Advances in Dynamics, Patterns, Cognition

Part I: Chaos and Dynamics.- 1. Weak Transient Chaos.- 2. Lorenz type attractor in electronic parametric generator and its transformation outside the parametric resonance.- 3. Time Rescaling of Lyapunov Exponents.- 4. Unraveling the Chaos-land and its organization in the Rabinovich System.- 5. Anomalous transport in steady plane viscous flows: simple models.- Part II: Synchronization and Networks.- 6. Coherence-incoherence transition and properties of dierent types of chimeras in a network of nonlocally coupled chaotic maps.- 7. Regular and Chaotic Transition to Synchrony in a Star Configuration of Phase Oscillators.- 8. Lotka-Volterra like Dynamics in Phase Oscillator Networks.- 9. Intrinsic Stability, Time Delays and Transformations of Dynamical Networks.- 10. Discovering, Constructing, and Analyzing Synchronous Clusters of Oscillators in a Complex Network using Symmetries.- 11. When repulsive inhibition promotes synchrony of bursting neurons: Help from the enemy.- Part III: Brain.-12. The variational principles of cognition.- 13. Olfactory computation in insects.- 14. Respiratory Neural Network: Activity and Connectivity.- 15. Dynamics of odor-evoked activity patterns in the olfactory system.- 16. Dynamics of Intermittent Synchronization of Neural Activity.- Part IV: Waves.- 17. Vortices termination in the cardiac muscle.- 18. KDV soliton gas: interactions and turbulence.- 19. Multi-lump structures in the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation.

Dr. Igor Aronson is Senior Scientist and Theory Group Leader, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois; Dr. Arkady Pikovsky is Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany; Dr. Nikolai Rulkov is Research Scientist, BioCircuits Institute at the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and Dr. Lev S. Tsimring is Associate Director, BioCircuits Institute University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.