Author Description

Universality of dissipative systems / George Schmidt -- Circle maps, mode-locking and chaos / Per Bak, Tomas Bohr & Mogens H. Jensen -- Chaos in liquid crystal optical bistability / Hong-jun Zhang, Jian-hua Dai, Peng-ye Wang, Fu-lai Zhang, Guang Xu & Shi-ping Yang -- Simple mathematical models for complex dynamics in physiological systems / Leon Glass -- Most stable manifolds and transition to chaos in dissipative systems with competing frequencies / Yan Gu -- Quantum chaos, is there any? / Joseph Ford -- Quantum manifestations of classical chaos: statistics of spectra / Jorge V. Jose -- The thermodynamics of fractals / Tomas Bohr & Tamas Tel -- Self- organized critical phenomena / Per Bak, Chao Tang & Kurt Wiesenfeld -- Discrete fluids / Brosl Hasslacher -- Numerical methods to study chaos in ordinary differential equations / Hao Bai-lin -- An experimentalist's introduction to the observation of dynamical systems / Neil Gershenfeld