Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cargese, Corsica, France, 18-31 July, 1988
Contents .- Course 1: Random Fluctuations and Transport.- Some Themes
and Common Tools.- Structure, Elasticity and Thermal Properties of Silica
Networks.- Anomalous Diffusion and Fractons in Disordered Structures.-
Fractons in Real Fractals.- Anomalous Transport in Disordered Structures:
Effect of Additional Disorder.- Information Exponents for Transport in
Regular Lattices and Fractals.- Anomalous Transport in Random Linear
Structures.- Course 2: Random Growth Patterns: Aggregation.- Morphological
Transitions in Pattern Growth Phenomena.- Visualization and Characterization
of Microparticle Growth Patterns.- Origin of Fractal Roughness in Synthetic
and Natural Materials.- Electrodeposition.- Course 3: Random Fluctuations in
Fluid Systems.- Flow Patterns in Porous Media.- Viscous Fingering in a
Circular Geometry.- Construction of a Radial Hele-Shaw Cell.- Growth and
Viscous Fingers on Percolating Porous Media.- Structure of Miscible and
Immiscible Displacement Fronts in Porous Media.- Dynamics of Invasion
Percolation.- Course 4: Random Fluctuations in Liquid Crystals.- Directional
Solidification of Liquid Crystals.- Interfacial Instabilities of Condensed
Phase Domains in Lipid Monolayers.- Pattern Formation of Molecules Adsorbing
on Lipid Monolayers.- Course 5: Random Fluctuations in Solid Materials.- to
Dense Branching Morphology.- The Material Factors Leading to Dense Branching
Morphology in Al:Ge Thin Films.- Theoretical Aspects of Polycrystalline
Pattern Growth in Al/Ge Films.- Pattern Formation in Dendritic
Solidification.- Relaxation of Excitations in Porous Solids.- Soap BubblesA
Simple Model System for Solids.- Course 6: Fracture of Disordered Solids.- to
Modern Ideas on Fracture Patterns.- Rupture in Random Media.- Fracture
Experiments onMonolayers of Microspheres.- Simple Models for Colloidal
Aggregation, Dielectric Breakdown and Mechanical Breakdown Patterns.-
Dielectric Breakdown Patterns with a Growth Probability Threshold.- Course 7:
Fluctuation Phenomena in Membranes and Random Surfaces.- The Statistical
Mechanics of Crumpled Membranes.- Fluctuations in Fluid and Hexatic
Membranes.- Unbinding Transition and Mutual Adhesion in General of DGDG
Membranes.- Scaling Properties of Interfaces and Membranes.- Surfactants in
Solution: An Experimental Tool to Study Fluctuating Surfaces.- Course 8:
Convection, Turbulence and Multifractals.- to Convection.- Onset of
Convection.- Waves and Plumes in Thermal Convection.- An Introduction to
Multifractal Distribution Functions.- Multifractals in Convection and
Aggregation.- Multifractal Analysis of Sedimentary Rocks.- Phase Transition
on DLA.- Course 9: Random Fluctuations and Complex Systems.- Disordered
Patterns in Deterministic Growth.- 1/f Versus 1/f? Noise.- A Simple Model of
Molecular Evolution.- Scale Invariant Spacial and Temporal Fluctuations in
Complex Systems.- The Upper Critical Dimension and ?-Expansion for
Self-Organized Critical Phenomena.- Self-Organized Criticality and the Origin
of Fractal Growth.- Finite Lifetime Effects in Models of Epidemics.- to
Droplet Growth Processes: Simulations, Theory and Experiments.- List of
Participants.
