On the future of our AG meeting

Former chair of the AG, Alan Champneys, reacts to our January editorial on the future of the bi-annual meeting of the Dynamical Systems group.

Reaction to our April Editorial on scientific publishing.

In his April editorial, Jens Rademacher discussed some of the perils of open source publishing. One of the web sites he cited, Scholarly Open Access, features Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) as "predatory open-access publisher". Chris Cannings is Emeritus Professor of mathematics at the University of Sheffield and Editor-in-Chief of SCIRP's Applied Mathematics. DSWeb Magazine asked him for a reaction, which is summarized here.

Reactions to "Edelspam"

In our first Editorial, Lennaert van Veen brought up the issue of academic phishing, bogus conferences, pushy publishers and other highly targeted spam we face in our profession. In particular, ICIAM TV was mentioned as an example. Tony Harkin of the Rochester Institute of Technology comments.

Reactions to The end of theory?

In the January, 2011 issue of DSWeb, Krešo Josić discussed claims that software is able to autonomously generate scientific theories in The end of theory?.
Tony Harkin and Siemion Faitlowicz commented.