Competing Interactions and Microstructures: Statics and Dynamics

I Introductory Surveys.- The Microscopic Understanding of Modulated Structures and Polytypes.- Electron Microscopy of Static and Dynamic Phenomena.- Some Problems for Physicists in First Order Diffusional Phase Transformations in Crystalline Solids.- Competing Displacive Interactions, Phonon Anomalies, and Structural Transitions Which Do Not "Soften".- II Statics.- Competing Interactions and the Origins of Polytypism.- On the Systematics of Phase Transformations in Metallic Alloys.- Neutron and X-Ray Scattering Studies of Premartensitic Phenomena.- Statics and Dynamics of Twin Boundaries in Martensites.- The Frenkel-Kontorova Model with Nonconvex Interparticle Interactions.- Cu3Pd Observed by High-Voltage Electron Microscopy.- Existence and Formation of LPAPB Structures in Pt3V Studied Using High Resolution Electron Microscopy..- Dense Packings of Hard Spheres.- Competing Interactions in Metallic Superlattices.- Quasi-Two-Dimensional Phase Transitions in Graphite Intercalation Compounds.- Structure and Modeling of 2D Alkali Liquids in Graphite.- Microstructures of Rare-Gas Films Adsorbed on Graphite: Classical and Quantum Simulations.- New Theory for Competing Interactions and Microstructures in Partially Ordered (Liquid-Crystalline) Phases.- III Dynamics.- Defects, Hysteresis and Memory Effects in Modulated Systems.- Competing Interactions: Charge Density Waves and Impurities.- Dynamical Excitations of Site-Diluted Magnets.- Random Field Effects in Dilute Antiferromagnets.- Spin Glasses.- Neural Networks: A Tutorial.- Ordering Kinetics in Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems and Polymer Melts.- Effects of Impurities on Domain Growth.- to Growth Oscillations.- Index of Contributors.