Bücher der Reihe Centre de Physique des Houches

Starbursts are regions of unusually rapid star formation often located in the central parts of galaxies.

The 1997 Les Houches workshop on "Dynamical Network in Physics and Biology" was the third in a series of meetings "At the Frontier between Physics and Biology". The specific aim of the workshop was to bridge the gap between physics and biology in the particular field of interconnected dynamical networks.

Numerical large-eddy simulation techniques are booming at present and will have a decisive impact on industrial modeling and flow control.

The subjects that were covered by the lectures can be broadly grouped into four main categories: optical soliton the ory, fiber soliton telecommunications, optical soliton generation methods, and all-optical information processing via spatial solitons.

This text is taken from a course held in Les Houches and includes information on: the preparation of industrial catalysts; the electronic structure of metals and alloys; and the characterization of metallic catalysts by X-ray and electron microscopy techniques.

Among the several distinct ways of formulating and quantizing a Hamiltonian system, the light cone approach enjoys special status because it has the largest stability group.

In the last few years, hopes have emerged that simple concepts could perhaps explain the extremely complicated biomolecular processes which are known to a greater and greater accuracy thanks to the extraordinary progress of biology.

This book is a collection of part of the written versions of the Physics Courses given at the Winter School "Order, Chance and Risk: Aperiodic Phenomena from Solid State to Finance" held at the Les Houches Center for Physics, between February 23 and March 6, 1998.

The discovery of bright visible light emission from porous silicon has opened the door to various nanometer sized silicon structures where the confinement of carriers gives rise to interesting physical properties.

This work presents geometric and topological properties of quasicrystals and studies diffraction theory of long-range objects with non-trivial order. The book aims to provide a rigorous framework for sequences generation and Fourier analysis.

It covers quantum mechanical calculations of large systems, molecular dynamics combining quantum and classical algorithms, quantum dynamical simulations, and electron and proton transfer processes in proteins and in solutions.

Starbursts are regions of unusually rapid star formation, often located in the central parts of galaxies. How does the feedback from stars influence the interstellar medium and self-regulate star formation?

Les Houches School, October 11-15, 1999