Reviews of topical problems

V.A. Belyakov, V.E. Dmitrienko “The blue phase of liquid crystals” 28 535–562 (1985)

V.G. Bar’yakhtar, B.A. Ivanov, M.V. Chetkin “Dynamics of domain walls in weak ferromagnets” 28 563–588 (1985)

B.E. Vugmeister, M.D. Glinchuk “Cooperative phenomena in crystals containing off-center ions—dipole glass and ferroelectricity” 28 589–607 (1985)

Physics of our days

Ya.B. Zel’dovich, D.D. Sokolov “Fractals, similarity, intermediate asymptotics” 28 608–616 (1985)

From the current literature

N.G. Ural’tsev, V.A. Khoze “Quark mixing in weak interactions” 28 617–631 (1985)

Meetings and conferences

Yu.A. Bychkov, E.I. Rashba “Spectrum of a 2D electron gas in an inversion layer” 28 632–633 (1985)

V.M. Pudalov, S.G. Semenchinskii “Galvanomagnetic properties of a 2D electron layer in silicon under conditions of a quantized Hall resistance” 28 634–635 (1985)

V.M. Pudalov, S.G. Semenchinskii, V.S. Edel’man “Charge and potential of an inversion layer in a metalinsulator-semiconductor structure in a quantizing magnetic field” 28 635–636 (1985)

A.I. Burshtein “Collapse and narrowing of spectra during condensation of gases” 28 636–638 (1985)

A.V. Zalesskii “Domain walls in magnetic materials according to NMR spectroscopy” 28 638–639 (1985)

Personalia

A.F. Andreev, A.S. Borovik-Romanov, N.V. Zavaritskii, Ya.B. Zel’dovich, S.P. Kapitsa, K.O. Keshishev, I.P. Krylov, E.M. Lifshitz, A.Ya. Parshin, L.P. Pitaevskii, M.S. Khaikin, Yu.V. Sharvin “Aleksandr Iosifovich Shal’nikov (on his eightieth birthday)” 28 640–641 (1985)

A.P. Aleksandrov, Zh.I. Alferov, G.V. Kurdyumov, S.P. Nikanorov, Yu.A. Osip’yan, A.M. Prokhorov, V.R. Regel’, M.A. Sadovskii, V.M. Tuchkevich, S.A. Khristianovich “Serafim Nikolaevich Zhurkov (on his eightieth birthday)” 28 642–643 (1985)