Dynamical Systems, Theory and Applications [electronic resource] : Battelle Seattle 1974 Rencontres / edited by J. Moser.

Time evolution of large classical systems -- Ergodic properties of infinite systems -- Time evolution and ergodic properties of harmonic systems -- The laser: A reversible quantum dynamical system with irreversible classical macroscopic motion -- What does it mean for a mechanical system to be isomorphic to the Bernoulli flow? -- The Geodesic flow on surfaces of negative curvature -- Lectures on the billiard -- Spectral invariants and smooth ergodic theory -- Nonlinear wave equations -- Integrable systems of nonlinear evolution equations -- Discrete and periodic illustrations of some aspects of the inverse method -- Finitely many mass points on the line under the influence of an exponential potential -- an integrable system -- On traveling wave solutions of nonlinear diffusion equations -- The existence of heteroclinic orbits, and applications -- Hadamard's generalization of hyperbolicity, with applications to the hopf bifurcation problem -- Hyperbolic sets and shift automorhpisms -- Triple collision in Newtonian gravitational systems -- Solutions of the collinear four body problem which become unbounded in finite time -- On optimal estimates for the solutions of linear partial differential equations of first order with constant coefficients on the torus.