During recent years radical changes have occurred in many areas of scientific research following from the realization of the underlying universality of the concepts of chaos, randomness, and unpredictability. At the same time spectacular advances in the theory of dynamical systems have provided rigorous tools to study these complex phenomena. This has gone hand in hand with the increased accuracy of observational data, which offers the opportunity to put serious empirical constraints on theory.
The concept of chaos is already becoming the unifying thread throughout the entire spectrum of astrophysical problems --- from the solar system to cosmology and the large scale structure of the universe.
The idea of bringing together specialists from diverse topics in this field is an attractive one because of the possibility of exchanging useful information through direct interaction.

The workshop will include invited review talks and contributed communications.

The proceedings of the workshop will be published in World Scientific Advanced Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology edited by Li-Zhi Fang and Remo Ruffini.

Topics include:

1. Solar system

2. Interstellar medium

3. Star clusters and galaxies

4. Clusters of galaxies and large-scale structure of the Universe

5. Cosmology

Scientific Organizing Committee:

V.Belinski, S.G.Djorgovski, L.Z.Fang, L.Galgani, V.G.Gurzadyan, S.Inagaki, J.Laskar, D.Lynden-Bell, J.Makino, G. Meylan, Ya.Pesin, R.Penrose, D.Pfenniger, I.Prigogine, D.Ruelle, R.Ruffini (Chair), W.Zurek

Local Organizing Committee:

D.Bini, D.Boccaletti, S.Casanova, L.Galgani, V.G.Gurzadyan (Chair), A.Merloni, G.Pucacco, S.Torres

Deadline for preliminary application: November 1, 1998

Contact information:
Chaotic Universe Workshop
ICRA, Dipartimento di Fisica
Universit?degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185  Roma, Italy
tel: + 39 6 49914397 fax: + 39 6 4454992
E-mail: gurzadya@icra.it; chaos@.icra.it