1033

Institute of Physics Pub.

c2003

xi, 358 p. ill. 24 cm

Papers presented at a conference held in Bristol, June 2001 , Includes bibliographical references and index , Bifurcation and degenerate decomposition in multiple time scale dynamical systems / John Guckenheimer -- Many-body quantum mechanics / Robert S MacKay -- Unfolding complexity: hereditary dynamical systems-new bifurcation schemes and high dimensional chaos / Uwe an der Heiden -- Creating stability out of instability / Christopher K R T Jones -- Signal or noise? A nonlinear dynamics approach to spatio-temporal communication / Gregory D Van Wiggeren, Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Rajarshi Roy -- Outstanding problems in the theory of pattern formation / Edgar Knobloch -- Is chaos relevant to fluid mechanics? / Tom Mullin -- Time-reversed acoustics and chaos / Mathias Fink -- Reduction methods applied to non-locally coupled oscillator systems / Yoshiki Kuramoto -- A prime number of prime questions about vortex dynamics in nonlinear media / Art Winfree -- Spontaneous pattern formation in primary visual cortex / Paul C Bressloff, Jack D Cowan -- Models for pattern formation in development / Bard Ermentrout, Remus Osan -- Spatio-temporal nonlinear dynamics: a new beginning / William L Ditto

Hogan, S. J.