Miscellaneous texts: wide audience texts, outreach

1. Press Reviews & Communiqués / Publicity:

(in inverse chronological order)

• 2013/PRESS3.
  Research Media Innovation article (Special Issue on Complexity Science): Riding the Soliton `Wave' (July 2013).
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy (4.5 MB).
• 2013/PRESS2.
  loP LabTalk article (online, 2013): Life off the Maxwellian border: nonthermal effects on plasma waves.
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2013/PRESS1.
  loP LabTalk article (online, 2013): Monster waves in a laser beam: myth or reality?
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS1.
  APS Physical Review Focus Story: Waves of Destruction
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS15.
  PhysOrg Sci. Site: New theory (and old equations) may explain causes of ship-sinking freak waves
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS14.
  Springer, Geowissenschaften (in German): Wie entsteht eine "Monsterwelle"
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS13.
  Rheinische Post (German daily): Ansage für Monsterwellen
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy; German RP reprint here.
• 2006/PRESS12.
  pro-physik.de (in German): Wie die "Monsterwelle" entsteht: RUB-Physiker entwickeln neue Theorie zum Verhalten des Wassers
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS11.
  BBV-Net (in German): Neue Theorie zum Verhalten des Wassers auf hoher See - Wie die "Monsterwelle" entsteht
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS10.
  Informationdienst Wissenschaft (in German): Neue Theorie zum Verhalten des Wassers auf hoher See - Wie "Monsterwellen" entstehen
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS9.
  Original Press Release (in German), Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Nr. 300, 12 September 2006: Wie die "Monsterwelle" entsteht RUB-Physiker analysieren und simulieren die "Freak Wave" Neue Theorie zum Verhalten des Wassers auf hoher See
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS8.
  SvobodaNews.ru (in Russian): Giant oceanic waves obey the Schrödinger equation
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS2.
  SvD - Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish daily): Monstervågor bakom gåtfulla olyckor
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS3.
  Original Press Release (Umeå Universitet, Sweden): Small waves can produce monster waves
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS4.
  VR (Swedish Research Council) Communiqué: Small waves can produce monster waves
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS5.
  ExpertSvar Communiqué; in Swedish: Små vågsvall ger oväntade monstervågor
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy; also, in English: Small waves can produce monster waves: original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS6.
  forskning.se (Swedish Uni. Network) article: Små vågsvall ger oväntade monstervågor
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2006/PRESS7.
  SoftPedia Article
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• (2004/BBC).
  A relevant (to the above 2006 links) BBC story can be found here
  original link; reprint here: .pdf copy.
• 2005/PRESS1.
  Article excerpt of the Cretan (Hania) local newspaper Haniotika Nea (17 Aug. 2005 issue), on the NEXT - Sigma Phi 2005 Conference (held in Kolymbari-Hania, Crete, in 2005), by I. Liviakis (in greek)
  .pdf copy.

2. Book Reviews (by IK):

(in inverse chronological order)

• 2007/REV1.
  Review of the book Nonlinear Optics in Telecommunications, by Thomas Schneider (Springer, Berlin, 2004)
  to appear in the Bulletin of the Belgian Physical Society (2007).
  .pdf (approx. 15 KB)
• 2004/REV1.
  Review of the book The Frenkel-Kontorova Model. Concepts, Methods and Applications, by O. M. Braun and Y. S. Kivshar (Springer, Berlin, 2004)
  published in the Bulletin of the Belgian Physical Society (2005).
  .pdf (approx. 150 KB)
• 2000/REV1.
  Review of the book The Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation, by Catherine Sulem and Pierre-Louis Sulem (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999)
  published in the Bulletin of the Belgian Physical Society (2000).