Table of Contents

Nonlinear Dynamics of Nanomechanical and Micromechanical Resonators

Delay Stabilization of Rotating Waves Without Odd Number Limitation

Random Boolean Networks

Return Intervals and Extreme Events in Persistant Time Series with Applications to Climate and Seismic Records

Factorizable Language: From Dynamics to Biology

Controlling Collective Synchrony by Feedback

About the Author

Editor: Heinz Georg Schuster

Editorial Board:

Christoph Adami, California Institute of Technology, USA

Stefan Bornholdt, University of Bremen, Germany

Wolfram Just, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Kunihiko Kaneko, University of Tokyo, Japan

Ron Lifshitz, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Berhard Mehlig, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Ernst Niebur, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Guenter Radons, TU Chemnitz, Germany

Eckehard Schoell, TU Berlin, Germany

Hong Zhao, Xiamen University, China





Heinz Georg Schuster is Professor (em.) of Theoretical Physics at the University of Kiel in Germany. In 1971 he attained his doctorate and in 1976 he was appointed Professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He was a visiting professor at the Weizmann-Institute of Science in Israel and at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA. He is author and editor of research monographs and topical handbooks on chaos theory, nonlinear dynamics and neural networks, but also on popular science books.