On Growth and Form

• A. “The Course”.- Growth: An Introduction.- Form: An Introduction to Self-Similarity and Fractal Behavior.- Scale-Invariant Diffusive Growth.- DLA in the Real World.- Percolation and Cluster Size Distribution.- Scaling Properties of the Probability Distribution for Growth Sites.- Computer Simulation of Growth and Aggregation Processes.- Rate Equation Approach to Aggregation Phenomena.- Experimental Methods for Studying Fractal Aggregates.- On the Rheology of Random Matter.- Development, Growth, and Form in Living Systems.- B. “The Seminars”.- Aggregation of Colloidal Silica.- Dynamics of Fractals.- Fractal Viscous Fingers: Experimental Results.- Wetting Induced Aggregation.- Light Scattering from Aggregating Systems: Static, Dynamic (QELS) and Number Fluctuations.- Flocculation and Gelation in Cluster Aggregation.- Branched Polymers.- Dynamics of Aggregation Processes.- Fractal Properties of Clusters during Spinodal Decomposition.- Kinetic Gelation.- Dendritic Growth by Monte Carlo.- Flow through Porous Materials.- Crack Propagation and Onset of Failure.- The Theta Point.- Field Theories of Walks and Epidemics.- Transport Exponents in Percolation.- Non-Universal Critical Exponents for Transport in Percolating Systems.- Lévy Walks Versus Lévy Flights.- Growth Perimeters Generated by a Kinetic Walk: Butterflies, Ants and Caterpillars.- Asymptotic Shape of Eden Clusters.- Occupation Probability Scaling in DLA.- Fractal Singularities in a Measure and “How to Measure Singularities on a Fractal”.- List of Participants.

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