Edited by P. E. Cladis and P. Palffy-Muhoray

Preface
P. E. Cladis and P. Palffy-Muhoray

Amplitude Equations

Patterns in Nonlinear Optics: A Paradigm
A. C. Newell

The Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation for Beginners
W. van Saarloos

Disordered Regimes of the One-Dimensional Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
H. Chate

Vortex Solids and Vortex Liquids in a Complex Ginzburgh-Landau System
G. Huber

Pattern Formation at Phase Boundaries and Other Interfaces

The Grinfeld Instability of Stressed Crystals
P. Nozieres

Patterns of Stress-Driven Islanding in Solid Epitaxial and He-4 Films
M. Grinfeld

Selected Spacings During Directional Solidification of a Binary Alloy
J. A. Warren

Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Liquid Crystals
J. Bechhoefer

Nonequilibrium Phase Winding and Its Breakdown at a Chiral Interface
P. E. Cladis and H. R. Brand

Theory of Dendritic Growth in Three Dimensions
M. Ben Amar and E. Brener

The Effect of Noise on Dendritic Growth
Y. Saito and K. Shiraishi

Fractal and Compact Morphology of Growth Patterns
H. Mueller-Krumbhaar, T. Ihle, and A. Boesch

Pattern Formation in the Growth of Smectic A Liquid Crystals in Some Binary Mixtures
R. Pratibha and N. V. Madhusudana

Traveling Cellular Patterns and Parith Breaking at a Driven Interface
L. Pan and J. R. de Bruyn

The Fracture Transition in Swollen Polymer Networks
H. Zhao and J. V. Maher

Hydrodynamics in Complex and Simple Systems

Some Remarks About Second-Order Fluids
H. R. Brand

Patterns in Sheared Polymeric Nematics
R. G. Larson

New Instabilities in Colloidal Suspension Taylor-Couette Flow
J.-Y. Yuan and D. M. Ronis

Behavior of a One-Dimensional Chain of Nonlinear Oscillators
J. M. Flesselles, V. Croquette, S. Jucquois, and B. Janiaud

Domain Structures and Zig-Zag Patterns Modeled by a Fourth-Order Ginzburg-Landau Equation
D. Raitt and H. Riecke

Onset of Convection in Small-Aspect-Ratio Systems and Its Application to the g[super rightarrow]-Jitter Problem
S. J. Linz and S. H. Davis

Hopf Bifurcation by Frustrated Drifts
W. Zimmermann and R. Schmitz

Convection in a Rotating Cylinder in the Low Prandtl Number Limit
H. F. Goldstein and E. Knobloch

Dislocations in Hexagonal Patterns
L. S. Tsimring and M. I. Rabinovich

Electrohydrodynamic Convection in Liquid Crystals

Electroconvective Patterns in Freely Suspended Limit Crystal Films
S. Morris, J. R. de Bruyn, and A. D. May

Stability Diagram, Defect Turbulence, and New Patterns in Electroconvection in Nematics
S. Kai, Y. Adachi, and S. Nasuno

Phase Jump Lines in Two-Dimensional Patterns
S.-I. Sasa, T. Mizuguchi, and M. Sano

The Electrohydrodynamic Instability in a Homeotropically Aligned Nematic: Experimental Results
H. Richter, A. Buko, and I. Rehberg

Measurement of Material Parameters of the Nematic Liquid Crystal I52
M. Dennin, G. Ahlers, and D. S. Cannell

Dynamic Scattering Modes of Nematic Liquid Crystals in a Magnetic Field
J. P. McClymer, E. F. Carr, and H. Shehadeh

Phase Separation in Complex Systems

Spinodal Decomposition in Binary Fluid Mixtures
K. Kawasaki, T. Koga, M. Takenaka, and T. Hashimoto

Polymerization-Driven Phase Separation in Polymer-Liquid Crystal Systems
P. Palffy-Muhoray, J. Y. Kim, M. Mustafa, and T. Kyu

Pattern Formation in Ordering Dynamics Under Inhomogenous External Conditions
H. Furukawa

Alignment of Lamellar Block Copolymer Microstructure in an Electric Field
K. R. Amundson

Chemical and Materials Instabilities

Turing Structures in Chemical and Material Instabilities
D. Walgraef

Birth and Death of Spiral Waves
K. I. Agladaze, O. Steinbock, A. Wardo, and S. C. Mueller

Gradient-Free Structures in Liesegang Phenomena
S. Kai

Localized Structures in the Chlorine Dioxide-Iodide-Malonic Acid System
V. O. Pannbacker, O. Jensen, G. Dewell, P. Borckmans, and E. Mosekilde

The Theory of Motion of Spatial Waves in Oscillatory Media
I. Aranson, L. Kramer, and A. Weber

Chemistry-Flow Interactions: Stability Analysis of a Reaction-Diffusion-Convection System
C. R. Doering and W. Horsthemke

Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Patterns by Means of Empirical Orthogonal Functions
H. Herzel, K. Krischer, D. Berry, and I. Titze

Noise, Turbulence, Chaos, and Intermittency

The Effect of Noise on Spatio-Temporal Patterns
A. Hernandez-Machado

Noise-Induced Transition to Chaos
M. Frey and E. Simiu

Statistical Averages of Chaotically Evolving Patterns
C. B. Arnold, B. J. Gluckman, and J. P. Gollub

Freely Decaying Two-Dimensional Turbulence: A Quantitative Experimental Study
O. Cardoso, D. Marteau, and P. Tabeling

Spatio-Temporal Intermittency in a Roll Coating Experiment
M. Decre, E. Gailly, J.-M. Buchlin, and M. Rabaud

Self-Organized Intermittent Activity for Strings and Interfaces
K. Sneppen and M. H. Jensen

Failure of Hierarchically Structured Materials: Statics, and Dynamics
W. I. Newman, A. M. Gabrielov, S. L. Phoenix, and D. L. Turcotte

Pattern Formation in Biological Systems

Self-Affine Roughening of Bacteria Colony Surfaces
T. Vicsek, A. Czirok, O. Shochet, and E. Ben-Jacob

Growth and Morphological Changes of Bacteria Colonies
M. Matsushita, J.-I. Wakita, and T. Matsuyama

Evolution of Complexity During Growth of Bacterial Colonies
E. Ben-Jacob, O. Shochet, A. Tenenbaum, and O. Avidan

Microbial Consumption Patterns
J. O. Kessler and N. A. Hill

A Nonequilibrium Statistical Field Theory of Swarms and Other Spatially Extended Complex Systems
M. M. Millonas

Abnormal Spatiotemporal Growth
L. Lam, M. C. Veinott, and R. D. Pochy

Index