Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeIntroduction.- Kinetic Pattern Formation at Solid Surfaces.- Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation in Semiconductor Systems.- Group-Theoretic Methods in the Theory of Pattern Formation.- On Fundamental Structure-Forming Processes.- Glass Transition in Colloids and Undercooled Liquids.- Experimental Investigations of Collective Excitations in Disordered Matter.- Theories of the Structural Glass Transition.- Glassy Dynamics and Aging in Disordered Systems.- Nonlinear Dynamics in Aperiodic Crystals.- Disordered Dynamical Systems.- Lyapunov Instability of Fluids.- On Symbolic Dynamics of Space-Time Chaotic Models.- Complex Adaptive Systems.- Index.