Current topics in physics : in honor of Sir Roger J. Elliott

* Disorder and Dynamical Systems: * Reflections on the Beguiling but Wayward Spherical Model (M E Fisher) * Phase Transitions in Vector Spin Glasses (A P Young) * Transitions, Dynamics and Disorder: From Equilibrium to Non-Equilibrium Systems (R Stinchcombe) * Two-Dimensional Growth in a Three Component Mixture with Competing Interactions (C Varea) * Glassy Dynamics at the Edge of Chaos (A Robledo) * Structures and Glasses: * Flexibility in Biomolecules (M F Thorpe et al.) * Lattice Dynamics of Carbon Nanotubes (V N Popov & M Balkanski) * Glassy Behavior Due to Kinetic Constraints: From Topological Foam to Backgammon (D Sherrington) * On Glass Transition with Rapid Cooling Effects (R Kerner & O Mares) * The Dielectric Loss Function and the Search for Simple Models for Relaxation in Glass Formers (A P Vieira et al.) * The Theory of Turing Pattern Formation (T Leppanen) * The Dioctadecylamine Monolayer: Non-Equilibrium Phase Domains (A Flores et al.) * Electrical and Magnetic Properties: * Multiple Scattering Effects in the Second Harmonic Generation of Light Reflection from Randomly Rough Metal Surface (A A Maradudin et al.) * Theory for Large Scale Electronic Structure Calculations (T Fujiwara et al.) * Symmetric Magnetic Clusters (J B Parkinson et al.) * Optical and Fermi-Edge Singularities in One-Dimensional Semiconductor Quantum Wires (K P Jain) * Probing the Magnetic Coupling in Multilayers Using Domain Wall Excitations (A S Carrico & A L Dantas) * Density of Electronic States in the Quantum Percolation Problem (G G Naumis & R A Barrio) * Power Terms in the Construction of Thermodynamic Functions for Melting Description (F L Castillo-Alvarado et al.)