In natural and mathematical systems nonlinear structures, roughly speaking, are those resulting from nonlinear equations, the investigation of which forms a large and integral part of the new branch of science-the nonlinear science.

I Pattern Formation.- Bubbles and Fingers in Hele-Shaw Cells.- Pattern Formation in Electrodeposits.- Experiments on Electrodeposit Patterns.- Alloy Solidification as a Nonequilibrium Pattern-Forming System.- Wavelength Selection and Hidden Ramps in Directional Solidification.- Patterns in Directional Solidification.- Stability Analysis of Diffusion-Controlled Growth: Onset of Instabilities and Breakdown of the Linear Regime.- Static and Dynamic Patterns in Three-Dimensional Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Systems.- Pattern Formation in Chemical Systems.- Effects of Frustration: A Computational Study.- II Chaos.- Predicting Earthquakes.- Information and Its Metric.- Random and Chaotic Time Series Analysis: Minimum Phase-Volume Deconvolution.- Sudden Jumps in the Logistic Map with Periodic Modulation: Theory and Experiment.- III Convection and Waves.- Patterns and Dynamics in Traveling-Wave Convection.- A Laboratory Study of Planetary-Type Jets in a Rotating Annulus.- Pattern Selection in Rotating Convection.- Dynamics of A Moving Nematic-Isotropic Interface.- Lagrangian Particle Kinematics in Three-Dimensional Convection.- A Coupled-Map Lattice for Simulating Waves in Excitable Media.- IV Nonlinear Structures in Materials.- Nonlinear Dynamics of Domain Walls and Vortices in Two-Dimensional Systems.- Dynamics of Cellular Magnetic Domain Patterns.- Fractal Structure in Physical Space in the Dispersal of Particles in Fluids.- Self-Assembly and Diffusion in Chain Molecules, Including First Super-Strong Polymers.- Dynamics and Macroscopic Rigidity in Glassy Thin-Films.- Growth and Erosion of Thin Solid Films.- Hole Dynamics in a Quantum Antiferromagnet: Slave-Boson Generalized Flux States.- V Miscellaneous.- Persistence of Nonlinear Structures in Plasmas.- The Shapes of Random Walks with Fixed End-to-End Distance.- Nonlinear Polymer Diffusion with Interchange Reactions.- Dynamics of Premixed Flames.- On Perturbation Techniques in a Model Case from Planetary Waves Theory.- Transition Layer Dynamics.- Bifurcation Analysis of the Eckhaus Instability.- Degeneracy and Asymmetry in Biology.- Index of Contributors.

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