Bücher der Reihe Monte Verita

Technik.

The Conference on "Statistical Science", held in Monte Verita (Switzerland) on 18/20 November 1996, was intended to honour the memory of Stefano Franscini at the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth (1796-1996).

The workshop was designed to survey the current understanding of water and solute transport through unsaturated soils under field conditions, and to foster research by discussing some unresolved key issues relative to transport modeling and experimentation in four "Think Tank" groups.

Das Centro Stefano Franscini der ETH Zürich macht es sich zur Aufgabe, wissen­ schaftliche Arbeitstagungen auf dem Monte Verita. oberhalb Ascona zu veranstalten. Organisatoren können Dozenten schweizerischer Hochschulen sein, die Themen sollen dem Bereich universitärer Forschung entsprechen. Das Polyprojekt "Risiko und Sicherheit technischer Systeme" der ETH Zürich hat zum Ziel, sich in einem interdisziplinären Rahmen mit technischen Risiken auseinan­ derzusetzen. Eine Kombination dieser beiden Zielsetzungen führte im November 1992 zu einem Workshop des Polyprojekts auf dem Monte Verita. zum Thema des gesellschaftlichen Umgangs mit technischen Katastrophenrisiken, mit Risiken also, die eine sehr kleine Eintretenswahrscheinlichkeit, aber ein sehr gros ses Schädigungspotential haben. Das vorliegende Buch dokumentiert das Ergebnis dieses Workshops. Es erhebt nicht den Anspruch, das Thema ausgeschöpft zu haben. Es will aber aufzeigen, wie unter­ schiedliche Disziplinen an das Thema herangehen, und damit einen Beitrag leisten zum interdisziplinären Gespräch. Wir erhoffen uns von diesem Buch, dass die darin enthal­ tenen Ansätze aufgenommen und in der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion weitergeführt werden.

The workshop was designed to survey the current understanding of water and solute transport through unsaturated soils under field conditions, and to foster research by discussing some unresolved key issues relative to transport modeling and experimentation in four "Think Tank" groups.

The Conference on "Statistical Science", held in Monte Verita (Switzerland) on 18/20 November 1996, was intended to honour the memory of Stefano Franscini at the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth (1796-1996).

Unter den Gattungen der antiken Literatur ist nach Jahren der Ver­ nachUissigung in der letzten Zeit ein besonderes Interesse am griechisch­ romischen Roman festzustellen. Die vom 27. -31. Marz 1995 im Centro Stefano Franscini von den beiden Unterzeichnenden organisierte Tagung wollte diesem neu erwachten Interesse in zweifacher Weise gerecht wer­ den: Einerseits wollten wir ein Forum bieten, urn die oft kontroversen Forschungsstandpunkte zu diskutieren und dadurch eventuell neue Mog­ lichkeiten des Zugangs zu den erzahlenden Texten der Antike zu erOff­ nen, andrerseits sollten die vielfaltigen Beziehungen zwischen den antiken und mittelalterlichen Erzahlformen in interdisziplinarer Zusammenarbeit von Klassischen Philologen, Byzantinisten, Mediavisten und Romanisten erhellt werden. Die in dem vorliegenden Band publizierten Beitrage, die Uberarbeiteten Fassungen der auf dem Monte Verita gehaltenen Vortrage, belegen, so hoffen wir, die auBerst ertragreiche und anregende Zusam­ menarbeit der verschiedenen an der Tagung beteiligten literaturwissen­ schaftlichen Disziplinen. An dieser Stelle seien einige Worte des Dankes gestattet: Dem Centro Stefano Franscini und der ETH ZUrieh sei gedankt flir die Gastfreund­ schaft, die uns auf dem Monte Verita zuteil wurde, und fUr die Uberaus groBzUgige finanzielle UnterstUtzung, ohne die die Tagung nie hatte statt­ finden konnen. Frau Katia Bastianelli hat durch ihren nie ermUdenden Einsatz den reibungslosen Ablauf der Tagung moglich gemacht. Die ZUr­ cher Mitarbeiter, Tatiana Crivelli und Johannes Bartuschat, haben sich sowohl im Vorfeld der Tagung als auch in der redaktionellen Arbeit am vorliegenden Tagungsband selbstlos eingesetzt.

