Evolution of Order and Chaos : In Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Proceedings of the International Symposium on Synergetics at Schloß Elmau, Bavaria, April 26–May 1, 1982

These proceedings contain the invited lectures presented at the International Sym­ posium on Synergetics at Schloss Elmau in April, 1982. This symposium marked the th 10 anniversary of symposia on synergetics, the first of which was held at Schloss Elmau in 1972. As is now weIl known, these symposia are devoted to the study of the formation of structures in physical systems far from thermal equilibrium, as weIl as in nonphysical systems such as those in biology and sociology. While the first proceedings were published by Teubner Publishing Company in 1973 and the second by North Holland Publishing Company in 1974, the subsequent proceed­ ings have been published in the Springer Series in Synergetics. I believe that these proceedings give a quite faithful picture of the developments in this new interdisciplinary field over the past decade. As H.J. Queisser recently noted, the prefix "non", which is used quite frequent­ ly in modern scientific literature in words such as "nonequilibrium", "nonlinear", etc., indicates a new development in scientific thinking. Indeed, this new develop­ ment was anticipated and given a framework in the introduction of "synergetics" more than a decade ago. Front Matter....Pages I-VIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introductory Remarks....Pages 2-4 Front Matter....Pages 5-5 Ursprung und Evolution des Lebens auf molekularer Ebene....Pages 6-23 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 The Crystallization and Selection of Dynamical Order in the Evolution of Metazoan Gene Regulation....Pages 26-35 The Synergetics of Actin-Myosin in Active Streaming and Muscle Contraction....Pages 36-49 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Pattern Formation in Magnetic Fluids....Pages 52-64 Thermoelastic Instabilities in Metals....Pages 65-73 Spatial Chemical Structures, Chemical Waves. A Review....Pages 74-99 Spontaneous Biological Pattern Formation in the Three-Dimensional Sphere. Prepatterns in Mitosis and Cytokinesis....Pages 100-111 Generation of Projections in the Developing and Regenerating Nervous System....Pages 112-117 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 Optical Bistability, Self-Pulsing and Higher-Order Bifurcations....Pages 120-131 Benard Convection and Laser with Saturable Absorber. Oscillations and Chaos....Pages 132-145 Bistability and Chaos in NMR Systems....Pages 146-156 The Onset of Turbulence in the Wake of an Ion....Pages 157-162 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 Diversity and Universality. Spectral Structure of Discrete Time Evolution....Pages 164-173 Onset of Chaos in Fluid Dynamics....Pages 174-182 Transition to Chaos for Maps with Positive Schwarzian Derivative....Pages 183-186 Scaling Properties of Discrete Dynamical Systems....Pages 187-196 Phase Transitions in the Homoclinic Regime of Area Preserving Diffeomorphisms....Pages 197-214 Noise Scaling of Symbolic Dynamics Entropies....Pages 215-227 Dimension, Fractal Measures, and Chaotic Dynamics....Pages 228-246 Front Matter....Pages 247-247 Cooperative and Chaotic Effects in a Hamiltonian Model of the Free-Electron Laser....Pages 248-254 Chaos in Quantum Mechanics....Pages 255-261 Front Matter....Pages 263-263 Criticality and the Emergence of Structure....Pages 264-269 Strange Stability in Hierarchically Coupled Neuropsychobiological Systems....Pages 270-286 Back Matter....Pages 287-287