title: Introduction to focus issue: Patterns of network synchronization.
abstract: The study of synchronization of coupled systems is currently undergoing a major surge fueled by recent discoveries of new forms of collective dynamics and the development of techniques to characterize a myriad of new patterns of network synchronization. This includes chimera states, phenomena determined by symmetry, remote synchronization, and asymmetry-induced synchronization. This Focus Issue presents a selection of contributions at the forefront of these developments, to which this introduction is intended to offer an up-to-date foundation.
authors: Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
authors: Daniel M
authors: DM
authors: Abrams
authors: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA.
authors: Louis M
authors: LM
authors: Pecora
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
authors: Adilson E
authors: AE
authors: Motter