Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures IX (Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, 9) <9>

Contains a selection of lectures and seminars given at the Ninth International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures which took place in Chile, in December 2001. This book gives an overview about reorientation and undulation instabilities in liquid crystals. It summarizes some numerical methods used in bifurcation problems.