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Minerva Center for Nonlinear Physics of Complex Systems
Weizmann Institute of Science, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
(Established 1993)
Director
Prof. Itamar Procaccia
Weizmann Institute of Science
Dept. of Chemical Physics
Rehovot 76100 Israel
Tel. 00972 8 934 3918 and 4051
Fax 00972 8 934 4123
E-Mail: Itamar.Procaccia@weizmann.ac.il
Chairman of the Advisory Council
Prof. Dr. Heiner Müller-Krumbhaar
Institut für Festkörperforschung
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
52425 Jülich
Tel.: 02461/613428
Fax: 02461/612620
E-mail: h.mueller-krumbhaar@fz-juelich.de
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Fields of research/Forschungsgebiete
Physics of complex systems/Physik komplexer Systeme
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Key Words
Nonlinear dynamics, turbulence, pattern formation, roughening, chaos, quantum chaos applications
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Research activities and objectives
The objective of the center is to support research in
the general field of nonlinear dynamics and its applications
in various fields. The main topics of research
are: A systematic (ab initio) study of turbulent flows,
theoretical and experimental investigations of pattern
formations, pattern selection and variability, development
of fronts and coarsening. These studies are applied
to specific problems taken from astrophysics,
geophysics and biology. The manifestations of classical
chaos in the quantum domain are studied, with applications
to nuclear, atomic, molecular and solid state
(mesoscopic) physics.
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