Proceedings of the International Nathiagali Summer College on Physics and Contemporary Needs. Volume 17. Held in Nathiagali, Pakistan on June 26-July 9, 1992

摘要

;The proceedings are divided into 2 parts. Part I--Computational Physics and Applications: The principles of artificial neural network information processing; Neural network models: From biology to many body phenomenology; A survey of variational principles; Multigrid methods for partial differential equations--A short introduction; Superconductors without supercomputers: Meeting LARGE scientific challenges with small machines; Dilute systems--Phase diagram and damage spreading; Computer simulation of fluids; Structure and dynamics at metal surfaces--A molecular dynamics study; Part II--Plasma Physics: Magnetic and inertial confinement fusion--An overview; An introduction to inertial confinement fusion; Diagnostic technique in laboratory plasmas; Dense magnetized plasma; Plasma Physics; Space plasma physics and laboratory simulation experiments. The final 3 papers of Part I, and the final 3 papers of Part II, have abstracts only.