During the last decade there has been a renewed interest in research on supramolecular assemblies in solutions, such as micelles and microemulsions, not only because of their extensive applications in industries dealing with catalysts, detergency, biotechnology, and enhanced oil recovery, but also due to the development of new and more powerful experimental and theoretical tools for probing the microscopic behavior of these systems. Prominent among the array of the newly available experimental techniques are photon correlation spectroscopy, small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering, and...

This Advanced Study Institute was held at -lellesley College, Wellesley, MA., from 3 to 12 August 1980. It followed by four years the second "Capri, chool on Photon Correlation Spectroscopy." During the intervening period there had been many new applications of dynamic light scattering techniques to the study of systems whose properties depend either on collective molecular interactions or on the formation or activity of supramo1ecu1ar structures. Con- sequently, emphasis at this conference was on light scattering studies of subjects such as dynamical correlations in dense polymer solutions,...