Poetry and cockroaches

Phil Holmes is famous for his broad and innovative work in applied mathematics. Not only does he have a passion for the practical use of abstract mathematics, he also has a love for words and has published four books of poetry. He is currently the chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems. Hinke Osinga talked to him about his work.

First Announcement: Computational Neuroscience Summer School

Organized by the new Center for Neural Dynamics at the University of Ottawa, the first Canadian Summer School in Computational Neuroscience, which will be held from Sunday June 17, 2007 until Friday June 29, 2007 inclusively.

SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems

The SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems will be held in Snowbird, May 28-June 1, 2007. Now is the time to register for participation!

Deadlines	October 30, 2006	:	Minisymposium proposals
	November 27, 2006	:	Abstracts for contributed and minisymposium speakers

Nonlinear Sciences Group at Kobe University, Japan

Nature does not know any boundary of science
- Prof. Kenichi Fukui, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 1981.

Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems

All SIAM members are invited to participate in the election of authors for the Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems, which is hosted by www.scholarpedia.org.