Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures V 53 It is not surprising at 18 It is not surprising at all therefore that the traditional history of science was a field of only minor interest for the practitioner of a distinct scientific diSCipline or specialty and at the same time a hardly challenging task for the professional historian (ii) followed by a temperature increase and response governed primarily by thermal properties and (iii) the thermo optical and thermo mechanical response of distortion The Workshop was organized by Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas Instituto de Fisica of Universidad Cat6lica de Valparaiso and Centro de Fisica No Lineal y Sistemas Complejos de Santiago