Nonlinear Dynamics in Flavio Fenton‘s Lab at Georgia Tech

Experimental, computational, and theoretical approaches to studying dynamical systems are all welcome in the laboratory of Flavio Fenton at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Learn why the lab‘s students, postdocs, and visitors are having so much fun.

Yasumasa Nishiura's Mathematics Unit at WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research

Your portal editor-in-chief reports on a visit to Yasumasa Nishiura's Mathematics Unit at the WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University in Japan

Biomathematics at the Federal University of Sao Paulo

Fernando Antoneli is Professor in the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics and Biocomplexity at the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. At this year's Snowbird meeting, he gave a talk in a session on coupled cell networks and he is working on various aspects of synchronization and pattern formation on coupled dynamical systems. We invited him to write about academic life and dynamical systems in Sao Paulo.

Mathematics at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria.

After finishing his PhD in England, Tunde Tajudeen Yusuf opted to return to Nigeria and join the Federal University of Technology in Akure, in the south of the country. He gives us an overview of applied mathematics in Nigeria.

A visit to Sano Laboratory

Masaki Sano is one of the pioneers of experimental, theoretical and computational nonlinear dynamics. Back in the eighties, he published, among many other things, work on chaotic attractors in Rayleigh-Bénard convection and systems of coupled oscillators. Today, he leads the Sano Laboratory in the physics department of the University of Tokyo. Members of his group work on topics as diverse as covariant Lyapunov vectors, two-phase thermal convection and experimental realisations of Maxwell's demon. This is a report on a visit by your Editor-in-Chief to Sano Laboratory last September.

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

Dynamical systems at the Bandung Institute of Technology

In 1998, a group of Indonesian students went to the Netherlands to work on a PhD in applied mathematics. From this exchange the dynamical systems group at the Bandung Institute of Technology was born. Theo Tuwankotta, who graduated in Utrecht in 2002, outlines the activities and research interests of this group.

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.

The Sydney Dynamics Group

The Sydney Dynamics Group is a recently formed research collaboration between two major universities in Sydney, Australia. The group consists of eight faculty, fourteen students, four postdocs, and a regular string of international visitors, all fueled by Sydney's outstanding coffee.