2018 APS Fellows with research related to Dynamical Systems

American Physical Society announces 2018 Fellows

DSWeb congratulates 2018 APS fellows.

2018 SIAM Annual Meeting

Omar DeGuchy from UC Merced reports on 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting

Report on 2018 SIAM Annual meeting held July 9-13 in Portland, Oregon, USA

2018 SIAM Conference on Applied Mathematics Education

Korana Burke reports on SIAM ED18 meeting

SIAM Conference on Applied Mathematics Education was held jointly with the SIAM Annual Meeting the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (MS18) and the SIAM Workshop on Network Science (NS18) July 9-11 2018 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

2018 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Planet Earth

Kaitlin Hill  (University of Minnesota) reports about the second SIAM Conference on the Mathematics of Planet Earth  that was held  on September 12-15, 2018.

2018 SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences

Report by Veronica Ciocanel, Mathematical Biosciences Institute

Veronica Ciocanel reports on 2018 SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences.

2019 SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations

Stephanie Dodson reports on the 2019 SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations held December 11th-14th in La Quinta, California, U.S.

2024 International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience

Announcing the International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience (ICMNS) at University College Dublin.

6th Bremen Winter School and Symposium: Dynamical Systems and Turbulence

A report on the Winter School and Symposium held in March 2018 at the University of Bremen

A report on the Winter School held in March 2018 at the University of Bremen written by Ivan Ovsyannikov.

A Dynamical Systems View of the Outcomes of Viral Infections

Dynamical model of viral infections by Dixit demonstrates transitions between persistence and clearance as a bifurcation.

A Fast-Slow Dynamical System Model to Study Drug Addiction

Dynamical systems play an important role in modeling of a variety of cyclical processes in natural and manmade systems. In particular, they can be used to help to understand the mechanisms of drug addiction. Karthika Swamy Cohen tells about a recent  paper published in SIAM Journal on...

A Fast-Slow Switching Model of Banded Vegetation Pattern Formation in Drylands

A new fast-slow switching model is introduced that captures the ecohydrological processes such as infiltration of water into the soil during rainstorms and  seasonal plant growth and death. 

A Mathematical Approach to Defensive Positioning in Baseball

Elizabeth Bouzarth, Benjamin Grannan, John Harris, Andrew Hartley, Kevin Hutson, and Ella Morton describe a model using batter-specific refinements to optimize the locations of the fielders in baseball.

A Measure of Morphodynamics

Mattia Serra and L. Mahadevan talk about understanding the way in which a complex, multicellular organism arises from a single cell via spatiotemporal patterns that are repeatable and reproducible across the tree of life.

A Moving Argument

Mark Levi talks about stability of a cube resting on a sphere.

A Novel Method for Computing Spectral Stability of Standing Waves

Jonathan Jaquette of Boston University discusses numerical methods useful in establishing the stability and instability of nonlinear waves using conjugate points and the Maslov index.

Abdul-Aziz Yakubu (1958-2022)

Yakubu, professor of mathematics at Howard University, died August 14, 2022, at the age of 64.

Adaptive Networks in Action: Opinion Formation, Epidemics and the Evolution of Cooperation

The authors provide an overview and give some examples from the emerging field of adaptive networks, where the structure of a network changes in response to an underlying model.

Addressing Climate Change, Boosting Environmental Resilience, and Advancing Clean Energy

Alejandro Aceves, Hans Kaper, and Sven Leyffer reflect on the recent findings and recommendations of the SIAM Climate Task Force.

Alfred Hübler - In Memoriam

Professor Alfred Hübler, a teacher and a physicist, passed away Saturday, January 27, at the age of 60. Alfred was well known for his experiments in complex systems and will always be remembered as passionate teacher. He was the professor in the Department of Physics at the University of...

An Introduction to the Kepler-Heisenberg Problem

Corey Shanbrom from California State University, Sacramento, CA (corey.shanbrom (at) csus.edu) presents an overview of the Kepler-Heisenberg problem.

Andrea L. Bertozzi, the 2019 Ralph E. Kleinman Prize recipient

George Em Karniadakis (Brown University) and Mason A. Porter (UCLA) write about Andrea L. Bertozzi as she receives the 2019 Raph E. Kleinman Prize.

ANZIAM 2020 Recap

Sidney Holden, a mathematics PhD candidate at the University of Sydney whose research is on eigenmodes of the wave equation on graphs, reports on the ANZIAM2020 conference in New South Wales, Australia.

Balancing a Knife, Euler’s Elastica, and the Mathematical Pendulum

Mark Levi describes the physics and mathematics of balancing a knife.

Boris Dubrovin (1950-2019)

Boris Dubrovin, a leading figure in mathematical physics in particular, in the theory of integrable systems, with a strong background in geometry, passed away on March 19, 2019. The following is a biographical note written by Christian Klein (Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne) in...

Broken Social Contract

William Yslas Vélez calls for mathematics departments to take the lead in addressing reform towards a more equitable educational system.