COUPLED 60

The Coupled 60 workshop was held at the University of Houston, February 3-6, 2005. The workshop was devoted to the dynamics, classification, and applications of coupled systems, but simultaneously offered an opportunity to mark the 60th birthdays of five participants: Mike Field, Marty Golubitsky, John Guckenheimer, Phil Holmes, and Ian Stewart.

Martin Golubitsky, President of SIAM

Martin Golubitsky is well known for his work on dynamical systems with symmetry. He was chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems (1999-2000) and just started his two-year term as SIAM President. Hinke Osinga talks with him about SIAM and his views of what SIAM can do for applied mathematics, and dynamical systems in particular.

Books in Brief

Brief summaries.

Linear Systems, Exponential Dichotomy, and Structure of Sets of Hyperbolic Points

Authors: Z. Lin and Y.-X. Lin
Reviewer: J. Jung, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Travelling Waves in Nonlinear Diffusion-Convection Reaction

Authors: B.H. Gilding and R. Kersner
Reviewer: Ferdinand Verhulst, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

Geometrical Theory of Dynamical Systems and Fluid Flows

Authors: T. Kambe
Reviewer: R. Ghrist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Americas Conference on Differential Equations and Nonlinear Analysis

The bi-annual Americas Conference on Differential Equations and Nonlinear Analysis was organised by the Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute and held in Santiago-Chile at the Centro de Modelamiento Matemático Universidad de Chile, January 10-21, 2005.

Dynamical Systems in Kyoto

The Kyoto Dynamical Systems Research Group in Mathematics is the largest dynamical systems group in Japan. Hiroshi Kokubu introduces the members and their activities.

The Chaos Avant-Garde: Memories of the Early Days of Chaos Theory

Authors: Ralph Abraham and Yoshisuke Ueda
Reviewer: R. Ghrist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA