Advances in Chemical Physics: Special Volume in Memory of Ilya Prigogine, Volume 135

This series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. This stand-alone special topics volume reports recent advances in electron-transfer research with significant, up-to-date chapters by internationally recognized researchers.

Ilya Prigogine: His Life, His Work 1 By Radu Balescu Time Asymmetry in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics 83 By Pierre Gaspard Quantum and Classical Dynamics of Nonintegrable Systems 135 By Ilya Prigogine, Tomio Petrosky, and Gonzolo Ordonez Statistical Mechanics of a Gravitational Plasma 153 By Yves Pomeau Inverse Problems for Reaction-diffusion Systems with Application to Geographical Population Genetics 173 By Marcel O. Vlad and John Ross Carnot Efficiency Revisited 189 By C. Van den Broeck DNA in Chromatin: From Genome-wide Sequence Analysis To the Modeling of Replication in Mammals 203 By A. Arneodo, B. Audit, E. B. Brodie of Brodie, S. Nicolay, P. St. Jean, Y. d’Aubenton-Carafa, C. Thermes, M. Touchon, and C. Vaillant Biological Rhythms as Temporal Dissipative Structures 253 By Albert Goldbeter Author Index 297 Subject Index 311