Universalities in Condensed Matter: Springer Proceedings in Physics, cartea 32

I Geometrical Approaches.- Hierarchy of Line Defects in Structures.- Are There Universalities in Systems with Frustrated Local Order?.- Contribution to the Theory of Quasicrystal Approximants.- Beyond Quasiperiodicity: Scaling Properties of a Fourier Spectrum.- The Fibonacci Chain Quasicrystal: An Exact Decimation Approach.- II Critical Scaling.- Experimental Investigations of the Sol-Gel Transition.- Conformation, Connectivity and Mechanical Properties of Polycondensates Near the Gel Point.- Conformation and Dynamical Properties of Polymer Clusters in Concentrated Solution.- Percolation and Dispersive Conduction in Fluid-Saturated Porous Media.- Microscopic Observation of Critical Fluctuations: Fractal Aspects.- Some Static and Dynamic Results for Walks on the Lattice.- Problem of Universality in Phase Transitions in Low-Symmetry Systems.- Exact Critical Properties of Two-Dimensional Polymer Networks from Conformai Invariance.- A Hierarchical Schrödinger Operator.- Universality and Nonuniversality in Frustrated Smectics.- A Langevin Equation Approach to Sine-Gordon Soliton Diffusion with Application to Nucleation Rates.- Disorder, Frustration and Critical Exponents.- Universality Classes of Fluctuating Membranes.- Diffusion Fronts of Interacting Particles.- Static Scaling with Tc Positive, Null or Negative.- Magnetic Frustration and Pairing in Doped Lathanum Cuprate.- III Ramified Structures and Fractals.- On the Shape of Trees: Tools to Describe Ramified Patterns.- Scaling and Universality in Multifractal Growth Processes.- Theory of Fractal Growth.- The Hunt for Universality in Fracture.- Multifractal Viscous Fingering and Non-Newtonian Growth.- Scattering by Fractal Structures.- Capillary Aggregation at an Interface.- Kinetics of Aggregation in a Sheared Dispersionof Macroscopic Spheres.- Reaction-Limited Aggregation: Recent Simulation Results.- Cluster-Cluster Aggregation of Magnetic Particles.- Diffusion Limited Aggregation on the Torus.- Filtered Operators and Ultrametricity.- IV Anomalous Scaling Laws.- Random Multiplicative Processes and Multifractals.- Universal Properties of Multifractal Moments: Analogies with Critical Phenomena.- Multifractal Analysis in the Circle Map: Analogies with Critical Phenomena.- Correlations in Multifractals.- Bulk and Surface Exponents at the d=2 ?-Point.- Rough Surfaces: Scaling Theory and Universality.- Computer Simulation of Random Ballistic Deposition.- V Dynamical Systems and Turbulence.- Scaling Properties of Soft Thermal Turbulence in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection.- The Organization of Chaos by Periodic Orbits: Topological Universality of Complex Systems.- Some Results on Lyapunov Exponents for Products of Random Matrices.- Relevance of Classical Chaos in Quantum Mechanics.- Intermittency and Equilibrium Measures in Dynamical Systems.- Chaos in a Model of Random Neural Networks.- Phase Transitions on Strange Attractors and Fractal Aggregates.- Diffusion of Passive Scalars in Fluid Flows: Maps in Three Dimensions.- Gap Road: Main Properties.- Dynamics and Damage Spreading in Cooperative Systems: A Numerical Search for Universality.- Universality in Relaxation of Disordered Systems.- Index of Contributors.