Volume 2 of Directions in Chaos consists of the contributions made to the Beijing Summer School on Chaotic Phenomena in Nonlinear Systems held in August 1987.
Contents:
Universality of Dissipative Systems(G Schmidt)
Circle Maps, Mode-Locking and Chaos (P Bak et al.)
Chaos in Liquid Crystal Optical Bistability (H-J Zhang et al.)
Simple Mathematical Models for Complex Dynamics in Physiological Systems (L Glass)
Most Stable Manifolds and Transition to Chaos in Dissipative Systems with Competing Frequencies (Yan Gu)
Quantum Chaos, is there any? (J Ford)
Quantum Manifestations of Classical Chaos: Statistics of Spectra (J V Jose)
The Thermodynamics of Fractals (T Bohr & T Tel)
Self-organized Critical Phenomena (P Bak et al.)
Discrete Fluids (B Hasslacher)
Numerical Methods to study Chaos in Ordinary Differential Equations (B-L Hao)
An Experimentalist's Introduction to the Observation of Dynamical Systems (N Gershenfeld)
Readership: Condensed matter physicists, applied mathematicians and computer scientists.
