The 6th Kyoto Summer Institute devoted to "Chaos and Statistical Mechanics" was held from September 12 to 15, 1983, at the Research Institute forMathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, and at Hotel Kuniso. The meeting was aimed at clari fying various aspects of chaotic systems appearing in different scientific disci pl ines, critically examining related mathematical methods developed so far, thus preparing for possible breakthroughs, among others, for the opening of a new period of statistical mechanics of deterministic systems. The number of partici pants was 135,of which 24 were from abroad. We believe that the well-prepared lecture of each speaker and lively discussions among many participants from various research fields led the meeting to a successful conclusion. The 6th KSI was organized by the Research Institute for Fundamental Physics. A number of young chaos researchers in Japan also participated actively in the organization. We were also in close contact with the organizer of the IUTAM Sym posium on "Turbulence and Chaotic Phenomena in Fluids" (Kyoto Kaikan Conference Hall, Kyoto, September 5-10 1983). This volume contains most of the lectures presented at the 6th KSI. We are very grateful to all the authors for their efforts in preparing such excellent manuscripts. The 6th KSI was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and the Yamada Science Foundation. The organizing committee acknowledges gratefully their generous financial support. Finally, than'ks are due to Dr. M. Toya and Miss T. Sumide for their invaluable assistance.

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I General Concepts.- Coarse Graining Revisited -The Case of Macroscopic Chaos.- Gibbs Variational Principle and Fredholm Theory for One-Dimensional Maps.- Truncated Development of Chaotic Attractors in a Map when the Jacobian is not Small.- II Fractals in Dynamical and Stochastic Systems.- On the Dynamics of Iterated Maps VIII: The Map z??(z+1/z), from Linear to Planar Chaos, and the Measurement of Chaos.- Self-Similar Natural Boundaries of Non-Integrable Dynamical Systems in the Complex t Plane.- Topological Phase Transitions.- Dynamical System Related to an Almost Periodic Schrödinger Equation.- Mean Field Hausdorff Dimensions of Diffusion-Limited and Related Aggregates.- III Onset of Chaos.- Stability of the Scenarios Towards Chaos.- Functional Renormalization-Group Equations Approach to the Transition to Chaos.- Collapse of Tori in Dissipative Mappings.- Periodic Forcing Near Intermittency Threshold - Resonance and Collapse of Tori.- Perturbation Theory Analysis of Bifurcations in a Three-Dimensional Differential System.- IV One-Dimensional Mappings.- Noise-Induced Order - Complexity Theoretical Digression.- Symbolic Dynamics Approach to Intermittent Chaos - Towards the Comprehension of Large Scale Self-Similarity and Asymptotic Non-Stationarity.- Diffusion and Generation of Non-Gaussianity in Chaotic Discrete Dynamics.- Analytic Study of Power Spectra of Intermittent Chaos.- V Bifurcations and Normal Forms.- Versal Deformation of Singularities and Its Applications to Strange Attractors.- Some Codimension-Two Bifurcations for Maps, Leading to Chaos.- Bifurcations in Doubly Diffusive Convection.- Strange Attractors in a System Described by Nonlinear Differential-Difference Equation.- Coupled Chaos.- Bifurcations in 2D Area-Preserving Mappings.- VI SolitonSystems.- Chaotic Behavior Induced by Spatially Inhomogeneous Structures such as Solitons.- Chaotic Behaviour of Quasi Solitons in a Nonlinear Dispersive System.- VII Fluid Dynamics.- Inviscid Singularity and Relative Diffusion in Intermittent Turbulence.- Computational Synergetics and Innovation in Wave and Vortex Dynamics.- A Scalar Model of MHD Turbulence.- The Analytic Structure of Turbulent Flows.- Low Prandtl Number Fluids, a Paradigm for Dynamical System Studies.- Chaotic Attractors in Rayleigh-Benard Systems.- Onset of Chaos in Some Hydrodynamic Model Systems of Equations.- VIII Chemical and Optical Systems.- Instabilities and Chaos in a Chemical Reaction.- Optical Turbulence.- IX Anomalous Fluctuations.- Scaling Theory of Relative Diffusion in Chaos and Turbulence.- 1/f Resistance Fluctuations.- Index of Contributors.

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I General Concepts.- Coarse Graining Revisited The Case of Macroscopic Chaos.- Gibbs Variational Principle and Fredholm Theory for One-Dimensional Maps.- Truncated Development of Chaotic Attractors in a Map when the Jacobian is not Small.- II Fractals in Dynamical and Stochastic Systems.- On the Dynamics of Iterated Maps VIII: The Map z??(z+1/z), from Linear to Planar Chaos, and the Measurement of Chaos.- Self-Similar Natural Boundaries of Non-Integrable Dynamical Systems in the Complex t Plane.- Topological Phase Transitions.- Dynamical System Related to an Almost Periodic Schrödinger Equation.- Mean Field Hausdorff Dimensions of Diffusion-Limited and Related Aggregates.- III Onset of Chaos.- Stability of the Scenarios Towards Chaos.- Functional Renormalization-Group Equations Approach to the Transition to Chaos.- Collapse of Tori in Dissipative Mappings.- Periodic Forcing Near Intermittency Threshold Resonance and Collapse of Tori.- Perturbation Theory Analysis of Bifurcations in a Three-Dimensional Differential System.- IV One-Dimensional Mappings.- Noise-Induced Order Complexity Theoretical Digression.- Symbolic Dynamics Approach to Intermittent Chaos Towards the Comprehension of Large Scale Self-Similarity and Asymptotic Non-Stationarity.- Diffusion and Generation of Non-Gaussianity in Chaotic Discrete Dynamics.- Analytic Study of Power Spectra of Intermittent Chaos.- V Bifurcations and Normal Forms.- Versal Deformation of Singularities and Its Applications to Strange Attractors.- Some Codimension-Two Bifurcations for Maps, Leading to Chaos.- Bifurcations in Doubly Diffusive Convection.- Strange Attractors in a System Described by Nonlinear Differential-Difference Equation.- Coupled Chaos.- Bifurcations in 2D Area-Preserving Mappings.- VI SolitonSystems.- Chaotic Behavior Induced by Spatially Inhomogeneous Structures such as Solitons.- Chaotic Behaviour of Quasi Solitons in a Nonlinear Dispersive System.- VII Fluid Dynamics.- Inviscid Singularity and Relative Diffusion in Intermittent Turbulence.- Computational Synergetics and Innovation in Wave and Vortex Dynamics.- A Scalar Model of MHD Turbulence.- The Analytic Structure of Turbulent Flows.- Low Prandtl Number Fluids, a Paradigm for Dynamical System Studies.- Chaotic Attractors in Rayleigh-Benard Systems.- Onset of Chaos in Some Hydrodynamic Model Systems of Equations.- VIII Chemical and Optical Systems.- Instabilities and Chaos in a Chemical Reaction.- Optical Turbulence.- IX Anomalous Fluctuations.- Scaling Theory of Relative Diffusion in Chaos and Turbulence.- 1/f Resistance Fluctuations.- Index of Contributors.