Ordinary and partial differential equations : proceedings of the eighth conference held at Dundee, Scotland, June 25-29, 1984 / B. D. Sleeman and R. J. Jarvis

Contents: A. M. A. Abou-El-Ela, A stability result for the solutions of a certain system of third-order differential equations (pp. 1–8); H.-D. Alber, A local existence theorem for the quasilinear wave equation with initial values of bounded variation (pp. 9–24); Stuart S. Antman, Bifurcation problems associated with nonlinear wave propagation (pp. 25–34); Bernd Aulbach, Conditions for a limit set to be a singleton (pp. 35–41); J. Bell [Jonathan Bell], A hydrodynamical model of the sea hare's propulsive mechanism (pp. 42–48); I. Bihari, Periodic solutions of some second order nonlinear differential equations with periodic coefficients (pp. 49–59); M. Biroli, Wiener obstacles for the biharmonic operator (pp. 60–67); Norman Bleistein, Inverse methods for reflector imaging (pp. 68–76); N. F. Britton, Travelling wave front solutions of a differential-difference equation arising in the modelling of myelinated nerve axon (pp. 77–89); Gail A. Carpenter, The nonparametric influence of light on mammalian circadian rhythms (pp. 90–108); Raffaele Chiappinelli, On bifurcation for nondifferentiable perturbations of selfadjoint operators (pp. 109–114); Yuan Shun Chin [Yuan Xun Qin], On surfaces defined by ordinary differential equations: a new approach to Hilbert's 16th problem (pp. 115–131); Dũng Xuân Nguyễn, Selfadjointness for general elliptic operators with Sobolev-type coefficients (pp. 132–141); Á. Elbert, On a Nehari's constant (pp. 142–147); J. Fleckinger-Pelle [Jacqueline Pellé Fleckinger], Asymptotics of eigenvalues for some "nondefinite'' elliptic problems (pp. 148–156); I. M. Gali, H. A. El-Saify and S. A. El-Zahabi, Optimal control of a system governed by hyperbolic operator (pp. 157–163); Harry Gingold and Po Fang Hsieh, A global study of a Hamiltonian system with multi-turning-points (pp. 164–171); S. R. Grace and B. S. Lalli, Some further results on oscillatory behavior of solutions of nth order delay differential equations (pp. 172–182); P. Grindrod, A model for a myelinated nerve axon (pp. 183–191); Ben Yu Guo and B. D. Sleeman, Spatial patterning of the spruce budworm in the presence of defoliation (pp. 192–203); K. P. Hadeler, Vector models for infectious diseases (pp. 204–216); F. A. Howes, Multidimensional reaction-convection-diffusion equations (pp. 217–223); R. Iannacci and M. N. Nkashama, On periodic solutions of forced second order differential equations with a deviating argument (pp. 224–232); Zhen Sheng Lin, The theory of quasiperiodic motions (pp. 233–242); W. E. Mahfoud, Stability criteria for linear integro-differential equations (pp. 243–251); P. K. Maini, J. D. Murray and G. F. Oster, A mechanical model for biological pattern formation: a nonlinear bifurcation analysis (pp. 252–269); S. E. A. Mohammed, Almost surely nonlinear solutions of stochastic linear delay equations (pp. 270–275); Pedro Morales, Properties of the set of global solutions for the Cauchy problems in a locally convex topological vector space (pp. 276–284); Pierpaolo Omari and Fabio Zanolin, Boundary value problems for forced nonlinear equations at resonance (pp. 285–294); Paul H. Rabinowitz, Periodic solutions of prescribed period for Hamiltonian systems (pp. 295–303); John Rinzel, Bursting oscillations in an excitable membrane model (pp. 304–316); Herbert C. Sager, Semilinear second order evolution equations and regular boundary conditions (pp. 317–324); Joel Smoller and Arthur Wasserman, Symmetry-breaking for semilinear elliptic equations (pp. 325–334); R. P. Soni and K. Soni, On a boundary value problem associated with some difference-differential equations (pp. 335–341); J. R. L. Webb and S. C. Welsh, A-proper maps and bifurcation theory (pp. 342–349); A. I. Zayed, On the singularities and asymptotic expansions of singular Sturm-Liouville expansions (pp. 350–357).