Basic concepts Open systems, non-equilibrium states, thermodynamics of open systems Subordination principle Active media, autovawes, dissipative structures Elements of qualitative theory of dynamical systems Phase portrait, trajectory, basic types of bifurcations in a plane Characteristic Lyapunov exponents Concept of attractor, strange attractors Puancare map Bifurcations in multidimensional systems, chaos in dynamical systems and scenarios (ways) of its appearance Fractal structures and their dimension Autowave structures Models of excitable media Systems with multiple stationary states Autowave regimes in media with diffusion, displacement waves, traveling pulses, spiral waves. Target patterns Theory of stationary dissipative structures Dissipative structures, turing bifurcation Sharp and quasi-harmonic DS Construction of DS solutions near the Turing bifurcation Method of construction of sharp DS Spatial-temporal patterns in physical and chemical systems The Prigogine-Lefevr-Nicolis model (Brusselator) Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, Fild-Noice model (Oregonator) Hydrodynamic instabilities, the Benard effect Autowave media in solid matter. Heat waves and non-uniform stationary states Self-organization in biological systems The pronlem of biological self-organization The concept of biological (morphological) field, positional information The role of DS in morphogenesis, chemical basis of morphogenesis Morphogenesis of hydra, the Gierer-Mainhardt model Mechanism of pattern formation on animal skins, morphogenesis in insects The role of currents in processes of self-organization Models of mechanisms of pattern formation in bacterial colonies and Dictyostellium Discoideum amoebae "Mechanical" models of morphogenesis