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.