Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Nonequilibrium Complex Systems - NATO Advanced Research Workshop : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Non Book

	Preface
	Patterns in Nonlinear Optics: A Paradigm	3
	The Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation for Beginners	19
	Disordered Regimes of the One-Dimensional Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation	33
	Vortex Solids and Vortex Liquids in a Complex Ginzburg-Landau System	51
	The Grinfeld Instability of Stressed Crystals	65
	Patterns of Stress-Driven Islanding in Solid Epitaxial and He-4 Films	77
	Selected Spacings During Directional Solidification of a Binary Alloy	91
	Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Liquid Crystals	107
	Nonequilibrium Phase Winding and Its Breakdown at a Chiral Interface	123
	Theory of Dendritic Growth in Three Dimensions	133
	An Experimental Study of Periodic Tip-Splitting Process in NH[subscript 4]Cl Dendrite	145
	The Effect of Noise on Dendritic Growth	157
	Fractal and Compact Morphology of Growth Patterns	167
	Pattern Formation in the Growth of Smectic A Liquid Crystals in Some Binary Mixtures	171
	Traveling Cellular Patterns and Parity Breaking at a Driven Interface	183
	The Fracture Transition in Swollen Polymer Networks	197
	Some Remarks About Second-Order Fluids	211
	Patterns in Sheared Polymeric Nematics	219
	New Instabilities in Colloidal Suspension Taylor-Couette Flow	229
	Behavior of a One-Dimensional Chain of Nonlinear Oscillators	237
	Domain Structures and Zig-Zag Patterns Modeled by a Fourth-Order Ginzburg-Landau Equation	255
	Onset of Convection in Small-Aspect-Ratio Systems and Its Application to the g-Jitter Problem	265
	Hopf Bifurcation by Frustrated Drifts	273
	Convection in a Rotating Cylinder in the Low Prandtl Number Limit	285
	Dislocations in Hexagonal Patterns	295
	Electroconvective Patterns in Freely Suspended Liquid Crystal Films	307
	Stability Diagram, Defect Turbulence, and New Patterns in Electroconvection in Nematics	313
	Phase Jump Lines in Two-Dimensional Patterns	331
	The Electrohydrodynamic Instability in a Homeotropically Aligned Nematic: Experimental Results	343
	Measurement of Material Parameters of the Nematic Liquid Crystal I52	353
	Dynamic Scattering Modes of Nematic Liquid Crystals in a Magnetic Field	367
	Spinodal Decomposition in Binary Fluid Mixtures	381
	Polymerization-Driven Phase Separation in Polymer-Liquid Crystal Systems	391
	Pattern Formation in Ordering Dynamics Under Inhomogeneous External Conditions	399
	Alignment of Lamellar Block Copolymer Microstructure in an Electric Field	411
	Turing Structures in Chemical and Material Instabilities	425
	Birth and Death of Spiral Waves	437
	Gradient-Free Structures in Liesegang Phenomena	445
	Localized Structures in the Chlorine Dioxide-Iodide-Malonic Acid System	469
	The Theory of Motion of Spiral Waves in Oscillatory Media	479
	Chemistry-Flow Interactions: Stability Analysis of a Reaction-Diffusion-Convection System	499
	Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Patterns by Means of Empirical Orthogonal Functions	505
	The Effect of Noise on Spatio-Temporal Patterns	521
	Noise-Induced Transition to Chaos	529
	Statistical Averages of Chaotically Evolving Patterns	545
	Freely Decaying Two-Dimensional Turbulence: A Quantitative Experimental Study	553
	Spatio-Temporal Intermittency in a Roll Coating Experiment	561
	Self-Organized Intermittent Activity for Strings and Interfaces	573
	Failure of Hierarchically Structured Materials: Statics and Dynamics	581
	Self-Affine Roughening of Bacteria Colony Surfaces	601
	Growth and Morphological Changes of Bacteria Colonies	609
	Evolution of Complexity During Growth of Bacterial Colonies	619
	Microbial Consumption Patterns	635
	A Nonequilibrium Statistical Field Theory of Swarms and Other Spatially Extended Complex Systems	649
	Abnormal Spatiotemporal Growth	659
	Index	671