SIAG/DS election results

The results of the October 2007 elections for officers of the SIAM Activity Group in Dynamical Systems can already be announced. We introduce the new SIAG/DS team and thank those who participated in last fall's elections.

Asymptotic Analysis and Boundary Layers

Reviewed by Ferdinand Verhulst

AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture Prize

Call for nominations for the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture prize, to be awarded at the 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting in July 2008. Deadline for nominations is November 15th, 2007.

Industry experience at The Aerospace Corporation

Lael Fisher, a recent PhD from Northwestern University, has found a professional home in the Navigation and Geopositioning Systems Department at The Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles, California. Recently, Chad Topaz had the opportunity to ask Lael about her transition, which includes a switch from fluid dynamics to orbital dynamics and a switch from individual research to a team environment. Lael discusses the scientific and career development aspects of her recent experiences in this Q&A interview.

Interview with Freddy Dumortier

Freddy Dumortier is well known for his work in bifurcation theory, blow-up techniques and slow-fast systems. His 60th birthday was celebrated in April 2007 in Hasselt and Brussels with the conference Dynamics in Perturbations. Bernd Krauskopf used this opportunity to talk to him at the Belgian Academy of Sciences Building about his views on the field of dynamical systems.

UK Dynamical Systems Graduate School

The UK Dynamical Systems Graduate School consists of four one-week schools in different locations around the UK and on different topics in Dynamics. The general level of the schools is introductory to intermediate and in particular the schools are specifically aimed at graduate students and researchers who are not necessarily specialists in the topic of the school.