Complex Chemical Dynamics
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Transient growth due to non-normal chemical dynamics.

Ignition in a combustion reation network.
Synchronization Phenomena
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Frozen vortex chimera in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation.

Critical switching chimera in coupled rings optical oscillators.
Material and Fluid Designs
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Metamaterials exhibiting inverted compressibility transitions.

Jet formation in a thin fluid film up under thermocapillary driving.
Faraday Wave Experiments
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Classical Faraday waves in a cylindrical dish.

Farday waves in an ant-farm geometry, with interface evolution extracted by computer-vision processing.
Granular Materials
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A gas of soft spheres near the jamming transition.

Particle tracking of large defects in a granular material medium driven by vibrations. Courtesy of Joseph Williams.
Localized Limit Cycles
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Localized oscillatory states connecting limit cycles and invariant tori.