Nonlinearity with Disorder: Proceedings of the Tashkent Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, October 1-7, 1990

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In the past three decades there has been enormous progress in identifying
the essential role that nonlinearity plays in physical systems, including
supporting soliton-like solutions and self-trapped sxcitations such as

polarons. during the same period, similarly impressive progress

has occurred in understanding the effects of disorder in linear quantum problems, especially regarding Anderson localization arising from

impurities, random spatial structures, stochastic applied fields, and so

forth. These striking consequences of disorder, noise and nonlinearity frequently occur together in physical systems. Yet there have been only

limited attempts to develop systematic techniques which can include all of these ingredients, which may reinforce, complement or frustrate each

other. This book contains a range of articles which provide important steps toward the goal of systematic understanding and classification of

phenomenology. Experts from Australia, Europe, Japan, USA, and the

USSR describe both mathematical and numerical techniques - especially
from soliton and statistical physics disciplines - and applicaations to a
number of important physical systems and devices, including optical and

electronic transmission lines, liquid crystals, biophysics

and magnetism.