Center for Complex Systems Research at UIUC

Alfred Hübler the director of the Center for Complex Systems Research at UIUC presents an overview of the research activities at the center, which is a combination of theoretical and experimental research that directly involves the graduate students at the center.

Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory

The Center for Nonlinear Studies supports basic and applied research in nonlinear phenomena and complex systems in support of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's mission in science and national security.

Challenges and Dynamics at Dynetics

Bryan Rasmussen gives us some insight about his research activities on dynamical systems at the engineering company Dynetics.

Changing Mind, Transitions in Natural and Artificial Environments

Author: F. Orsucci
Reviewer: Ferdinand Verhulst, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Changing Temperatures, Changing Risks: Modeling Dengue Transmission in the Context of Climate Change

Spencer and Skogstad describe work dynamically modeling how climate change will shape dengue transmission.

Chaos

Tradition wants it that we spend several years abroad as postdocs after finishing our PhD, and look for more permanent positions across the globe. This often leads to issues collectively known as "n-body problems" - where n>1. Your Portal-Editor-in-Chief ups the ante by becoming father while moving down under.

Climate Math in San Diego

Recently elected SIAG/DS chair Mary Lou Zeeman describes the special session on the mathematics of climate change at the Joint Math Meetings in San Diego in January, 2008. She lists a series of other ongoing efforts and upcoming conferences on the dynamics of climate change, and describes how members of the dynamics community can contribute both in research and in terms of education to tackle problems of climate change and sustainability.

CODEE - Community of Ordinary Differential Equation Educators

Bob Borrelli of Harvey Mudd College introduces the NSF-funded online repository of materials related to the teaching and learning of ordinary differential equations.

Coherent Structures in Evolutionary Equations

Roughly 40 mathematicians gathered at the Lorentz Center in Leiden from July 12-16, 2010, for a workshop entitled "Coherent Structures in Evolutionary Equations" and organized by Greg Pavliotis and Jens Rademacher.

Collective Cellular Motion in Tissues

Luis Bonilla studies the dynamics of PDE models of collective cell migration in tissues using novel coarse graining.

Complex Networks in Biology and Engineering:From Principles to Applications

A joint Israel-Italy workshop on complex networks led to fruitful multi-country and multi-disciplinary discussions.

Computational Homology

Authors: Tomasz Kaczynski, Konstantin Mischaikow, and Marian Mrozek
Reviewer: R. Ghrist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA

Contact Geometry and Nonlinear Differential Equations

Reviewed by Rich Mikula
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania

Control and Machine Learning

Enrique Zuazua discusses the intricate mathematical connections between control theory and machine learning.

Cornell IGERT Program in Nonlinear Systems

Cornell University provides interdisciplinary graduate training in nonlinear systems with support from the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program of the National Science Foundation.