1. General premise -- 2. Size, shape, and structure of macromolecules -- 3. Electrolyte solutions, interfaces, and geometric objects -- 4. Flexible and semiflexible polyelectrolytes -- 5. Confinement, entropic barrier, and free energy landscape -- 6. Random walks, Brownian motion, and drift -- 7. Polyelectrolyte dynamics -- 8. Ion flow in single pores -- 9. Polymer capture -- 10. Translocation kinetics : nucleation and threading -- 11. Further issues.