Jerrold E. Marsden, 1942-2010

Jerry Marsden, one of the world's pre-eminent mechanicians and applied mathematicians, died on September 21st, 2010 after a 12-year battle with cancer. Phil Holmes and Richard Murray commemorate Jerry.

DSPDEs'10 conference

Steve Schecter reports on DSPDEs'10: Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equation. The conference was held in Barcelona May 31-June 4, 2010 as a joint project of the SIAM activity groups in Applied Dynamical Systems and Analysis of PDEs, the Spanish analogues of AMS and SIAM (Real Sociedad Matemática Española and Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada), and the Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques.

An Outline of Ergodic Theory

Reviewer: Charles H. Morgan, Jr.
Book Reviews editor

Nonlinear Dynamics: New Directions

This conference was dedicated to Valentin Afraimovich on the occasion of his 65th birthday and held at CIMAT in Guanajuato, in the hills of central Mexico.

Floris Takens (1940–2010)

Floris Takens, Professor, Emiritus, at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, passed away on Sunday, 20 June. He was 69 years old.

A legal alien: a Dutchman in Providence

From Amsterdam to Providence: Peter van Heijster on his experiences as a recent postdoc at Brown.

The Fourth International Conferenceon Recent Advances in Applied Dynamical Systems

Jinqiao Duan reports from the conference, June 16-20 2010, at Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China.

The 8th AIMS Conference on DynamicalSystems, Differential Equations and Applications

The 8th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications took place from 25 May to 28 May 2010. About 1400 mathematicians and scientists from 50 countries met in the beautiful German city of Dresden to discuss new results and developments in these fields. Here, Thomas Wagenknecht shares his impressions.

Vladimir I. Arnol'd (1937–2010)

Vladimir I. Arnol'd, Professor, Emiritus, at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow, Russia, and at the University Paris-Dauphine in France, passed away on Thursday, 3 June. He was 72 years old.