Bifurcation, Symmetry and Patterns

Foreword by the Editors.- Organizing Committee.- Invited Speakers.- Invited Lectures.- Symmetry-Breaking as an Origin of Species.- Bifurcation and Planar Pattern Formation for a Liquid Crystal.- Patchwork Patterns: Dynamics on Unbounded Domains.- Persistent Ergodicity and Stably Ergodic SRB Attractors in Equivariant Dynamics.- Bistability of Vortex Modes in Annular Thermoconvection.- Secondary Instabilities of Hexagons: A Bifurcation Analysis of Experimentally Observed Faraday Wave Patterns.- Contributed Papers.- Spatially Resonant Interactions in Annular Convection.- Hopf Bifurcations on Cubic Lattices.- Normal Forms of Dynamical Systems and Bifurcations.- One-dimensional Pattern Formation in Systems with a Conserved Quantity.- Invariance and Symmetry in a Year-class Model.- The Accumulation of Boundary Doubling for Modified Tent Maps.- Piecewise Rotations: Bifurcations, Attractors and Symmetries.- Bound States of Asymmetric Hot Spots in Solid Flame Propagation.- Pattern Formation with Galilean Symmetry.- Semigroups of Functions and the Structure of Stationary Measures in Systems which Contract-on-average.- Rayleigh-Bénard Convection with Experimental Boundary Conditions.- Global Bifurcations in FitzHugh-Nagumo Model.- List of Contributors.- List of Participants.