This is the first conference dedicated to the understanding of the experimental aspects of chaotic behavior in several fields and to addressing the emerging areas of data analysis and applications of nonlinear phenomena. Areas covered are data analysis and signal processing techniques, optics, applications of chaotic behavior, magnetism, nonlinear electronic circuits, spatiotemporal chaos, semiconductors, and physiology. Each paper shows real data and what can be done with it. Emphasis is on the manifestation of chaos in real systems, measuring it, analyzing it, and using it in new and unique applications.
Periodic saddle orbits, noise reduction and nonlinear prediction, E.
Kostelich; computation of Lyapunov exponents from time series data, P.
Bryant; an overview of some laser pulsations and assessment of their chaos
and turbulence, N.B. Abraham; self-organization and spatio-temporal chaos in
phase-locked semiconductor laser arrays, H.C. Winful; noise-driven nonlinear
resonators, noise squeezing and the noise rise, M. Bocko; experiments in
spatiotemporal chaos in solid mechanics, F.C. Moon; spatiotemporal chaos at
interfaces, J. Gollub; using spin waves to understand chaos, T.L. Carroll; a
strange nonchaotic attractor in the SQUID, F.E. Moss; experiments with
coupled nonlinear oscillators, P.S. Linsay; bursting and turbulance in
Couette-Taylor experiments, H.L. Swinney; space-charge dynamics in germanium,
R.M. Westervelt (part contents).
