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Administrative Board of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry.<br /> <br /> Scientific Committee for Physics of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry.<br /> <br /> The Solvay Conferences in Physics.<br /> <br /> Preface.<br /> <br /> Openining Speech by J. Solvay.<br /> <br /> Introductory Remarks by I. Prigogine.<br /> <br /> PART ONE: DISCRETE MAPS.<br /> <br /> Non-Markovian Effects in the Standard Map (R. Balescu).<br /> <br /> Thermodynamics of a Simple Hamiltonian Chaotic System (H. Hasegawa).<br /> <br /> Harmonic Analysis of Unstable Systems (I. Antoniou and Z. Suchanecki).<br /> <br /> Properties of Permanent and Transient Chaos in Critical States (P. Szepfalusy).<br /> <br /> From Coupled Dynamical Systems to Biological Irreversibility (K. Kaneko).<br /> <br /> PART TWO: TRANSPORT AND DIFFUSION.<br /> <br /> Irreversibility in Reversible Multibaker Maps -- Transport and Fractal Distributions (S. Tasaki).<br /> <br /> Diffusion and the Poincare-Birkhoff Mapping of Chaotic Systems (P. Gaspard).<br /> <br /> Transport Theory for Collective Modes and Green-Kubo Formalism for Moderately Dense Gases (T. Petrosky).<br /> <br /> New Kinetic Laws of Cluster Formation in N-body Hamiltonian Systems (Y. Aizawa).<br /> <br /> PART THREE: QUANTUM THEORY, MEASUREMENT AND DECOHERENCE.<br /> <br /> Quantum Phenomena of Single Atoms (H. Walther).<br /> <br /> Quantum Superpositions and Decoherence: How To Detect Interference of Macroscopically Distinct Optical States (F.T. Arecchi and A. Montina).<br /> <br /> Quantum Decoherence and the Glauber Dynamics from the Stochastic Limit (L. Accardi and S. Kozyrev).<br /> <br /> CP-Violation as Antieigenvector-Breaking (K. Gustafson).<br /> <br /> PART FOUR: EXTENSION OF QUANTUM THEORY AND FIELD THEORY.<br /> <br /> Dynamics of Correlations: A Formalism for Both Integrable and Nonintegrable Dynamical Systems (I. Prigogine).<br /> <br /> Generalized Quantum Field Theory (E. Sudarshan and L. Boya).<br /> <br /> Age and Age Fluctuations in an Unstable Quantum System (G. Ordonez, T. Petrosky, E. Karpov).<br /> <br /> Microphysical Irreversibility and Time Asymmetric Quantum Mechanics (A. Bohm).<br /> <br /> Possible Origins of Quantum Fluctuation Given by Alternative Quantization Rules (M. Namiki).<br /> <br /> Author Index.<br /> <br /> Subject Index.

"...contains the proceedings of the XXI Solvay Conference on Physics held in Kasai Science City, Japan..." (Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 124, No. 35, 2002)

<b>Ioannis Antoniou</b> is Deputy Director of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry.

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