Contents
Reviews of topical problems
V.S. Beskin “Axisymmetric stationary flows in compact astrophysical objects” Phys. Usp. 40 659–688 (1997)
I.L. Fabelinskii “Macroscopic and molecular shear viscosity” Phys. Usp. 40 689–700 (1997)
Yu.V. Gulyaev, I.E. Dikshtein, V.G. Shavrov “Magnetoacoustic surface waves in magnetic crystals near spin-reorientation phase transitions” Phys. Usp. 40 701–716 (1997)
Yu.E. Lozovik, A.M. Popov “Formation and growth of carbon nanostructures: fullerenes, nanoparticles, nanotubes and cones” Phys. Usp. 40 717–737 (1997)
Physics news on the internet
Yu.N. Eroshenko “Physics news on the Internet (based on electronic preprints)” Phys. Usp. 40 738–738 (1997)
Physics of our days
A.V. Semenov “Observation of very-large-Q2 anomalous events in ep collisions on the HERA collider” Phys. Usp. 40 739–740 (1997)
Methodological notes
L.Kh. Ingel’ “’Anticonvection’” Phys. Usp. 40 741–745 (1997)
Personalia
B.V. Geshkenbein, V.N. Gribov, B.L. Ioffe, A.B. Kaidalov, L.A. Kondratyuk, L.B. Okun, V.S. Popov, Yu.A. Simonov, K.A. Ter-Martirosyan, Yu.B. Khariton, E.P. Shabalin “In memory of Mikhail Vasil’evich Terent’ev” Phys. Usp. 40 747–747 (1997)
A.F. Andreev, A.S. Borovik-Romanov, F.V. Bunkin, A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov, Yu.V. Gulyaev, N.V. Karlov, Yu.A. Kravtsov, V.V. Migulin, M.A. Miller, V.G. Polevoi, A.M. Prokhorov, I.L. Fabelinskii, E.L. Feinberg “In memory of Sergei Mikhailovich Rytov” Phys. Usp. 40 749–750 (1997)
F.V. Bunkin, B.B. Kadomtsev, Yu.L. Klimontovich, N.I. Koroteev, P.S. Landa, V.P. Maslov, Yu.M. Romanovskii “In memory of Ruslan Leont’evich Stratonovich” Phys. Usp. 40 751–752 (1997)
A.L. Barabanov, S.T. Belyaev, V.G. Vaks, N.B. Narozhnyi, A.A. Ogloblin, G.A. Pik-Pichak, Yu.E. Pokrovskii, S.V. Romanov, E.E. Sapershtein, A.A. Soldatov “In memory of Dmitrii Petrovich Grechukhin” Phys. Usp. 40 753–754 (1997)
Letters to the editors
G.K. Avetisyan “On the stimulated Cherenkov effect” Phys. Usp. 40 755–760 (1997)
I.A. Yakovlev “On A.V. Belinskii’s paper ’Regular and quasiregular spectra in disordered layer structures’” Phys. Usp. 40 761–762 (1997)