Physics

Since the discovery by Bednorz and Muller of Cu-O alloys displaying high temperature superconductivity, great energy has been put into research in this field.

Since 1972 the Schools on Nonlinear Physics in Gorky have been a meeting place for Soviet scientists working in this field.

Eine gleichermaßen aktuelle wie zusammenfassende Darstellung der wichtigsten Methoden zur Untersuchung der klassischen Gruppen fehlte bislang in deutschsprachigen Lehrbüchern.

This book is based on the notes of the authors' seminar on algebraic and Lie groups held at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow University in 1967/68.

In the case of completely integrable systems, periodic solutions are found by inspection.

Keine wissenschaftliche Theorie ist auf solche Faszination auch außerhalb der Wissenschaft gestoßen wie die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie von Albert Einstein, und keine wurde so nachdrücklich mit den Mitteln der modernen Physik überprüft.

In many areas of mechanics the interplay between mathematics and physics is crucial for understanding not only underlying principles but also practical applications.

In this volume the contributions of the 2nd International EBSA (European Biophysical Societies Association) Symposium devoted to the biophysical and biochemical aspects of the structure and interaction of cytoskeletal and extracellular proteins are presented.

This manual on "e;Dynamics of Membrane Proteins and Cellular Energetics"e; is the result of a FEBS-CNRS Course held in Grenoble and Besanc;{on in September 1987.

This volume contains review articles written by the invited speakers at the eighth International Summer Institute in Surface Science (ISISS 1987), held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in August of 1987.

The Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) was often called the conscience of physics.

Neural networks are not rigidly wired but rather highly plastic structures, the functional architecture of which can be actively reorganized in response to external or internal events.

This volume arises from an International Symposium on Flow and Transport in the Natural Environment held in Canberra, Australia, in September 1987.

"e;Methods in Protein Sequence Analysis - 1988"e; - contains selected contributions on modern protein- analytical techniques as presented by speakers at the Seventh International Conference on "e;Methods in Protein Sequence Analysis"e;, held from July 3rd to July 8th, 1988 in Berlin.

The contributions in this book were presented, orally or as posters, at the International Volcanological Congress held in New Zealand from 1 to 9 February 1986, the centenary year of the Tarawera eruption of 10 June 1886.

These proceedings are the result of the third international workshop on Desorption Induced by Electronic Transitions, DIET III, which took place on Shelter Island, NY, May.

This collection of papers is based on a symposium held in 1987 at the Interna- tional Union of Geology and Geodesy Congress in Vancouver, British Colum- bia.

Modern polymer materials are designed by applying principles of correlation between chemical structure, physical macrostructure and technological properties.

Diffusion in solids and at interfaces is a very active area of research, as the contributions to this volume attest.

Neutrinos play an intriguing role in modern physics linking central questions of particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics.

Open nonlinear systems are capable of self-organization in space and time.

Real problems concerning vibrations of elastic structures are among the most fascinating topics in mathematical and physical research as well as in applications in the engineering sciences.

Wood is the usual end product of a forestry operation.

This book is a textbook for graduate or advanced undergraduate students in mathematics and (or) mathematical physics.

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in any department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

In this book the author discusses the investigation of ion bombardment of solids by computer simulation, with the aim of demonstrating the usefulness of this approach to the problem of interactions of ions with solids.

Hydrogen can behave as an alkaline metal or a halogen and can react with nearly all elements of the periodic table.

The book "e;Relativity in Astrometry, Celestial Mechanics and Geodesy"e; repre- sents a significant contribution to modern relativistic celestial mechanics and astrometry.

The first topical meeting on Photonic Switching was held March 18-20, 1987 in Incline Village, Nev.

Major structural features are used in this study to reconstruct the links which existed between North America, Europe and Africa before the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Design of Power Sonic and Ultrasonic Transducers, which was held in the Maison de l'Entreprise et des Technologies Nouvelles, Marcq en Baroeul, near Lille, France, on May 26 and 27, 1987.

My dear friends, I am very pleased and honored to give the opening address in the first Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Symposium on Theoretical Physics.

1 The content ofthis article is based on a German book version ) which appeared at the end of the year 1986.

Radiation induces a variety of chemical processes in biological tissues.

The second workshop on High Energy Astrophysics of the Ma.

In 1979, a conference on x-ray microscopy was organized by the New York Academy of Sciences, and in 1983, the Second Interna- tional Symposium on X-ray Imaging was organized by the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Gottingen, Federal Republic of Germany.

Genetic information determines the composition of molecules comprising cytoskeletal elements, membranes and receptors.

Living things use solar energy in two ways: in the transmission of information and in the conversion of light energy to chemical energy.

To preserve tissue by freezing is an ancient concept going back pre- sumably to the practice of ice-age hunters.

Lasers and Synergetics, written to honour Hermann Haken on his 60th birthday, is concerned with the two main areas of research to which Prof.