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Group Theoretical Methods in Physics 2006

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Proceedings of the XXVI International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (Group 26), held in New York, USA, 26 – 30 June 2006

Edited by Joseph L Birman, Sultan Catto and Bogdan Nicolescu

Founded in 1961, the Graduate Center is the doctorate-granting institution
of the City University of New York (CUNY). The Graduate Center is
a nationally unique consortium consisting of a core faculty of 125
Graduate Center appointments, supplemented by over 1600 additional faculty
members drawn from throughout CUNY’s eleven senior colleges and
New York City’s leading cultural and scientific institutions. The Graduate
Center houses twenty-nine interdisciplinary research centers and institutes,
enrolls 4000 students and has an alumni base of 9600. It is located in
Midtown Manhattan, in a nine-story landmark, formerly the B. Altman
department store, diagonally opposite the Empire State Building.
This book is a collection of all the papers contributed by participants of
Group 26. There were 140 participants attending from various corners of
the world. The meeting covered some 22 topics, and was divided into 3
sessions running simultaneously over a period of 5 days.
As it has been the tradition for the last few Colloquia, the Wigner Medal
and the Herman Weyl Prize were awarded during the conference. The
Wigner Medal was presented to Professor Susumu Okubo, with the
Laudatio written by the Chair of the 2006 Wigner Prize Committee
Professor Kazuhiko Nishijima and Professor Catto, and was delivered by
Professor Sultan Catto. A second special session was devoted to the presentation
of the Weyl Prize to Professor Bojko Bakalov with the Laudatio
delivered by Professor Jean-Pierre Gazeau.

This title is available from Canopus Academic Publishing. If you wish to obtain a copy or are entitled to a copy as a delegate at the conference please contact Canopus Academic Publishing by email.

Edited by:

Joseph L Birman, Sultan Catto and Bogdan Nicolescu

Edited by Joseph L. Birman, Sultan Catto and Bogdan Nicolescu

Handbook of Spintronics – David Awschalom, Junsaku Nitta & Yongbing Xu (Eds.)

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The Handbook of Spintronics will be a 1500+pp, multi-volume large format reference work covering all aspects of spintronics. Published by Springer-SBM in collaboration with Canopus Academic Publishing, it will form part of the Springer Major Reference Work series. It will be published in both conventional (print) format and online through the Springer e-book programme.

Over three volumes, the Handbook of Spintronics will cover all aspects of spintronics science and technology, including fundamental physics, materials properties and processing, established and emerging device technology and applications.

Editors-in-Chief:

Professor David Awschalom
University of California
Santa Barbara
USA

Professor Junsaku Nitta
Tohoku University
Japan

Professor Yongbing Xu
University of York
UK

For further details, see the project website.

The Painleve Handbook – Robert Conte and Micheline Musette

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Nonlinear differential or difference equations are encountered not only in mathematics, but also in many areas of physics (evolution equations, propagation of a signal in an optical fiber), chemistry (reaction-diffusion systems), and biology (competition of species).
This book introduces the reader to methods allowing one to build explicit solutions to these equations. A prerequisite task is to investigate whether the chances of success are high or low, and this can be achieved without any a priori knowledge of the solutions, with a powerful algorithm presented in detail called the Painlevé test. If the equation under study passes the Painlevé test, the equation is presumed integrable. If on the contrary the test fails, the system is nonintegrable or even chaotic, but it may still be possible to find solutions.
The examples chosen to illustrate these methods are mostly taken from physics. These include on the integrable side the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (continuous and discrete), the Korteweg-de Vries equation, the Hénon-Heiles Hamiltonians, on the nonintegrable side the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (encountered in optical fibers, turbulence, etc), the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation (phase turbulence), the Kolmogorov-Petrovski-Piskunov equation (KPP, a reaction-diffusion model), the Lorenz model of atmospheric circulation and the Bianchi IX cosmological model.

Written at a graduate level, the book contains tutorial text as well as detailed examples and the state of the art on some current research.

2008, XXIV, 256 p. 6 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8490-4

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Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions – Volume 1: Absorbing Phase Transitions – Malte Henkel, Haye Hinrichsen and Sven Lübeck

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This book is volume 1 of a two-volume set which describes two main classes of non-equilibrium phase-transitions: static and dynamics of transitions into an absorbing state. Volume 2 will describe dynamical scaling in far-from-equilibrium relaxation behaviour and ageing.

The book begins with an introductory chapter which recalls the main concepts of phase-transitions, set for the convenience of the reader in an equilibrium context. The extension to non-equilibrium systems is made by using directed percolation as the main paradigm of absorbing phase transitions and in view of the richness of the known results an entire chapter is devoted to it, including a discussion of recent experimental results. Scaling theories and a large set of both numerical and analytical methods for the study of non-equilibrium phase transitions are thoroughly discussed.

The techniques used for directed percolation are then extended to other universality classes and many important results on model parameters are provided for easy reference.

Series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

2009, IV, 454 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8764-6 £76

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Volume 2: Dynamical Scaling far from Equilibrium, by Prof. Malte Henkel and Dr Michael Pleimling is due for publication late 2009.

Volume 2 (Dynamical Scaling far from Equlibrium) will treat relaxation phenomena far from equilibrium and ageing. Motivated initially from experimental results, dynamical scaling has now been recognised as a cornerstone in the modern understanding in far from equilibrium relaxation. Dynamical scaling is systematically introduced, starting from coarsening phenomena, and existing analytical results and numerical estimates of universal non-equilibrium exponents and scaling functions are reviewed in detail.
Recent theoretical work aims to understand if dynamical scaling may be just a part of a larger symmetry, called local scaling. Initially, this was motivated by certain analogies with the conformal invariance of equilibrium phase transitions but only recently, this work reached a certain completion and this research is presented, systematically and in detail, in book form for the first time.
Quite similar ideas apply to the phase transitions of equilibrium systems with competing interactions and interesting physical realisations, for example in Lifshitz points.

Polygons, Polyominoes and Polycubes – Anthony J. Guttmann, Ed.

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This unique book gives a comprehensive account of new mathematical tools used to solve polygon problems.

In the 20th and 21st centuries, many problems in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical chemistry – and more recently in molecular biology and bio-informatics – can be expressed as counting problems, in which specified graphs, or shapes, are counted.

One very special class of shapes is that of polygons. These are closed, connected paths in space. We usually sketch them in two-dimensions, but they can exist in any dimension. The typical questions asked include “how many are there of a given perimeter?”, “how big is the average polygon of given perimeter?”, and corresponding questions about the area or volume enclosed. That is to say “how many enclosing a given area?” and “how large is an average polygon of given area?” Simple though these questions are to pose, they are extraordinarily difficult to answer. They are important questions because of the application of polygon, and the related problems of polyomino and polycube counting, to phenomena occurring in the natural world, and also because the study of these problems has been responsible for the development of powerful new techniques in mathematics and mathematical physics, as well as in computer science.These new techniques then find application more broadly.

The book brings together chapters from many of the major contributors in the field. An introductory chapter giving the history of the problem is followed by fourteen further chapters describing particular aspects of the problem, and applications to biology, to surface phenomena and to computer enumeration methods.

Series: Lecture Notes in Physics

1st Edition, 2009, Approx. 520 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9926-7

£81.00

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Numerical Continuation Methods for Dynamical Systems – Bernd Krauskopf et. al. (Eds)

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Path following in combination with boundary value problem solvers has emerged as a continuing and strong influence in the development of dynamical systems theory and its application. It is widely acknowledged that the software package AUTO – developed by Eusebius J. Doedel about thirty years ago and further expanded and developed ever since – plays a central role in the brief history of numerical continuation.

This book has been compiled on the occasion of Sebius Doedel’s 60th birthday. Bringing together for the first time a large amount of material in a single, accessible source, it is hoped that the book will become the natural entry point for researchers in diverse disciplines who wish to learn what numerical continuation techniques can achieve.The book opens with a foreword by Herbert B. Keller and lecture notes by Sebius Doedel himself that introduce the basic concepts of numerical bifurcation analysis. The other chapters by leading experts discuss continuation for various types of systems and objects and showcase examples of how numerical bifurcation analysis can be used in concrete applications. Topics that are treated include: interactive continuation tools, higher-dimensional continuation, the computation of invariant manifolds, and continuation techniques for slow-fast systems, for symmetric Hamiltonian systems, for spatially extended systems and for systems with delay. Three chapters review physical applications: the dynamics of a SQUID, global bifurcations in laser systems, and dynamics and bifurcations in electronic circuits.

Series: Understanding Complex Systems

Extent: 2007, 400pp illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6347-3 (print) / (e-book)
Price: £110.50 (UK) / €149.95 (Europe)

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Physics of Relativistic Objects in Compact Binaries: from Birth to Coalescence – Monica Colpi et al. (Eds)

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This book provides a comprehensive, authoritative and timely review of the astrophysical approach to the investigation of gravity theories. Particular attention is paid to strong-field tests of general relativity and alternative theories of gravity, performed using collapsed objects (neutron stars, black holes and white dwarfs) in relativistic binaries as laboratories.

The book starts with an introduction which gives the background linking experimental gravity in cosmic laboratories to astrophysics and fundamental physics. Subsequent chapters cover observational and theoretical aspects of the following topics: from binaries as test-beds of gravity theories to binary pulsars as cosmic laboratories; from binary star evolution to the formation of relativistic binaries; from short gamma-ray bursts to low mass X-ray binaries; from stellar-mass black hole binaries to coalescing super-massive black holes in galaxy mergers.

The book will be useful to researchers, PhD and graduate students in Astrophysics, Cosmology, Physics and Mathematics, who are interested in relativistic astrophysics, experimental gravity and general relativity.

Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

Extent: 378pp
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9263-3 (print) / (e-book)
Price: £127.00 (UK) / € (Europe)

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