Synergetics – from Microscopic to Macroscopic Order

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Synergetics at Berlin, July 4 – 8, 1983

ed. E. Frehland

Springer Series in Synergetics, Vol. 22

1984, Springer-Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-540-13131-0

Editor:

Priv. Doz. Dr. Eckart Frehland

Fakultäten für Biologie und Physik

Universität Konstanz

D-7750 Konstanz, Fed. Rep. of Germany

Contents

H. Haken (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, D-7000 Stuttgart): Some introductory remarks on synergetics, p. 1

Part I: Order, chaos, indeterminancies

B. Hess, M. Markus (Max-Planck-Institut für Ernährungsphysiologie, D-4600 Dortmund): Time pattern transitions in biochemical processes

C. Vidal (Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, F-33405 Talence): Chaotic behaviours observed in homogeneous chemical systems

G. Ahlers, D.S. Cannell (Dept. of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106): Wave-number selection in rotating Couette-Taylor flow

L.M. Narducci, D.K. Bandy, J.Y. Gao (Physics Dept., Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104); L.A. Lugiato (Istituto di Fisica, Università di Milano): Periodic and chaotic patterns in selected quantum optical systems

R. Graham (Universität Essen, Fachbereich Physik, D-4300 Essen): Chaos in lasers

F. Haake (Universität-Gesamthochschule Essen, Fachbereich Physik, D-4300 Essen): The falling pencil and superfluorescence: macroscopic indeterminacies after the decay of unstable equilibria

Part II: Ordered structures and processes in biomembranes

E. Sackmann (Physik Dept., Technische Universität München; D-8046 Garching): On the formation of transient order in biological membranes

K. Schulten, A. Brünger, W. Nadler, Z. Schulten (Physik Dept., Technische Universität München; D-8046 Garching): Generalized moment description of Brownian dynamics in biological systems

E. Frehland (Fakultäten für Biologie und Physik, Universität Konstanz, D-7750 Konstanz): Nonequilibrium current noise generated by ordered ion transport processes in biological membranes

H.T. Witt (Max-Volmer-Institut für Biophysikalische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, D-1000 Berlin 12): The molecular machine of photosynthesis-physico-chemical aspects

Part III: Evolution of structures

P. Schuster (Institut für Theoretische Chemie und Strahlenchemie der Universität Wien, A-1090 Wien): Polynucleotide replication and biological evolution

I. Rechenberg (Technische Universität Berlin, Fachgebiet Bionik und Evolutionstechnik, D-1000 Berlin 65): The evolution strategy: A mathematical model of Darwinian evolution

T. Ohta (National Institute of Genetics, Mishima 411, Japan): Multigene families and their implications for evolutionary theory

J.U. Keller (Institut für Thermodynamik, Technische Universität Berlin, D-1000 Berlin 12): Evolution of biothermodynamics systems

P.M. Allen, G. Engelen, M. Sanglier (Chimie-physique II, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-Bruxelles 1050): Self-organising dynamic models of human systems

Part IV: Social sciences

A. Wunderlin, H. Haken (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, D-7000 Stuttgart 80): Some applications of basic ideas and models of synergetics to sociology

A.B. Cambel (The Georg Washington University, Washington, DC 20052): A synergetic approach to energy-oriented models of socio-economic-technological problems

B. Fritsch (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Center for Economic Research, CH-8092 Zürich): New synergisms in socio-economic systems: more questions than answers

D.T. Spreng (Scientific Consultant on Energy and the Environment and Research Associate, Power System Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8092 Zürich): On the entropy of economic systems

Part V: Complex systems

F. Cramer (Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin, Abteilung Chemie, D-3400 Göttingen): Death- from microscopic to macroscopic disorder

G. Palm (Max-Planck-Institut für Biologische Kybernetik, D-7400 Tübingen): Local synaptic modification can lead to organized connectivity

D. Dörner (Psychologie II, Universität Bamberg, D-8600 Bamberg): The organization of action in time

G. Vollmer (Zentrum für Philosophie und Grundlagen der Wissenschaft, Justus-Liebig-Universität, 6300 Giessen): New problems for an old brain – synergetics, cognition and evolutionary