Universalities in Condensed Matter: Proceedings of the Workshop, Les Houches, France, March 1525,1988 [Paperback]

I Geometrical Approaches.- Hierarchy of Line Defects in Structures.- Are There Universalities in Systems with Frustrated Local Order?.- Contribution to the Theory of Quasicrystal Approximants.- Beyond Quasiperiodicity: Scaling Properties of a Fourier Spectrum.- The Fibonacci Chain Quasicrystal: An Exact Decimation Approach.- II Critical Scaling.- Experimental Investigations of the Sol-Gel Transition.- Conformation, Connectivity and Mechanical Properties of Polycondensates Near the Gel Point.- Conformation and Dynamical Properties of Polymer Clusters in Concentrated Solution.- Percolation and Dispersive Conduction in Fluid-Saturated Porous Media.- Microscopic Observation of Critical Fluctuations: Fractal Aspects.- Some Static and Dynamic Results for Walks on the Lattice.- Problem of Universality in Phase Transitions in Low-Symmetry Systems.- Exact Critical Properties of Two-Dimensional Polymer Networks from Conformai Invariance.- A Hierarchical Schr?dinger Operator.- Universality and Nonuniversality in Frustrated Smectics.- A Langevin Equation Approach to Sine-Gordon Soliton Diffusion with Application to Nucleation Rates.- Disorder, Frustration and Critical Exponents.- Universality Classes of Fluctuating Membranes.- Diffusion Fronts of Interacting Particles.- Static Scaling with Tc Positive, Null or Negative.- Magnetic Frustration and Pairing in Doped Lathanum Cuprate.- III Ramified Structures and Fractals.- On the Shape of Trees: Tools to Describe Ramified Patterns.- Scaling and Universality in Multifractal Growth Processes.- Theory of Fractal Growth.- The Hunt for Universality in Fracture.- Multifractal Viscous Fingering and Non-Newtonian Growth.- Scattering by Fractal Structures.- Capillary Aggregation at an Interface.- Kinetics of Aggregation in a Sheared Dispersionof Macroscopic Spheres.- Reaction-Limited Aggregation: Recent Simulation Results.- Cluster-Cluster Aggregation of Magnetic Particles.- Diffusion Limited Aggregation on the Torus.- Filtered Operators anlÓN