Nonlinear Physics: Theory and Experiment

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Workshop "Nonlinear Physics: Theory and Experiment" held in Gallipoli (Lecce, Italy) from June 29 to July 7, 1995. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together scientists whose common interest is the nature, structure and properties of nonlinear phenomena in various areas of physics and applied mathematics. An emphasis was made on both theory and experiments, the underlying objective being to realize a truly interdisciplinary workshop as all these domains have a lot to learn and teach one another. In fact, topics covered at the workshop run from nonlinear optics to molecular dynamics, plasma waves, hydrodynamics, quantum electronics and solid state, and from inverse scattering transform methods to dynamical systems including integrability, Hamiltonian structures, geometrical aspects, turbulence and chaos.