Proceedings of the 4th Experimental Chaos Conference

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• I. Introduction

• II. Spatio-Temporal Chaos and Patterns

  • Formation of Labyrinthine Patterns in a Periodically Forced Reaction-Diffusion Model

  • Chaotic Temporal Patterns in Arrays of Mass-Flow Coupled Chemical Oscillators and Excitators

  • Perturbation-Induced Scroll Waves in Photosensitive Excitable Media

  • Propagating Convection in Spiral Waves

  • Visualization, Animation and K-L Decomposition of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in a Pattern-Forming System

  • Comparison Between Surface Image Analysis and Time-Series Analysis of Electrochemical Noise in Corrosion Processes

  • Sequential Oscillations in the Belousov-Zhabotinesky Reaction Employing Mixed Substrates

• III. Quantum Chaos (Dots, R.F. Waves, Acoustic Waves, Etc.)

  • Feedback Control of a Quantum Dot

  • Atom Optics As a New Experimental Testing Ground for Quantum Chaos

• IV. Optics

  • Optical Chaos, Turbulence, Soliton Gas

  • Faraday Instability and Pattern Formation Inside a Laser Spectrum

  • Takens-Bogdanov Bifurcation in Optical Patterns

  • Stabilizing Lead-Salt Diode Lasers: Measuring and Controlling Chaotic Frequency Emission

  • Splitting of Attractors Induced by Resonant Perturbation

  • Complex Waveforms in the Response of Opto-Thermal Nonlinear Oscillators

  • Model Validation and Symbolic Dynamics of Chaotic Lasers Using Template Analysis

• V. Hydrodynamics (Includes Meteorology/Oceanography)

  • Regular and Chaotic Flow Patterns Upon Impulsive Spin-Up of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection Cell

  • Chaotic Scattering in a Fluid Wake

  • Nonlinear Effects and Behavior in Nucleate Boiling

  • Chaos Control in Open Flows: Experiments in An Axisymmetric Jet

  • Bifurcation Analysis of Symmetrical Structures in Argon Plasma as Specified By Experimental Boundary Conditions

• VI. Biology

  • An Improved Technique for Visualization of the Spatiotemporal Complexity of Ventricular Fibrillation

  • Relations Among EEGs from Entorhinal Cortex, Olfactory Bulb, Somatomotor, Auditory and Visual Cortices in Trained Cats

  • Nonlinear Analysis of Synchronized Cell Suspensions: Theoretical and Experimental Aspects

  • ODEs in Complex Time Domain and Time Series Analysis

  • Embedding Chaos in Spike Trains from Rat Sensory Neurons

• VII. Condensed Matter Systems

  • Granular Dynamics: Shearing, Shaking and Mixing

  • Microstructures and Physical Properties of Composite Materials Evolved from Chaos

  • Stochastic Resonance Without Noise

• VIII. Control of Chaos

  • Experiment on Surface-Tension-Driven Convection

  • Control of a System with Two Unstable Manifolds

  • Control of Chaos in Extended Plasma Systems

  • Controlling and Maintaining Chaos in High Dimensions

  • Control of Chaos and Tracking by Negative Feedback

• IX. Time-Series Analysis

  • Delay Differential Equations for Classifying Noisy Data

  • Finding Unstable Periodic Orbits in Physical and Biological Dynamical Systems

• X. Mechanical Systems

  • Simulations and Experiments of the Nonlinear Hysteresis Loop for Rotor-Bearing Instability

  • Chaos in a Cutting Process

  • Chaos and Hysteresis in Dynamics of Coupled Structures: Experiment and Theory

  • Cycle-By-Cycle Combustion Variations in Spark-Ignited Engines

  • Complex Modulated Motions in a Weakly Nonlinear System: The Spherical Pendulum

  • Chaotic Roll Motion of a Flooded Ship in Regular Beam Waves

• XI. Lunch

  • Eigenfunction Themes and Ergodic Variations in Jazz and Classical Music

• XII. Synchronization of Chaotic Systems

  • Intermittent Loss of Synchronized Chaos Under Conditions When High-Quality Synchronization is Expected

  • An Approach for Communications With Chaotic Waveforms

  • Synchronization and Parameter Tracking in Chaotic Systems

  • Chaotic Communications Using Nonlinear Automatic Frequency Control Circuits

• XIII. General

  • A Chaotic Mapping for Musical and Image Variation

  • From Nerve Chaos to Chaos Chips

  • Stellar Arrhythmias

  • Using Chaos to Generate Choreographic Variations

  • Search for Droplet Time Interval Dynamics in Arc Welding

  • Chaos and Integrability in the Fundamental Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations for Surface Water Waves