Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 The Quantum Hall Nematic Phase.- Chapter 3 Low Temperature Measurement Techniques.- Chapter 4 The Quantum Hall Effect and Hydrostatic Pressure.- Chapter 5 The Fractional Quantum Hall State-to-Nematic Phase Transition Under Hydrostatic Pressure.- Chapter 6 Universality of the Fractional Quantum Hall State-to-Nematic Phase Transition at Half-Filling in the Second Landau Level.- Chapter 7 Origin of the Fractional Quantum Hall State-to-Nematic Phase Transition in the Second Landau Level.- References.
