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- Contents -.- Course 1: Random Fluctuations and Transport.- Some Themes and Common Tools.- Structure, Elasticity and Thermal Properties of Silica Networks.- Anomalous Diffusion and Fractons in Disordered Structures.- Fractons in Real Fractals.- Anomalous Transport in Disordered Structures: Effect of Additional Disorder.- Information Exponents for Transport in Regular Lattices and Fractals.- Anomalous Transport in Random Linear Structures.- Course 2: Random Growth Patterns: Aggregation.- Morphological Transitions in Pattern Growth Phenomena.- Visualization and Characterization of Microparticle Growth Patterns.- Origin of Fractal Roughness in Synthetic and Natural Materials.- Electrodeposition.- Course 3: Random Fluctuations in Fluid Systems.- Flow Patterns in Porous Media.- Viscous Fingering in a Circular Geometry.- Construction of a Radial Hele-Shaw Cell.- Growth and Viscous Fingers on Percolating Porous Media.- Structure of Miscible and Immiscible Displacement Fronts in Porous Media.- Dynamics of Invasion Percolation.- Course 4: Random Fluctuations in Liquid Crystals.- Directional Solidification of Liquid Crystals.- Interfacial Instabilities of Condensed Phase Domains in Lipid Monolayers.- Pattern Formation of Molecules Adsorbing on Lipid Monolayers.- Course 5: Random Fluctuations in "Solid" Materials.- to Dense Branching Morphology.- The Material Factors Leading to Dense Branching Morphology in Al:Ge Thin Films.- Theoretical Aspects of Polycrystalline Pattern Growth in Al/Ge Films.- Pattern Formation in Dendritic Solidification.- Relaxation of Excitations in Porous Solids.- Soap Bubbles-A Simple Model System for Solids.- Course 6: Fracture of Disordered Solids.- to Modern Ideas on Fracture Patterns.- Rupture in Random Media.- Fracture Experiments onMonolayers of Microspheres.- Simple Models for Colloidal Aggregation, Dielectric Breakdown and Mechanical Breakdown Patterns.- Dielectric Breakdown Patterns with a Growth Probability Threshold.- Course 7: Fluctuation Phenomena in Membranes and Random Surfaces.- The Statistical Mechanics of Crumpled Membranes.- Fluctuations in Fluid and Hexatic Membranes.- Unbinding Transition and Mutual Adhesion in General of DGDG Membranes.- Scaling Properties of Interfaces and Membranes.- Surfactants in Solution: An Experimental Tool to Study Fluctuating Surfaces.- Course 8: Convection, Turbulence and Multifractals.- to Convection.- Onset of Convection.- Waves and Plumes in Thermal Convection.- An Introduction to Multifractal Distribution Functions.- Multifractals in Convection and Aggregation.- Multifractal Analysis of Sedimentary Rocks.- Phase Transition on DLA.- Course 9: Random Fluctuations and Complex Systems.- Disordered Patterns in Deterministic Growth.- 1/f Versus 1/f? Noise.- A Simple Model of Molecular Evolution.- Scale Invariant Spacial and Temporal Fluctuations in Complex Systems.- The Upper Critical Dimension and ?-Expansion for Self-Organized Critical Phenomena.- Self-Organized Criticality and the Origin of Fractal Growth.- Finite Lifetime Effects in Models of Epidemics.- to Droplet Growth Processes: Simulations, Theory and Experiments.- List of Participants.
About the author
Nicole Ostrowsky ist Professorin an der Universität von Nizza, lehrt Physik und leitete das Physiklabor (LPMC). Sie begann ihre Karriere unter anderem als Forscherin am französischen Zentrum für wissenschaftliche Forschung (CNRS) und an der Universität von Harvard. In ihrer Leidenschaft für die Wissenschaftsvermittlung schuf sie eine Reihe wissenschaftlicher Plakate, die im Pariser Palais de la Découverte, einem interaktiven Museum für junge Forscher, ihren Platz gefunden haben.
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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cargese, Corsica, France, 18-31 July, 1988
