Nonlinearity with Disorder

I Mathematical and Statistical Aspects.- Linear Chaos.- Second-Order Perturbations for Solitons.- Deformation of Solitons in Random Media.- Nonlinear Wave Propagation Through Disordered Media.- Nonlinearity and Disorder in the Statistical Mechanics of Integrable Systems.- Classical and Quantum Mechanical Analysis of Order and Chaos in the Discrete Self-Trapping Equation.- The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation on a Disordered Chain.- Dynamics of Sine-Gordon Soliton Interactions with Impurities.- Chaotic Dynamics of Nonlinear Schrödinger Soliton Interaction with an Oscillating Impurity.- Modulated Dark Soliton: Features of Creation and Propagation.- Dynamics of a Stochastically Perturbed ø4 Model.- On the Threshold of KdV Soliton Production.- One-Dimensional Localization and Wave Propagation in Linear and Nonlinear Media.- Annihilation of Topological Chiral Solitons.- On Some Probabilistic Problems in the Theory of Quadratic Operators.- Superexponential Damping of Mean Field Propagating in Randomly Inhomogeneous Medium with Anomalously Large-Scale Nonuniformities.- II Physical Applications.- Nonlinearity, Disorder, the Spread of Neolithic Farming, and the Origin of the Indo-European Languages.- Role of Disorder on the Dynamics of a Nonlinear Model for DNA Thermal Denaturation.- Nonlinear Dynamics in a Double Chain Model of DNA.- Energy Transfer in ?-Helical Proteins by Fermi Resonance.- Chaotic Dynamics of Fluxons in Large-Area Josephson Junctions.- Soliton Dynamics in Tunnel-Coupled Fibers with Variable Coupling.- Instability of Solitons and Nonlinear Waves in Liquid Crystals.- Phonons in Disordered Anharmonic Solids.- Two-Sublattice Solitons in Hydrogen-Bonded Chains with Dynamical Disorder.- Phase Transition in a Kink and Dynamical Structure Factor ofQuasi-One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets.- Layer Disordering and Optical Properties of a-Si/SiO2 Superlattices.- Modulational Polarization Instabilities and Disorder in Birefringent Optical Fibers.- Pattern Formation in Nonlinear Physical Systems with Characteristic Electric Properties.- Index of Contributors.