Dynamical Systems, Theory and Applications Battelle Seattle 1974 Rencontres

Time evolution of large classical systems.- Ergodic properties of infinite systems.- Time evolution and ergodic properties of harmonic systems.- The laser: A reversible quantum dynamical system with irreversible classical macroscopic motion.- What does it mean for a mechanical system to be isomorphic to the Bernoulli flow'.- The Geodesic flow on surfaces of negative curvature.- Lectures on the billiard.- Spectral invariants and smooth ergodic theory.- Nonlinear wave equations.- Integrable systems of nonlinear evolution equations.- Discrete and periodic illustrations of some aspects of the inverse method.- Finitely many mass points on the line under the influence of an exponential potential -- an integrable system.- On traveling wave solutions of nonlinear diffusion equations.- The existence of heteroclinic orbits, and applications.- Hadamard's generalization of hyperbolicity, with applications to the hopf bifurcation problem.- Hyperbolic sets and shift automorhpisms.- Triple collision in Newtonian gravitational systems.- Solutions of the collinear four body problem which become unbounded in finite time.- On optimal estimates for the solutions of linear partial differential equations of first order with constant coefficients on the torus.