The Renormalization Group Approach – From Fermi Liquids to Quantum Dots (R. Shankar) -- Semiconductor Few-Electron Quantum Dots as Spin Qubits (J.M. Elzerman et al.) -- Low-Temperature Conduction of a Quantum Dot (M. Pustilnik and L. Glazman) -- Andreev Billiards (C.W.J. Beenakker).Quantum dots, often denoted artificial atoms, are the exquisite tools by which quantum behavior can be probed on…