Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

J Hogan, A.R Krauskopf, Mario di Bernado, Eddie R. Wilson, Hinke M. Osinga, Martin E. Homer, Alan R. Champneys

"This handsome volume is the proceedings of a conference held in Bristol in 2001, which had the aim of charting new directions for the exploration of nonlinear dynamical systems. The editors must be commended for their work: the individual chapters have been given a clean, uniform style that reflects a serious effort to present the volume as a unified book rather than a recollection of articles, with several cross-references between the chapters. The book is also remarkably free of typographical errors. I heartily recommend this collection to students looking for some direction (as long as they don't think this is all of nonlinear dynamics!)."-UK Nonlinear News, May 2003"This timely and important book is a record of papers presented at a conference in Bristol and is very well edited, and produced … The very richness of this book, in both theory and real-world applications, makes it difficult to summarize and even more difficult to put down."-Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences"The book is written by authors who are champions of their field. All researchers in nonlinear dynamics should have access to this book. It is a valuable resource of references and it contains a lot of ideas and open problems in various fields. One might think of it as a catalogue of problems in nonlinear dynamics. The introduction of the book is a 'must-read.' It presents the nature and the philosophy of the book (and the symposium). Reading the introduction, the editors clearly have done a great job of managing each of the invited lecturers to translate the philosophy of the symposium into their lectures … my impression is that all authors did a good job presenting the excitement of their research and addressing the interesting questions. This book in general is a valuable addition to the literature of the theory and practice of nonlinear dynamics and chaos."-Theo Tuwankotta, Institute of Technology,ITB, Bandung, Indonesia

• Preface. Bifurcation and Degenerate Decomposition in Multiple Time Scale Dynamical Systems. Many-body quantum mechanics. Unfolding Complexity: Hereditory Dynamical Systems-New Bifurcation Schemes and High Dimensional Chaos. Creating stability out of instability.Signal or Noise? A nonlinear dynamics approach to spatiotemporal communication. Outstanding problems in the theory of pattern formation. Is Chaos relevant to Fluid Mechanics?. Time-Reversed Acoustics and Chaos.Reduction methods applied to nonlocally coupled oscillator systems. A prime number of prime questions about vortex dynamcis in nonlinear media. Spontaneous pattern formation in primary visual cortex. Models for Pattern Formation in Development. Spatiotemporal nonlinear dynamics: a new beginning. Author index.