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This volume contains the invited lectures and a selection of the contributed papers and posters of the workshop on "Fluctuations and Sensitivity in Nonequil ibrium Systems", held at the Joe C. Thompson Conference Center, Un i vers ity of Texas at Austin, March 12-16, 1984. The workshop dealt with stochastic phenomena and sensi tivity in nonequilibrium systems from a macroscopic point of view. Durin9 the last few years it has been realized that the role of fluctuations is far less trivial in systems far from equilibrium than in systems under thermodynamic equilibrium condi tions. It was found that random fluctuations often are a determining factor for the state adopted by macroscopic systems and cannot be regarded as secondary effects of minor importance. Further, nonequilibrium systems are also very sensitive to small systematic changes in their environment. The main aims of the workshop were: i) to provide scientists with an occasion to acquaint themselves with the state of the art in fluctuation theory and sensitivity analysis; ii) to provide a forum for the presentation of recent advances in theory and experiment; iii) to bring toge ther theoreticians and experimentalists in order to delineate the major open problems and to formulate strategies to tackle these problems. The organizing committee of the workshop consisted of W. Horsthemke, O. K. Konde pudi, G. Dewel, G. Nicolis, I. Prigogine and L. Reichl.

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• Full title: Fluctuations and Sensitivity in Nonequilibrium Systems
• Subtitle: Proceedings of an International Conference, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, March 12-16, 1984
• Author: W. Horsthemke, D. K. Kondepudi
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• EAN: 9783642465109
• ISBN: 9783642465109
• ID: 06621798
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Weight: 502 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 170 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. February 2012

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