Classical mechanics

This symposium continues a long tradition for IUGGjIUTAM symposia going back to "e;Fundamental Problems in Thrbulence and their Relation to Geophysics"e; Marseille, 1961.

Nonlinearity and stochastic structural dynamics is of common interest to engineers and applied scientists belonging to many disciplines.

As Directors of this NATO Workshop, we welcome this opportunity to record formally our thanks to the NATO Scientific Affairs Division for making our meeting possible through generous financial support and encouragement.

This book is concerned with the methods of solving the nonlinear Boltz- mann equation and of investigating its possibilities for describing some aerodynamic and physical problems.

Astrometry from space was performed for the first time and with great success by the ESA Hipparcos satellite (1989-93).

In this XVII Course of the International School of Cosmology and Gravitation devoted to "e;ADVANCES IN THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN QUANTUM AND GRAVITY PHYSICS"e; we have considered different aspects of the influence of gravity on quantum systems.

Nonlinear partial differential equations abound in modern physics.

On August 2000 in the Lomonosov Moscow State University the first scientific conference dedicated to chaos in the real astronomical systems was held.

A representative cross-section of elastic biomolecules is covered in this volume, which combines seventeen contributions from leading research groups.

Global warming, melting polar caps, rising sea levels and intensifying wave-current action, factors responsible for the alarming phenomena of coastal erosion on the one hand and adverse environmental impacts and the high cost of 'hard' protection schemes, on the other, have created interest in the detailed examination of the potential and range of applicability of the emerging and promising category of 'soft' shore protection methods.

This volume contains the proceedings of the meeting entitled, "e;The IGM/Galaxy Connection: The Distribution of Baryons at z = 0.

Most of the existing strong motion instrumentation on civil engineering structures is installed and operated as federal, state, university, industry or private applications, in many cases operated as a closed system.

The NATO Advanced Study Institute 2000 was held in Cascais, a small town located in a renowned beach resort area, near Lisbon.

Noise from cars, trains, and aeroplanes can be heard at large distances from the source.

The main scope of this Cargese NATO Advanced Study Institute (June 5-17 2000) was to bring together a number of international experts, covering a large spectrum of the various Physical Aspects of Fracture.

Non-accelerator particle physicists, especially those studying neutrino oscillation experiments, will read with profit the in-depth discussions of new results and their interpretations.

The limiting influence of the environment on sonar has long been recognised as a major challenge to science and technology.

An up-to-date and comprehensive review of magnetic storage systems, including particulate and rigid media, magnetic heads, tribology, signal processing spintronics, and other, future systems.

Five laboratories from France, Hungary and the Czech Republic have solved a Project supported fmancially by NATO within the Science for Peace Program (under Nr.

A wide range of topics are covered, ranging from supernovae to active galactic nuclei, cosmic gamma rays to neutrinos and dark matter.

Topological defects are the subject of intensive studies in many different branches of physics ranging from cosmology to liquid crystals and from elementary particles to colloids and biological systems.

Leading experts present a unique, invaluable introduction to the study of the geometry and typology of fluid flows.

Many mesoscopic systems display `adaptive' behaviour - changes in some physical property that results from a small change in an internal or external driving force.

Stellar astrophysics still provides the basic framework for deciphering the imprints left over by the evolving universe on all scales.

The papers included in this volume were presented at the Symposium on Advances in the Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Material Behavior, held as part of the 1999 Joint ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Summer Conference at Virginia Tech on June 27-30, 1999.

This NATO Advanced Study Institute provided an up dated understanding, from a fundamental and deep point of view, of the progress and current problems in the early universe, cosmic microwave background radiation, large scale structure, dark matter problem, and the interplay between them.

A fundamental, profound review of the key issues relating to the early universe and the physical processes that occurred in it.

Hermann Weyl considered value distribution theory to be the greatest mathematical achievement of the first half of the 20th century.

This book contains the lectures given at the workshop "e;Dynamo and dynamics, a mathematical challenge"e; held in Cargese from August 21 to 26, 2000.

Free surface flows arise in the natural world, physical and biological sciences and in some areas of modern technology and engineering.

Blind Signal Separation (BSS) deals with recovering (filtered versions of) source signals from an observed mixture thereof.

Refrigeration plays a prominent role in our everyday lives, and cryogenics plays a major role in medical science, space technology and the cooling of low-temperature electronics.

Did you know that the Grand Bank earthquake of 1929 triggered a huge submarine mass movement which broke submarine cables over a distance of up to 1000 km from its source and generated a tsunami which devastated a small village in Newfoundland killing 27 people?

"e;Symposium Transsonicum"e; was founded by Klaus Oswatitsch four decades ago when there was clearly a need for a systematic treatment of flow problems in the higher speed regime in aeronautics.

In preparing this translation for publication certain minor modifications and additions have been introduced into the original Russian text, in order to increase its readibility and usefulness.

The significance of the present IAU symposium, "e;The Large Scale Structure of the Universe"e;, fortunately requires no elaboration by the editors.

Galaxy groups and clusters provide excellent laboratories for studying galaxy properties in different environments and at different look-back times.

One studying the motion of fluids relative to particulate systems is soon impressed by the dichotomy which exists between books covering theoretical and practical aspects.

Composites offer great promise as light weight and strong materials for high performance structures.

Experiments on fracture of materials are made for various purposes.

When my colleague Dr.

The Second USA-USSR Symposium on Fna~e 06 Compo~~e Mat~aGBPh took place at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, during 9-12 March, 1981.

Although finite elasticity theory has its roots in the nineteenth century, its development was largely neglected until the end of the Second World War.

A IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) Sympo- sium 'Mechanics and Physics of Bubbles in Liquids' was held at Pasadena, Calif.