  Contents:
  (1) Model of a lateral quantum dot system
  (2) Thermally-activated conduction: onset of the Coulomb blockade
oscillations and Coulomb blockade peaks at low temperature
  (3) Activationless transport through a blockaded quantum dot: inelastic and
elastic co-tunneling
  (4) Kondo regime in transport through a quantum dot: effective low-energy
Hamiltonian; linear response; weak coupling regime; strong coupling regime;
beyond linear response; splitting of the Kondo peak in a magnetic field; Kondo
effect in quantum dots with large spin.
