This edited quantity includes twelve contributions relating to the european Marie Curie move of information venture Cooperation of Estonian and Norwegian Scienti c Centres inside arithmetic and its purposes, CENS-CMA (2005-2009), - der agreement MTKD-CT-2004-013909, which ?nanced trade visits to and from CENS, the Centre for Nonlinear reports on the Institute of Cybernetics of Tallinn collage of expertise in Estonia. Seven contributions describe learn highlights of CENS participants, the paintings of participants of CMA, the Centre of arithmetic for Applications,Univ- sity of Oslo, Norway, because the associate establishment of CENS within the Marie Curie undertaking, and 3 the ?eld of labor of international study fellows, who visited CENS as a part of theproject. Thestructureofthebookre?ectsthedistributionofthetopicsaddressed: half I Waves in Solids half II Mesoscopic thought half III Exploiting the Dissipation Inequality half IV Waves in Fluids half V Mathematical equipment The papers are written in an academic kind, meant for non-specialist researchers and scholars, the place the authors speak their very own studies in tackling an issue that's at the moment of curiosity within the scienti?c group. The target used to be to supply a booklet, which highlights the significance of utilized arithmetic and that are used for tutorial reasons, similar to fabric for a path or a seminar. to make sure the scienti?c caliber of the contributions, each one paper used to be rigorously - considered via overseas specialists. designated thank you visit all authors and referees, with out whom making this publication shouldn't have been possible.