Books in Brief

Brief summaries.

Topological Methods in Hydrodynamics

Authors: Vladmir Arnold and Boris Khesin
Reviewer: R. Ghrist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA

American Abroad

Bob Wieman made the step of going abroad from America to Europe to do a three-year postdoc at the University of Bristol.

Research on Delayed Dynamical Systems in Budapest

The Department of Applied Mechanics is one of the largest departments of Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The research activities in the department include the whole range of basic mechanics: from statics, dynamics, and vibrations to elasticity, plasticity, and continuum mechanics.

Fifth IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems

Koen Verheyden reports on the Fifth IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, held in Leuven, Belgium, in September 8-10; a beautiful environment, excellent weather and good meals...

A Brief Biography of George R. Sell

Victor Pliss (St Petersburg State University, Russia) wrote this brief biography of George Sell, which will also appear in a special issue of the Journal of Differential Equations in honor of Sell's 65th birthday.

Books in Brief

Brief summaries.

An interview with Jacob Palis

Jacob Palis is world-famous for his work on the fundamental theory of hyperbolic dynamical systems and more recently for proposing a global scenario for a typical system in parameter space and a typical trajectory in the space of events. He is one of the most influential mathematicians in Latin America having advised more than 40 PhD theses of students from 11 different countries. He has gained additional stature as one of the most thoughtful advocates for the development of mathematics in the developing world. Henk W Broer (University of Groningen) interviewed him at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.

The Dynamics of Control

Authors: Fritz Colonius and Wolfgang Kliemann
Reviewer: V. Zharnitsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA