Proceedings of the May 1991 workshop, held in Crete, Greece, within the program of activities of the NATO Special Program on Chaos, Order, and Patterns. Participants were physicists, biologists, and chemists, theoreticians and experimentalists, exchanging perspectives and data on proton transfer, th

These 37 papers are from the multidisciplinary NATO Advanced Study Institute on Chaotic Dynamics held in Patras, Greece, in July 1991. Among the diverse topics discussed were complexity, control and data representation; celestial mechanics and cosmology; controlling dynamical systems; semiconductors

Charge transport through the transfer of protons between molecules has long been recognized as a fundamental process, which plays an important role in many chemical reactions. In particular, proton transfer through Hydrogen (H-) bonds has been identified as the main mechanism, via which many bio- logical functions are performed and many properties of such basic substances as proteins and ice can be understood. In this volume, several of these important aspects of the H-bond are rep- resented. As the division in different sections already indicates, present day research in proton teansfer in...

Many conferences, meetings, workshops, summer schools and symposia on nonlinear dynamical systems are being organized these days, dealing with a great variety of topics and themes -classical and quantum, theoretical and experimental. Some focus on integrability, or discuss the mathematical foundations of chaos. Others explore the beauty of fractals, or examine endless possibilities of applications to problems of physics, chemistry, biology and other sciences. A new scientific discipline has thus emerged, with its own distinct philosophical viewpoint and an impressive arsenal of new methods...