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This publication is the written form of a series of eight lectures on the subject of the title. Minimal representations are those which are very small in the sense of Gelfand-Kirillov dimension. They are at the centre of attempts to understand the very special properties of the oscillator (or Segal or Weil) projective representation of symplectic groups over local fields. After the introductory first lecture the author describes the theory of this representation and especially the Howe correspondence in Lectures 2-6. In the last two lectures he discusses the theory in the case of other groups. There is a very substantial bibliography, and the lectures provide a succinct survey of this wide and growing field. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0936.00032].