Contents: stochastic dynamics of growing films; kinetics of epitaxial thin film growth; wavelet transformations and data processing: application to characterization and simulation of large-scale porous media; pore-scale characterization of porous rocks: evidence of correlated heterogeneity and implications to fluid displacement processes; directed percolation, the fixed scale transformation and the renormalization group; statistical mechanics and scaling theories of macromolecules; the dissipative dynamics and relaxation behavior of a generic model for hydrophobic collapse; fluctuation-induced phenomena: from biophysics to cavity qed; scaling as inflation symmetry, and its physical consequences; percolation simulation: large lattices, varying dimensions; percolation simulation: large lattices, varying dimensions; some aspects of dynamics of josephson-junction array at golden mean frustration; monte carlo simulation of microscopic stock market models; monte carlo simulation of microscopic stock market models; a history-dependent model for predator-prey problem; biological ageing in the 20th century.