Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures IX

I. Courses.- Reorientation and Undulation Instabilities in Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystalline Elastomers..- Biased Tracer Diffusion in Hard-Core Lattice Gases: Some Notes on the Validity of the Einstein Relation..- Numerical Methods for Bifurcation Problems..- II. Articles.- Falkner-Skan approximation for gradually variable flows..- Critical dynamics in reversible forced pendulum chains..- Time Asymmetry as Universe Asymmetry..- Front Dynamics in a Liquid Crystal Light Valve with Feedback..- Bifurcation due rotation in radiation driven wind from hot stars..- An analytical approach to nucleation solutions and pulses in the one-dimensional real and complex Ginzburg-Landau equations..- Optimization of Brownian transport in a system of globally coupled phase oscillators by means of colored noise..- Resonant behavior of the wake of a flat plate: Hot wire and sound scattering measurements..- Global Magnitude Fluctuation Phenomena..- Propagation of acoustic waves in clastic materials with randomly distributed dislocations..- Convection in Polymeric Solutions..- Noise-induced Resonance in Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Feedback..- On the Effect of Time Correlated Noise and Periodic Forcing on a Neuronal System..- Non-Riemannian Geometry of a Continuous-Spin Infinite Particle Systems and their Non-Interaction Representation..- Eigenvalue solution for the self similar Birkhoff-Rott equation..- A measure of self-organization in neural activity..- Thermodynamic Field Theory (An Approach to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes)..- van der Waals-like transition in fluidized granular matter: hydrodynamic description..- Binary fluid convection as a 2 × 2 matrix problem..- Singularity formation in vortex sheets and interfaces..- On the Dynamics of Nanostructures Formationduring Thin Film Growth..- Author Index.