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The work presents a novel approach for enhancing intercultural and interdisciplinary meetings through the 'JOIN Principle,' which integrates Theme-Centred Interaction (TCI) and Reteaming methodology. It features a comprehensive literature review on culture and communication, alongside a rare English analysis of TCI. The TCI group phase model is introduced, detailing emotional dynamics in group development. Practical examples and guidelines make it a useful handbook. The thesis also includes findings from five workshops using JOIN, with insights from participating executives and recommendations for future research.

Since the advent of the laser, coherent optics has developed at an ever increasing pace. There is no doubt about the reason. Coherent light, with its properties so different from the light we are surrounded by, lends itself to numerous applications in science, technology, and life. The bandwidth of coherent optics reaches from holography and interferometry, with its gravitational wave detectors, to the CD player for music, movies, and computers; from the laser scalpel, which allows surgical cutting in the interior of the eye without destruction of the layers penetrated in front of it, to optical information and data processing with its great impact on society. According to its importance, the foundations of coherent optics should be conveyed to students of natural sciences as early as possible to better prepare them for their future careers as physicists or engineers. The present book tries to serve this need: to promote the foundations of coherent optics. Special attention is paid to a thorough presentation of the fundamentals. This should enable the reader to follow the contemporary literature from a firm basis. The wealth of material, of course, makes necessary a restriction of the topics included. Therefore, from the main areas of optics, wave optics and the classical description oflight is given most ofthe space available. The book starts with a quick trip through the history of physics from the viewpoint of optics.

A broad variety of research topics emerged during the past sixty years from the institute's global theme 'oscillations and waves'. Some of these topics are addressed in this book in which topical review articles by former and present members of the institute are collected. The subjects covered vary from speech and hearing research to flow control and active control systems, from bubble oscillations to cavitation structures, from ordering phenomena in liquids and one-dimensional solids to complex dynamics of chaotic nonlinear systems, from laser speckle metrology to ring laser gyroscopes, from biophysics to medical applications in ophthalmology as well as extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.