Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1981. p. 421-422.
This collection of 12 papers is the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in September 1979. The editor, in the introduction, states that new experimental techniques are exploring previously inaccessible dynamical phenomena and that new theoretical advances may prove crucial to understanding these experiments. The aim of this institute was to juxtapose "new theory with new experimental possibilities." Unfortunately, this worthy aim is only partially fulfilled in this book: there are only two experimental papers amid ten diverse theoretical papers, and the connections between them are not fully made...