Photos from Bardfest 2014: Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Methods: From Neuroscience to other Biological Applications

Ernie Barreto presents a photo essay covering Bard Ermentrout's 60th birthday conference.

Dynamical systems applied to neural mass and neural field models

At the last annual meeting of the Organization for Computational Neurosciences (OCNS), there was a lot of attention on neural mass and neural field models, the latter of which treat the mammalian cortex as a continuous, excitable medium. These approaches lead to models that comprise nonlinear ODEs or PDEs, space-dependent delays and other challenging aspects of dynamical systems theory. Stefanos Folias gives an overview of recent work in this fast-growing field of research.

ICMC Summer Meeting on Differential Equations: Celebrating the 70th birthday of Hildebrando Munhoz Rodrigues

Luís F. C. Alberto and Marcio Gameiro report on the ICMC meeting in Sao Carlos, which celebrated the 70th birthday of Hildebrando Munhoz Rodrigues.

Dynamics Days 2014

The 33rd meeting of Dynamics Days US was hosted by the Center for Nonlinear Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) on January 2-5, 2014. Over 150 attendees traveled to Atlanta to present their work on a variety of topics in dynamical systems. Georgia Tech graduate students Christopher Marcotte and Andrea Welsh give their take on the meeting.

Preparations for AN14

Apart from the Snowbird meeting, our Activity Group also organises tracks of dynamical systems related sessions at a major applied mathematics meetings. Two years ago, Evelyn Sander organised such a track at the 2011 ICIAM meeting in Vancouver. Next year, our AG will be featured along with Computational Science and Engineering and Geosciences at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Chicago. Lennaert van Veen gives an update on the organisation of this event.

ANZIAM'13

Your portal editor-in-chief visited the yearly ANZIAM (Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics) meeting for the first time. Below is a photo impression of the meeting.

SIAM Life Sciences meeting

Tim Lewis, departing co-chair of the SIAM Life Science Conferences, reports on the many dynamical systems applications presented in San Diego.

Dynamics and Patterns at the annual German Math Association meeting

This year's annual meeting of the German Mathematician's Association featured minisymposia ''Dynamical Systems'' and ''Patterns and Waves''.

The 9th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications

Luciano Buono reports from Orlando, Florida.