Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Eighth Conference held at Dundee, Scotland, June 25–29, 1984 / edited by Brian D. Sleeman, Richard J. Jarvis.

A stability result for the solutions of a certain system of third-order differential equations -- A local existence theorem for the quasilinear wave equation with initial values of bounded variation -- Bifurcation problems associated with nonlinear wave propagation -- Conditions for a limit set to be a singleton -- A hydrodynamical model of the sea hare’s propulsive mechanism -- Periodic solutions of some second order nonlinear differential equations with periodic coefficients -- Wiener obstacles for the biharmonic operator -- Inverse methods for reflector imaging -- Travelling wave front solutions of a differential-difference equation arising in the modelling of myelinated nerve axon -- The non-parametric influence of light on mammalian circadian rhythms -- On bifurcation for nondifferentiable perturbations of selfadjoint operators -- On surfaces defined by ordinary differential equations: A new approach to Hilbert’s 16th problem -- Self-adjointness for general elliptic operators with Sobolev-type coefficients -- On a Nehari’s constant -- Asymptotics of eigenvalues for some "non-definite" elliptic problems -- Optimal control of a system governed by hyperbolic operator -- A global study of a hamiltonian system with multi turning points -- Some further results on oscillatory behavior of solutions of nth order delay differential equations -- A model for a myelinated nerve axon -- Spatial patterning of the spruce budworm in the presence of defoliation -- Vector models for infectious diseases -- Multi-dimensional reaction-convection-diffusion equations -- On periodic solutions of forced second order differential equations with a deviating argument -- The theory of quasi periodic motions -- Stability criteria for linear integro-differential equations -- A mechanical model for biological pattern formation: A nonlinear bifurcation analysis -- Almost surely non-linear solutions of stochastic linear delay equations -- Properties of the set of global solutions for the cauchy problems in a locally convex topological vector space -- Boundary value problems for forced nonlinear equations at resonance -- Periodic-solutions of prescribed period for hamiltonian systems -- Bursting oscillations in an excitable membrane model -- Semilinear second order evolution equations and regular boundary conditions -- Symmetry-breaking for semilinear elliptic equations -- On a boundary value problem associated with some difference-differential equations -- A-proper maps and bifurcation theory -- On the singularities and asymptotic expansions of singular sturm-liouville expansions.