Advancements in digital sensor technology, digital image analysis techniques, as well as computer software and hardware have brought together the fields of computer vision and photogrammetry, which are now converging towards sharing, to a great extent, objectives and algorithms.

Massively Parallel Systems (MPSs) with their scalable computation and storage space promises are becoming increasingly important for high-performance computing.

Recent climatic shifts, based on mild winters and more hot summers have released vegetation shifts all over the world. The book presents numerous case studies from Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Caucasus, Italy, Ireland, China, Japan, United Staes, Brazil and Chile.

The idea of organising a colloquium on turbulence emerged during the sabbatical leave of Prof. Arkady Tsinober in Zurich. New experimental observations and the insight gained through direct numerical simulations have been stimulating research in turbulence and are leading to the developments of new concepts. The organisers felt the necessity to bring together researchers who have contributed significantly to the advances in this field in a colloquium in which the current achievements and the future development in the theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches would be discussed. The main emphasis of the colloquium was put on discussions. These discussions led to an interesting and exciting exchange of ideas, but also involved its very laborious transcription onto paper. It was due to the personal efforts of Mrs. A. Vyskocil, Dr. N. Malik and Dr. X. Studerus that this work could be completed. The colloquium was held in the relaxed atmosphere of the Centro Stefano Franscini in Monte Verita near Ascona, a locality of exceptional natural beauty, which was put at our disposal by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. We would like to express our gratitude for this generous financial and logistic support, which contributed considerably to the success of the colloquium. Zurich, April 1993 Th. Dracos, A. Tsinober Participants Adrian, R. J. Kambe, T. Antonia, R. A. Kit,E. Aref, H. Landahl, M. T. Betchov, R. Lesieur, M. Bewersdorff, H. -W. Malik, N. Castaing, B. Moffatt, H. K. Chen, J. Moin,P. Dracos, T. Mullin, T. Frisch, U. Novikov, E. A.

Contains the proceedings of a colloquium held in Monte Verita from September 9-13, 1991. This book presents the views of scientists on the importance of kinematic properties, topology and fractal geometry, and on the dynamic behaviour of turbulent flows.

It contains the following subjects: ferroelectric materials, physics of ferroelectrics, thin films, processing of ferroelectrics and their applications.

Robust Control is one of the fastest growing and promising areas of research today. However, this second workshop was restricted to robust control of dynamic systems with parameter uncertainties with the objective to concentrate on some aspects of robust control.

From Sunday evening, April 5, until Thursday afternoon, April 9, 1992,49 scientists from 10 countries met at the Centro Stefano Franscini on Monte VeritA overlooking Ascona, in the state of Ticino in Switzerland, for an international workshop on Muonic Atoms and Molecules. More than two-thirds of the participants presented their results in talks of 20 to 40 minutes' duration. In addition, Prof. Gabriele Torelli gave, under the patronage of the Ministro del Ambiente of the state of Ticino, Dr. Mario Camani, a lecture in Italian entitled "Un modo insolito di studiare Ie proprieta nucleari, atomiche e chimiche". The scientific program commenced on Monday morning with discussions centering on nuclear muon capture and nuclear fusion and fission, moving on to muonic atom spectroscopy in the afternoon. All of Tuesday was devoted to muon catalyzed fusion and muon transfer. On Wednesday morning, different aspects of hot muonic atoms were discussed, followed by informal gatherings in the afternoon and evening. On Thursday morning we took a look at the prospects for the TRIUMF and PSI meson factories, and new experimental methods. The conference was brought to a close in the afternoon with C. P. summarizing the events of the past days. The two organizers want to thank all participants for their contributions and for the lively discussions which often followed the different talks.

Advancements in digital sensor technology, digital image analysis techniques, as well as computer software and hardware have brought together the fields of computer vision and photogrammetry, which are now converging towards sharing, to a great extent, objectives and algorithms.