The end of theory?

The end of theory?

This is an adaptation of a radio episode from the NPR program Engines of Our Ingenuity. It was inspired by a recent article in Wired on the program eureqa which "discovered" Newton's laws of motion - are Dynamical Systems' analysts becoming obsolete?


Recent Advances in the Numerical Approximation of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

Recent Advances in the Numerical Approximation of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

The conference was a NSF/CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences, and took place at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), August 9--13, 2010, Chicago. It was organised by Jinqiao Duan ([email protected]), Igor Cialenco, and Fred J. Hickernell.


Coherent Structures in Evolutionary Equations

Coherent Structures in Evolutionary Equations

Roughly 40 mathematicians gathered at the Lorentz Center in Leiden from July 12-16, 2010, for a workshop entitled "Coherent Structures in Evolutionary Equations" and organized by Greg Pavliotis and Jens Rademacher.

DSPDEs'10 conference

DSPDEs'10 conference

Steve Schecter reports on DSPDEs'10: Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equation. The conference was held in Barcelona May 31-June 4, 2010 as a joint project of the SIAM activity groups in Applied Dynamical Systems and Analysis of PDEs, the Spanish analogues of AMS and SIAM (Real Sociedad Matemática Española and Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada), and the Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques.

Nonlinear Dynamics: New Directions

Nonlinear Dynamics: New Directions

This conference was dedicated to Valentin Afraimovich on the occasion of his 65th birthday and held at CIMAT in Guanajuato, in the hills of central Mexico.

Floris Takens (1940–2010)

Floris Takens (1940–2010)

Floris Takens, Professor, Emiritus, at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, passed away on Sunday, 20 June. He was 69 years old.


The Fourth International Conferenceon Recent Advances in Applied Dynamical Systems

The Fourth International Conferenceon Recent Advances in Applied Dynamical Systems

Jinqiao Duan reports from the conference, June 16-20 2010, at Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China.

The 8th AIMS Conference on DynamicalSystems, Differential Equations and Applications

The 8th AIMS Conference on DynamicalSystems, Differential Equations and Applications

The 8th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications took place from 25 May to 28 May 2010. About 1400 mathematicians and scientists from 50 countries met in the beautiful German city of Dresden to discuss new results and developments in these fields. Here, Thomas Wagenknecht shares his impressions.


Vladimir I. Arnol'd (1937–2010)

Vladimir I. Arnol'd (1937–2010)

Vladimir I. Arnol'd, Professor, Emiritus, at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow, Russia, and at the University Paris-Dauphine in France, passed away on Thursday, 3 June. He was 72 years old.


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