Nuclear matter approach to the nucleon-nucleus optical model -- Nuclear structure approach to the nucleon-nucleus optical model -- On the general theory of the nucleon optical potential -- Nucleon scattering from nuclei with nuclear matter t-matrices -- Effective nuclear matter interactions applied to finite nuclei -- Effects of particle-vibration coupling on the hartree-fock potential -- The isospin dependence of the non-local optical potential -- Shell model description of the optical model potential -- Three-body Bethe-Faddeev equations and single-particle potentials in nuclei -- The imaginary part of the nuclear optical potential and inelastic form factor -- Folding description of elastic and inelastic scattering -- A new type of parameter systematics for proton-nucleus scattering -- L-dependent optical potentials: What experiment tells us about local density models -- Microscopic analysis of p-40Ca elastic scattering at 30.3 MeV -- A semi-phenomenological analysis of proton elastic scattering -- Prominent features of proton elastic scattering on nuclei below A=70 at incident energies between 10 and 50 MeV -- Optical model proton parameters at subcoulomb energies -- A new technique for measuring ratios of elastic scattering cross sections: An application to the calcium isotopes -- Propagation of a deuteron in nuclear matter and the spin dependence of the deuteron optical potential -- Description of low energy deuteron scattering using multishell form factors -- Deuteron and 3He scattering: Discussion on the uniqueness of their optical potentials -- The form of the spin-orbit potential for spin-1/2 particles -- Polarization effects in elastic scattering of 3He -- Sensitivity of alpha-decay to the real alpha-nucleus potential -- The effective surface potential for ? particles and its OCM justifications -- Fourier-bessel-analysis of alpha-particle scattering optical potentials and nuclear matter densities -- Validity of refined folding model approaches for light projectile scattering -- Energy dependence of the phenomenological ?-90Zr optical potential -- Accurate optical potentials for elastic ?-particle scattering from nuclei around A=40 -- High energy alpha scattering used to study the uniqueness and shape of the optical potential -- Odd-even dependence of the optical potential -- The imaginary part of the heavy ion optical potential -- Heavy ion folding potentials -- A microscopic nucleus-nucleus optical potential -- Long range absorption and other direct reaction components in the optical potential -- Adiabatic and dynamic polarization effects in subcoulomb elastic scattering -- Optical models from experiments with oriented heavy ions -- Molecular states in heavy ion potentials -- Quantum corrections to optical potentials -- The optical model in atomic physics -- The kaon-nucleus optical potential for kaonic atoms -- Summary.