Physics

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.

In a foreword, an author usually elucidates the aim of his book and describes an idealized reader to whom it is addressed.

There is no doubt about the importance of hydration in many areas of every day life, technology, biology, medicine, science etc.

This book contains the proceedings of the first Workshop on Interface Phenomena, organized jointly by the surface science groups at Dalhousie University and the University of Maine.

In May 1986 a two-day workshop on Physical Processes in Comets, Stars and Active Galaxies was held at the Ringberg Castle near Lake Tegernsee, and this rather unusml.

Rhythms of the heart and of the nervous and endocrine system, breathing, locomotory movements, sleep, circadian rhythms and tissue cell cycles are major elements of the temporal order of man.

Analysis on Symmetric spaces, or more generally, on homogeneous spaces of semisimple Lie groups, is a subject that has undergone a vigorous development in recent years, and has become a central part of contemporary mathematics.

For the last few years astrophysicists and elementary particle physicists have been working jointly on the following fascinating phenomena: 1.

The trend towards miniaturisation of microelectronic devices and the search for exotic new optoelectronic devices based on multilayers confer a crucial role on semiconductor interfaces.

Over the past five years, there has been an enormous increase in the inter- est in and understanding of electronic and optoelectronic devices operating in the picosecond (multigigahertz) range.

Membrane bioenergetics is one of the most rapidly growing areas within physico-chemical biology.

The formation and evolution of complex dynamical structures is one of the most exciting areas of nonlinear physics.

In part I of this book a dynamic migratory model connecting the microlevel of individual migration trends with the macrolevel of interregional migration is developed.

This book contains the invited papers presented at an international sympo- sium held at Schloss Elmau, Bavaria (FRG), May 4-9, 1987.

This volume contains the written versions of invited lectures and abstracts of seminars presented at the 26th "e;Universitatswochen fiir Kernphysik"e; (Uni- versity nuclear physics weeks) in Schladming, Austria, in February 1987.

Twenty-five years of Schladming Winter School 1.

The present book is a translation of the original German edition (published in 1982) with some minor corrections and improvements.

Of the variety of nonlinear dynamical systems that exhibit deterministic chaos optical systems both lasers and passive devices provide nearly ideal systems for quantitative investigation due to their simplicity both in construction and in the mathematics that describes them.

Nuclear physics is presently experiencing a thrust towards fundamental phy- sics questions.

This volume contains papers which have been presented at the International Sym- posium on Metal Clusters in Heidelberg from April 7-11, 1986.

This volume is the third of a series on Membrane Proteins and, like the pre- ceding manuals, is the result of an International Advanced Course entitled Isolation and Characterization of Membrane Proteins: Biochemical and Bio- physical Aspects sponsored by the Federation of European Biochemical So- cieties (FEBS) and the Italian Research Council (CNR).

This book the second volume in the "e;Springer Series in Biophysics"e; col- lects together contributions to the conference on "e;Biophysics and Syn- chrotron Radiation"e; held in July 86 at Frascati.

From the reviews:"e;It survives the pitfalls of this fashion-conscious era by pursuing a rigorously independent-minded attitude to contemporary ideas.

This volume contains notes based on the lectures delivered at the fourth New Zealand Symposium in Laser Physics, held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, February 10-15, 1986.

One of the most fundamental discoveries of the solar system was the detection of four moons in orbit around Jupiter by Galileo Galilei in 1610.

The Institut Max von Laue-Paul Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble regularly orga- nizes workshops that deal with various applications of neutrons in physics, chemistry, biology and materials science.

This volume is based on lectures and contributed papers presented at the Eleventh Course of the International School of Materials Science and Tech- nology that was held in Erice, Sicily, Italy at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture during the period 6-17 July 1986.

In the first volume we based quantum mechanics on the objective description of macroscopic devices.

On three occasions and at different locations, conferences were held to honor the eightieth birthday of Professor Herbert Frohlich: on the 18th December, 1985, in Liverpool, England; on the 14th February, 1986, in Stuttgart, Germany; and on the 8th March, 1986, on the Palm Coast, Florida.

The Sixth International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers (GCL) was held in Jerusalem, Israel, on September 8-12, 1986.

Since 1981 there has been an attempt in Europe to organize a series of small meetings/workshops/tavole rotonde with the aim of bringing together physi- cists and chemists interested in problems concerning atoms or molecules in- teracting with external photons where the continua are investigated.

The first four symposia in the series on turbulent shear flows have been held alternately in the United States and Europe with the first and third being held at universities in eastern and western States, respectively.

Atomic and molecular processes play an important role in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas for a wide range of conditions, and determine, in part, their electrical, transport, thermal, and radiation properties.