An overview of the recent progress of research in computational physics and materials science. Particular topics are modelling of traffic flow and complex multi-scale solidification phenomena. The sections introduce novel research results of experts from a considerable diversity of disciplines such as physics, mathematical and computational modelling, nonlinear dynamics, materials sciences, statistical mechanics and foundry technique.

I INTERFACE DYNAMICS: Phenomenology and Modelling.- Melting Kinetics of Prolate Spheroidal Crystals.- Deterministic Behaviour in Sidebranching Development.- Growth Dynamics during Solidification of Undercooled Melts.- Thermodynamics of Diffuse Interfaces.- Computer Investigation of the Influence of the Internal Structure Topology on the Percolation Process in Two- and Three-Dimensional Inhomogeneous Systems.- Electron Transport of Nanoperm Alloys.- Self-Organized Formation of Fractal and Regular Pores in Semiconductors.- Evolution and Shapes of Dunes.- Morphogenesis of Growing Amorphous Films.- II INTERFACE DYNAMICS: Modelling and Simulation.- Density Effects and Fluid Flow in Phase-field Models.- A Lattice Boltzmann Method for the Mesoscopic Calculation of Anisotropic Crystal Growth.- A Phase-field Model for the Solidification Process in Multicomponent Alloys.- Planar Solidification from Undercooled Melt: An Approximation of a Dilute Binary Alloy for a Phase-field Model.- Initial Transients in the Symmetric Model for Directional Solidification.- Dynamics of a Faceted Nematic-Smectic B Front in Thin-Sample Directional Solidification.- Last Stage Solidification of Alloys: A Theoretical Study of Dendrite Arm and Grain Coalescence.- Phase-field Modeling of Eutectic Solidification: From Oscillations to Invasion.- Phase-field Theory of Nucleation and Growth in Binary Alloys.- Modelling of Phase Transformations in Titanium Alloys with a Phase-field Model.- Spreading of Liquid Monolayers: From Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations to Continuum Limit.- A Multi-mesh Finite Element Method for Phase-field Simulations.- Transport of Point Defects in Growing Si Crystals.- Atomistic Simulation of Transport Phenomena in Simple and Complex Fluids and Fluid Mixtures.- Unusual Viscosity Feature in Spinodal Decomposition Under Shear Flow.- Micro-macro Approach to Cluster Formation in Granular Media.- III Transport.- Urban Transport Phenomena in the Street Canyon.- Walker Behaviour Modelling by Differential Games.- Investigations of Vibrations in the Complex Dynamical Systems of Transmission Pipelines.- Information in Intelligent Transportation System.- Experiments on Route Choice Behaviour.- Transport Out of a Gravitationally Stable Layer with the Help of a Faster Diffusing Substance: PDE Simulations and Scaling Laws.- Microscopic Parameters and Macroscopic Features of Traffic Flow.- An Adaptive Smoothing Method for Traffic State Identification from Incomplete Information.- Probabilistic Description of Nucleation in Vapours and on Roads.- Cellular Automata Simulation of Collective Phenomena in Pedestrian Dynamics.- Modeling, Simulation and Observations for Freeway Traffic and Pedestrian.- Testing Traffic Flow Models.