Phase Transitions in the Early Universe and Defect Formation. - The Topological Classification of Defects. - to Growth Kinetics Problems. - Dynamics of Cosmological Phase Transitions: What Can We Learn from Condensed Matter Physics?. - Topological Defects and Phase Ordering Dynamics. - The Production of Strings and Monopoles at Phase Transitions. - Geometry of Defect Scattering. - Theory of Fluctuating Nonholonomic Fields and Applications: Statistical Mechanics of Vortices and Defects and New Physical Laws in Spaces with Curvature and Torsion. - String Network Evolution. - Global Field Dynamics and Cosmological Structure Formation. - Electroweak Baryogenesis. - Dynamics of Cosmic Strings and other Brane Models. - Cosmological Experiments in Superfluids and Superconductors. - Cosmological Experiments in Liquid 4He - Problems and Prospects. Language: English