Bifurcation phenomena in mathematical physics and related topics : proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Cargèse, Corsica, France, June 24-July 7, 1979

I Bifurcation in mathematics and applications.- Mathematical Theory of Bifurcation.- Remarks on the Stability of Steady-State Solutions of Reaction-Diffusion Equations.- Successive Bifurcations and the Ice-Age Problem.- II Bifurcation in Theoretical Physics and Statistical Mechanics Applications.- Critical Phenomena in Statistical Mechanics Aspects of Renormalization Group Theory.- Lattice Renormalization of Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory.- The Continuous-Spin, Ising Model of Field Theory and the Renormalization Group.- Bifurcations for Maps.- Critical Properties of One Dimensional Mappings.- Intermittency: A Simple Mechanism of Continuous Transition from Order to Chaos.- Metal-Insulator Transition in One-Dimensional Deformable Lattices.- Sets of Minimum Capacity, Pade Approximants and the Bubble Problem.- Bifurcations in the Diophant Moment Problem.- III Yang-Mills Field Theory.- Yang-Mills Fields: Semi Classical Aspects.- Propagation of the Energy of Yang-Mills Fields.- Euclidean Yang-Mills and Related Equations.- Existence of Stationary States in Nonlinear Scalar Field Equations.- IV Solitons in Physics and in Algebraic Geometry.- Solitons: Inverse Scattering Theory and its Applications.- New Results on the Nonlinear Boltzmann Equation.- Solvable Many-Body Problems and Related Mathematical Findings (and Conjectures).- Riemann Monodromy Problem, Isomonodromy Deformation Equations and Completely Integrable Systems.- Pade Approximation and the Riemann Monodromy Problem.- V Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications.- Nonlinear Evolution Equations of Schrodinger Type.- Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of Hyperbolic Balance Laws.- Nonlinear Problems Arising in the Study of Nematic Liquid Crystals.- Some Properties of Functional Invariant Sets for Navier-Stokes Equations.- An Introduction to the Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock Theory in Nuclear Physics.- List of Participants.