Modern challenges in statistical mechanics
Subtitle: patterns, noise, and the interplay of nonlinearity and complexity : Pan American Advanced Studies Institute, Bariloche, Argentina, 2-15 June 2002
By: editors, V.M. Kenkre, Katja Lindenberg.
Contributors: Kenkre, V. M. 1946-; Lindenberg, Katja.
Series: AIP conference proceedings,; v. 658; AIP conference proceedings ;; no. 658.
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Melville, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Statistical mechanics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Noise induced phenomena : a sampler -- H.S. Wio and K. Lindenberg; title: Memory formalism, nonlinear techniques, and kinetic equation approaches -- V.M. Kenkre; title: Boltzmann, ratchets, and avalanches -- V. Romero-Rochín; title: Applications of Monte Carlo methods to the study of far-from-equilibrium systems -- A. De Virgiliis ... [et al.]; title: Models of social processes on small-world networks -- D.H. Zanette; title: Concerning the combined effect of bias and disorder : the generalized effective medium approximation -- M.O. Cáceres -- A; title: geometric theory of biological motility -- D. Astumian; title: Self-organization processes at the intracellular level -- S. Ponce Dawson; title: Dynamics of infection and spread of diseases -- R.M. Zorzenon dos Santos; title: Waves of Hanta -- G. Abramson; title: Statistical description of associative memory -- I. Samengo; title: Resonant chemical oscillations : pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems -- A.L. Lin; title: Waves and topological structures in vibrated granular materials -- F. Melo; title: Impulse propagation in granular systems -- S. Sen ... [et al.]; title: Nonequilibrium structures and dynamic transitions in driven vortex lattices with disorder -- A.B. Kolton and D. Domínguez.