Probing the QCD vacuum

Heavy quark bound states are used as significative probes of the QCD vacuum and the mechanism of confinement.Comment: 13 pages, sprocl.sty, 2 figures, Invited talk given at the XVIII Autumn School ``Topology of Strongly Correlated Systems'', Lisbon, Portugal, 8-13 October, 200

Heavy Quarkonium at zero and finite temperature: an effective field theory perspective

I discuss quarkonium physics at zero and finite temperature in the framework of nonrelativistic effective field theories.Comment: 9 pages, invited plenary talk at Chiral10, International Workshop on Chiral Symmetry in Hadrons and Nuclei, Valencia, (Spain), June 21-24, 201

NRQCD and Quarkonia

We review recent progress in Non-Relativistic QCD and in related Non-Relativistic Effective Field Theories with emphasis on the applications to heavy quarkonia.Comment: 24 pages, invited talk at the Conference HQL06, Munich, October 16-20 2006. One reference adde

Systems of two heavy quarks with effective field theories

I discuss results and applications of QCD nonrelativistic effective field theories for systems with two heavy quarks.Comment: 7 pages, Invited talk at the 7th Workshop on Continuous Advances in QCD, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 11-14, 200