1 Table of Contents: “...Overview of Chapters -- Prologue -- Mountain -- Rock -- Crystal -- Geode -- Agate -- Gem -- Texture...”

2 Table of Contents: “... -- 6 Availability -- References -- Algorithm animation with Agat -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview...”

3 Table of Contents: “... Transitions -- AGATE: A High Energy Gamma-Ray Telescope Using Drift Chambers -- GLAST -- Gamma-Ray Astronomy...”

4 Table of Contents: “... of Periodic Bands Through Precipitation and Ostwald Ripening -- 22 Agates, Geodes, Concretions and Orbicules...”

5 Table of Contents: “... telescope using silicon strip detectors -- AGATE: expanding on the success of EGRET -- The all-sky high...”

6 “... with satellite communi­ cations. The material progresses from the essential aspects of radiowave prop­ agation...”

7 “... section, and the applications of large-deviation theory to wave front prop­ agation for reaction-diffusion...”

8 “..., by exploiting the p- allelism of the data model and the frequency-selectivity of the pr- agation channel...”

9 “... the required pr- agation and search algorithms. It can be realized as a library for a general purpose...”