Handling editor: Yingfei Yi
Written by: Yuri Latushkin

Dynamical Systems Weekend On the Occasion of Carmen Chicone's 60th Birthday

A dynamical systems conference was held in Columbia, Missouri during 19-21 May 2006 in honor of Carmen Chicone's 60th birthday. The conference was organised by Yuri Latushkin (Missouri) who disigned a program with 8 plenary lectures and 18 other presentations by collaborators and friends of Carmen Chicone; abstracts and lecture slides are available online.

Group photo of the Dynamical Systems Weekend.		Chicone's current PhD students James Benson, Michael Heitzman, Kenneth Felts, and Oksana Bihun.

The plenary speakers were Freddy Dumortier (Hasselt University, Belgium), Chris Jones (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Weishi Liu (University of Kansas), Joel Robbin (University of Wisconsin, Madison), George Sell (University of Minnesota), Roman Shvydkoy (University of Illinois at Chicago), Jorge Sotomayor (University of São Paolo, Brazil), and Yingfei Yi (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Steve Schecter (NC State), Jorge Sotomayor (São Paolo), Carmen Chicone (Missouri), and Dan Offin (Queen's) during a coffee break.		Freddie Dumortier (Hasselt), Jorge Sotomayor (São Paolo), Charles Li (Missouri), and Xiao-Biao Lin (NC State) at the conference dinner.