2013 - the year of The Mathematics of Planet Earth

2013 - the year of The Mathematics of Planet Earth

The International Mathematical Union has declared 2013 to be the year of The Mathematics of Planet Earth. Here is a short guide to some of the activities and resources.

The future of Snowbird

The future of Snowbird

The bi-annual meeting of our AG will take place in Snowbird, Utah, this spring. The 2015 meeting will also be held there, but the location of the 2017 meeting has not been decided yet. One option is, obviously, for the AG to renew its contract with Snowbird and continue a tradition that started twenty years ago. However, over the years the character, scope and size of the meeting have changed, and some feel that the expiry of the current contract is a good opportunity to look for alternatives. Since this is a matter that affects most of our members, the DSWeb Magazine team will use the Editorial to open a discussion, in the hope that some concensus can be found in May.

ANZIAM'13

ANZIAM'13

Your portal editor-in-chief visited the yearly ANZIAM (Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics) meeting for the first time. Below is a photo impression of the meeting.

SIAM Life Sciences meeting

SIAM Life Sciences meeting

Tim Lewis, departing co-chair of the SIAM Life Science Conferences, reports on the many dynamical systems applications presented in San Diego.

Dynamics and Patterns at the annual German Math Association meeting

Dynamics and Patterns at the annual German Math Association meeting

This year's annual meeting of the German Mathematician's Association featured minisymposia ''Dynamical Systems'' and ''Patterns and Waves''.

Chaos

Chaos

Tradition wants it that we spend several years abroad as postdocs after finishing our PhD, and look for more permanent positions across the globe. This often leads to issues collectively known as "n-body problems" - where n>1. Your Portal-Editor-in-Chief ups the ante by becoming father while moving down under.

IUTAM Symposium on 50 Years of Chaos in Kyoto

IUTAM Symposium on 50 Years of Chaos in Kyoto

On November 27, 1961, Yoshisuke Ueda, then a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Kyoto University, accidentally observed a "randomly transitional phenomenon", now commonly known as "chaos". Fifty years later and approximately 150 meters from the site of Ueda's discovery, the IUTAM Symposium on 50 Years of Chaos: Applied and Theoretical ws held. Jeff Moehlis reports.

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