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Hard spheres and related objects (hard disks and mixtures of hard systems) are paradigmatic systems: indeed, they have served as a basis for the theoretical and numerical development of a number of fields, such as general liquids and fluids, amorphous solids, liquid crystals, colloids and granular matter, to name but a few.

The application to Biology of the methodologies developed in Physics is attracting an increasing interest from the scientific community.

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This volume on spin glasses, structural glasses and biological macromolecules collects pedagogically written lecture notes of internationally renowned - perts from eight countries, who work on di?

Nanoscale miniaturization and femtosecond laser-pulse spectroscopy require a quantum mechanical description of the carrier kinetics that goes beyond the conventional Boltzmann theory.

For most cases of interest, exact solutions to nonlinear equations describing stochastic dynamical systems are not available.

The apparent contradiction of the results of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment conducted in 1953 and 1954 with the hypothesis that essentially any nonlinearity would lead to a system exhibiting ergodic behaviour has become known as the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem.

Stochastic control theory is a relatively young branch of mathematics.

Reinvigorated by advances and insights, in particular from the active fields of quantum information and computing, the quantum theory of irreversible processes has recently attracted growing attention.

Over the years enormous effort was invested in proving ergodicity, but for a number of reasons, con?

Crypto'92 took place on August 16-20, 1992.

Chaos theory plays an important role in modern physics and related sciences, but -, the most important results so far have been obtained in the study of gravitational systems applied to celestial mechanics.

Symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) dominate the high-end server market and are currently the primary candidate for constructing large scale multiprocessor systems.

This volume presents the proceedings of the First International Conference on Applications of Databases, ADB-94, held at Vadstena, Sweden in June 1994.

Inspired by the general configuration characteristics of automatic production lines, the author discusses the modelisation of important sectors of a factory.

The CRYPTO '93 conference was sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and Bell-Northern Research (a subsidiary of Northern Telecom), in co-operation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee.

Eurocrypt is a series of open workshops on the theory andapplication of cryptographic techniques.

This book is composed of two texts, by R.

Zero-knowledge interactive proofsystems are a new technique which can be used as a cryptographic tool for designing provably secure protocols.

In this monograph the recursion method is presented as a method for the analysis of dynamical properties of quantum and classical many-body systems in thermal equilibrium.

The CRYPTO '94 conference is sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), in co-operation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy.

The concept of phase space plays a decisive role in the study of the transition from classical to quantum physics.

This volume contains the text of four sets of lecturesdelivered at the third session of the Summer Schoolorganized by C.

This book is the proceedings of CRYPTO 86, one in a series of annual conferences devoted to cryptologic research.

This book presents in a unified way the mathematical theory of well-posedness in optimization.

Molecularly small confined phases play an important role in many scientific and engineering disciplines.

The history of critical phenomena goes back to the year 1869 when Andrews discovered the critical point of carbon dioxide, located at about 31(deg)C and 73 atmospheres pressure.

A series of workshops devoted to modern cryptography beganin Santa Barbara,California in 1981 and was followed in1982 by a European counterpart in Burg Feuerstein, Germany.

In general, combustion is a spatially three-dimensional, highly complex physi- co-chemical process oftransient nature.

The problem of designing a cost-efficient network thatsurvives the failure of one or more nodes or edges of thenetwork is critical to modern telecommunicationsengineering.

The study of complementarity problems is now an interestingmathematical subject with many applications in optimization,game theory, stochastic optimal control, engineering,economics etc.

This volume presents the proceedings of the second European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 92), held in Toulouse in November 1992.

Particles with fractional statistics interpolating betweenbosons and fermions have attracted considerable interestfrom mathematical physicists.

Astronomy as well as molecular physics describe non-relativistic motion by an interaction of the same form: By Newton's respectively by Coulomb's potential.

'I'he int,ernational Association for Cryptologic Research (IACK) organizes two inter- tioilill coiifcrcnces every year, one in Europe and one in the United States.

Eurocrypt is a conference devoted to all aspects of cryptologic research, both theoretical and practical, sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

The book is devoted to the study of distributed control problems governed by various nonsmooth state systems.

Entropy inequalities, correlation functions, couplingsbetween stochastic processes are powerful techniques whichhave been extensively used to give arigorous foundation tothe theory of complex, many component systems and to itsmany applications in a variety of fields as physics,biology, population dynamics, economics, .

Nonlinear science is by now a well established field of research at the interface of many traditional disciplines and draws on the theoretical concepts developed in physics and mathematics.

The fundamental problem in control engineering is to providerobust performance to uncertain plants.

Block pulse functions have been studied and appliedextensively in the past fifteen years as a basic set offunctions for signal characterizations in systems scienceand control.

Dynamics of Topological Magnetic Solitons gives a theoretical and experimental review of the dynamics of high-speed domain walls and Bloch lines.

The 1990 CIME course on Mathematical Modelling of IndustrialProcesses set out to illustrate some advances in questionsof industrial mathematics, i.