Table of Contents

Stochastic Transport and Brownian Motion.- Directed Current Without Dissipation: Reincarnation of a Maxwell—Loschmidt Demon.- Molecular Motors and Stochastic Models.- Nonlinearly Coupled Chemical Reactions.- Thermodynamics of Isothermal Brownian Motors.- Rocking Ratchets at High Frequencies.- Defect Dragging in Periodic Structures.- Conduction in an Inhomogeneous Medium.- Theory and Control of Multiple Hopping in Activated Surface Diffusion.- Brownian Motion in a d-Dimensional Space with Fluctuating Friction.- Active Motion of Brownian Particles.- Diffusion in Granular Gases of Viscoelastic Particles.- Stochastic Resonance and Phase Synchronization.- Scaling of Noise and Constructive Aspects of Fluctuations.- Stochastic Resonances in Underdamped Bistable Systems.- Stochastic Resonance in a System of Coupled Asymmetric Resonators.- Optimizing Information Transmission in Model Neuronal Ensembles: The Role of Internal Noise.- Stochastic Resonance with Images and Spatially Correlated Stochastic Patterns.- Adiabatic and Non-adiabatic Resonances in Excitable Systems.- The Lighthouse Model of a Neural Net with Delay.- Noise-enhanced Phase Coherence in Ensembles of Stochastic Resonators.- Estimation of Synchronization from Noisy Data with Application to Human Brain Activity.- Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Dynamical Complexity.- Noise-Induced Phase Transitions and Reactive Processes.- Noise-Induced Order in Extended Systems: A Tutorial.- Linear Instability Mechanisms of Noise-Induced Phase Transitions.- Parametric Resonance Revisited.- On Noise-Induced Transitions in Nonlinear Oscillators.- The Kramers Oscillator Revisited.- Reactive Processes in Low Dimensions: Statistical and Dynamical Aspects.- On-Off Intermittency and Stochastic Stability in Nematics Driven byMultiplicative Noise.- Effect of Boundary Condition Fluctuations on Smoluchowski Reaction Rates.- Experimental Studies of Noise—Induced Phenomena in a Tunnel Diode.- Quantum Mechanical Model of Proton Transfer in a Fluctuating Potential Field of the Active Site of ?-Chymotrypsin.- Large Fluctuations and Noise in Chaotic Systems.- A Gentle Introduction to the Integration of Stochastic Differential Equations.- Controlling Large Fluctuations: Theory and Experiment.- Fluctuational Escape from a Chaotic Attractor.- Problems of a Statistical Ensemble Theory for Systems Far from Equilibrium.- Stochastic Approach to Lyapunov Exponents in Coupled Chaotic Systems.- Peculiarities of Nonhyperbolic Chaos.- Information of Open Systems.- Structure Formation.- Nonlinear Spatiotemporal Patterns in Globally Coupled Reaction-Diffusion Systems.- Segregation Effects in Randomly Mixed Diffusion-Controlled Binary Reactions.- Nonlinear Waves on Stochastic Support: Calcium Waves in Astrocyte Syncytia.- Stochastic Field Equation for Amorphous Surface Growth.- Epitaxial Growth with Elastic Interaction: Layer and Cluster Growth.- Stochastic Evolution of a Discrete Line: Numerical Results.- Structures in Planetary Rings— Stability and Gravitational Scattering.