gives a summary of various approaches to calculate transport coefficients in the nuclear context. (U.K.)