Are publishers really ready for mathematics e-books?

Editorial by Charles morgan

CAMTP - Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia, European Union

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''.

CODEE - Community of Ordinary Differential Equation Educators

Bob Borrelli of Harvey Mudd College introduces the NSF-funded online repository of materials related to the teaching and learning of ordinary differential equations.

Scholarpedia: Brain Corporation Prize in Computational Neuroscience

Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia as well as Founder and CEO of Brain Corporation, announces a $10k prize for the most popular Scholarpedia article in the field of Computational Neuroscience.

Call for Papers - SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS13)

"Dynamical Systems" by Shlomo Sternberg

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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.