Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures VI

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.