The Dynamics of Rhythm Synchronization in Acorn Ants

Doering gave SIADS MS talk on movement synchronization in acorn ant experiments/models.

The Dynamics of Toys

Many mechanical toys display compelling and subtle dynamical properties. This article includes both modeling and experimental data for two classical examples: The drinking bird, and the balancing stick.

The end of theory?

This is an adaptation of a radio episode from the NPR program Engines of Our Ingenuity. It was inspired by a recent article in Wired on the program eureqa which "discovered" Newton's laws of motion - are Dynamical Systems' analysts becoming obsolete?

The Fourth International Conferenceon Recent Advances in Applied Dynamical Systems

Jinqiao Duan reports from the conference, June 16-20 2010, at Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China.

The future of higher education

State funding for public universities and the proportion of tenure/tenure-track faculty at institutions of higher learning is decreasing. Here are some thoughts and a collection of links that deal with the future of our profession.

The future of Snowbird

The bi-annual meeting of our AG will take place in Snowbird, Utah, this spring. The 2015 meeting will also be held there, but the location of the 2017 meeting has not been decided yet. One option is, obviously, for the AG to renew its contract with Snowbird and continue a tradition that started...

The International Workshop on Bifurcation Theory and Applications

In May 23-26 this year, the Department of Mathematics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai P.R. China hosted the International Workshop on Bifurcation Theory and Applications.

The London Millennium Footbridge Revisited: Emergent Instability Without Synchronization

Beleykh and colleagues give evidence that Millennium Bridge instability may not have arise via synchronization using dynamical models and data.

The Many Behaviours of a Fourth Order Thin-film Equation

Michael C. Dallaston from the Queensland University of Technology discusses the variety of solution behaviors found in a fourth-order thin film equation that serves as a somewhat prototypical equation for a collection of nonlinear phenomena.

The Mathematics of Poverty, Inequality, and Oligarchy

Boghosian and Börgers extend the "yard-sale model" of economics to account for oligarchy in wealth distribution.

The MEC Lab at the University of Delaware

The University of Delaware MEC lab uses modeling, experiment, and computation to teach students applied math. The lab consists of a number of faculty working in a variety of loosely connected fields of applied math. It incorporates graduate students working on research, undergraduate students...

The Moser, Crawford and Red Sock winners of 2013.

An overview of the Moser, Crawford and Red Sock winners of 2013.

The Pancreatic Beta Cell: Biology and Mathematics Advance Together

Sherman and colleagues trace the history of using dynamical systems methods to model pancreatic beta cells and insulin secretion.

The Quadfurcation

Quadfurcation is a bifurcation when four fixed points are created from none at a single location in phase space upon variation of one parameter. This bifurcation is not at all well studied in dynamical systems literature. In this paper Bäcker and Meiss put forth that the quadfurcation is an...

The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Catastrophe Theory

In the 2009 Moser Lecture, titled “Catastrophes, Symmetry-Breaking, Synchrony-Breaking,” Golubitsky surveyed the rise, fall, and legacy of catastrophe theory. In particular, he showed how some of the ideas of catastrophe theory can be applied to study the dynamics of networks.

The Sydney Dynamics Group

The Sydney Dynamics Group is a recently formed research collaboration between two major universities in Sydney, Australia. The group consists of eight faculty, fourteen students, four postdocs, and a regular string of international visitors, all fueled by Sydney's outstanding coffee.

The Topology of Chaos: Alice in Stretch and Squeezeland

Author: R. Gilmore and M. Lefranc

The Unconventional Aerodynamics of Paper Airplanes

Li and Ristroph describe experimental/modeling work identifying the origin of paper airplane stability.

The Value of Collaboration and Networking for Female Mathematicians

Lina Sorg ([email protected]) reports on a presentation by Dr. Fengyan Li of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2019), Valencia, Spain, where Fengyan Li  shared firsthand accounts of her personal...

Thomas Wagenknecht 1974 - 2012

On Saturday April 28, 2012 we lost our colleague and friend Thomas Wagenknecht. Jürgen Knobloch commemorates Thomas.

Tien-Yien Li (1945-2020)

A Celebration of Life

Professor Moody Chu writes on the life and accomplishments of Professor Tien-Yien Li (1945-2020).

To the Memory of Jack K. Hale (1928-2009)

"In the Emory Hospital of Atlanta, in the early morning of December 9, 2009, there passed away a great man, Jack K. Hale -- a founding father of numerous areas of modern dynamics, a noble scholar and teacher, and a mentor and dear friend of many of us around the world." In this article Jack is...

To the memory of L.P. Shilnikov

On 26th Dec 2011, the world lost one of the true pioneers of nonlinear dynamical systems theory; Leonid Pavlovich Shilnikov. He will be sadly missed.
Alan Champneys commemorates LP with an obituary.

Top 10 reasons I’m delighted to be your new chief editor

The new Chief Editor discusses why she's happy in her new position.

Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity

In the week of February 19-23, 2007, a workshop was held in Puebla, Mexico on "Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity". The workshop brought together physicists and applied mathematicians working in nonlinear dynamics and related complex systems. Mike Henderson (IBM T. J. Watson...