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This sixth Volume of the International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures is dedicated to the memory of my friend Walter Zeller, Professor of the Universidad C'at6lica df' Valparaiso and Vice-Director of the Workshop. Walter Zeller was much more than an organizer of this meeting: his enthusiasm, dedication and critical views were many times the essential ingredients to continue with a task which in occasions faced difficulties and incomprehensiolls. It is in great part due to him that the workshop has adquired to-day tradition. maturity and international recognition. This Volume should have been coedited by Walter and it is with df'ep emotion that I learned that his disciples Javier Martinez and Rolando Tiemann wanted as a last hommage to their Professor and friend to coedit tfus book. No me seria posible terminal' estas lineas sin pensar en la senora Adriana Gamonal de Zelln. qUf' ella encuentre en este libro la admiraci6n y reconocimiento hacia su marido de quiPIlf's [lPrall sus discipulos, colegas y amigos.
List of contents
I. Review Lectures.- A primer in classical turbulence theory.- Stochastic effects in physical systems.- II. Pattern Selection, Defects and Granular Matter.- Spatio-temporal intermittency in the spatial unfolding of Andronov's Bifurcations.- Thermodynamics and dynamics of supersolids.- Large Amplitude Patterns in Bistable Reaction-Diffusion Systems.- Bénard Cell: A Centennial Puzzle.- A parametric oscillator in a highly viscous fluid.- Spiral waves and target waves in single cells.- Pattern Selection and Stability in Polymeric Fluid Convection.- Wavelength Selection of Spiral Waves in Liquid Crystals.- Surface Waves Scattering by a Vertical Vortex: A progress report.- Spreading of molecularly thin wetting films on solid interfaces.- Developable Cones and Crumpled Pap er: An experimental point of view.- Quantum Topological Defects and the Schwinger mechanism.- Imperfect Coagulation reaction A + A ? A: An analitical approach.- Mixing and Segregation in Granular Matter.- Pressure and Surface Dilation measurements in vibrated granular layers.- III. Stochastic Behavior and Statistical Mechanics.- Quantum Coherence and Decoherence by Spontaneous Emission in a Quantum Optical Realization of a Driven Pendulum.- Covariant Non-Linear Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Ergodic Theory of Stochastic and Quantum Flows.- Stochastic Inflation: A Semiclassical Approach.- Stochastic Inflation: A Semiclassical Approach.- Multifractal Behavior of a Fibonacci Crystal built over p coupled chains.- Stationary probability for systems presenting weak noise transitions.
Summary
Contains two introductory papers: the first one refers to the effect of noise in nonequilibrium systems; and, the second is an introduction to turbulence in fluids. This book also contains a selection of the invited seminars given at the Sixth International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures.
