Call for Papers - SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS11)

UOIT - the early days

Nearly seven years ago, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology opened its doors in Oshawa, Ontario, about 50km from Toronto. At the site of this brand new institute there was a college and a collection of not-quite-finished buildings. The founding of a new university was the result of years of intense lobbying for funding with the provincial and the federal government. Lofty ideals were formulated, for instance that of UOIT being a university of the 21st century, where teaching is done using tablets and Wikis instead of chalk and notice boards. In this article, two of the faculty members of the first hour recount their first years at this rapidly growing institute, which expects to reach a student count of over 10,000 in the next few years.

In the memory of Jaroslav Stark, 17 June 1960 – 6 June 2010

Jaroslav Stark commemorated by Paul Glendinning. This will be published in the August 2010 issue of 'Mathematics Today', the IMA's members publication.

Nonlinear Dynamics of Natural Systems+ fifth birthday

The Dutch Mathematics Cluster "Nonlinear Dynamics of Natural Systems+" celebrated its fifth birthday with a weeklong conference. It highlighted the research done in the cluster, and looked ahead with many presentations from cluster members as well as external speakers. The conference was a celebration and showcase of applied mathematics.

To the Memory of Jack K. Hale (1928-2009)

"In the Emory Hospital of Atlanta, in the early morning of December 9, 2009, there passed away a great man, Jack K. Hale -- a founding father of numerous areas of modern dynamics, a noble scholar and teacher, and a mentor and dear friend of many of us around the world."
In this article Jack is commemorated by Yingfei Yi, who also interviewed him in 2003 for DSWeb Magazine.

The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Catastrophe Theory

In the 2009 Moser Lecture, titled “Catastrophes, Symmetry-Breaking, Synchrony-Breaking,” Golubitsky surveyed the rise, fall, and legacy of catastrophe theory. In particular, he showed how some of the ideas of catastrophe theory can be applied to study the dynamics of networks.

Crawford prize winners revisited: Björn Sandstede

The Crawford prize is awarded biannually since 2001 at the `Snowbird' conferences by the SIAM activity group on dynamical systems for recent outstanding work on a topic in nonlinear science. In a planned series of articles we invite the winners to write about their mathematical biography, their work, and what they consider important problems in the field of applied dynamical system. This article contains the contribution of the first prize winner Björn Sandstede.

Linear Partial Differential Equations and Fourier Theory

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

Welcome to academia after 30 years in industry

After 30 years of working at Harwell Laboratory in Oxfordshire, Andrew Cliffe left his position as a Senior Consultant with Serco Assurance for a Professorship at the University of Nottingham. Hinke Osinga asks him about the differences between working in a company and at a university and how he decided on his career path.