Red Sock Award for Best Posters at DS19

Andrew Bernoff writes about the Red Sock Award for the best poster presentations in dynamical systems by a student or postdoc at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, 2019.

The Value of Collaboration and Networking for Female Mathematicians

Lina Sorg ([email protected]) reports on a presentation by Dr. Fengyan Li of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2019), Valencia, Spain, where Fengyan Li  shared firsthand accounts of her personal collaborative efforts and networking experiences.

Math in Our Lives: Dynamical Systems

SIAM has released an explanatory video to introduce and briefly describe applied dynamical systems.

Temporal Clustering in Cell Cycle Dynamics

Todd Young, Kiattisak Prathom, and Jan Rombouts present a review of the results on cell cycle dynamics and clustering in yeast. The review is based on the recent work by the authors themselves, as well as on the publications by Balázs Bárány, Erik Boczko, Nathan Breitsch, Xue Gong, Richard Buckalew, Bastien Fernandez, Tomas Gedeon, Luke Morgan, Gregory Moses, and Alexander Neiman.

The Quadfurcation

Quadfurcation is a bifurcation when four fixed points are created from none at a single location in phase space upon variation of one parameter. This bifurcation is not at all well studied in dynamical systems literature. In this paper Bäcker and Meiss put forth that the quadfurcation is an organizing center for the dynamics of a four-dimensional map, the quadratic diffeomorphism introduced by Moser in 1994.

Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Rioting Activity: A Reaction-Diffusion Approach

Berestycki, Nadal, and Rodríguez introduced and analyzed some systems of partial differential equations that serve as basic models for the spread of rioting activity. 

May the Piecewise-smooth, Smooth, and Slow-fast Plankton be with You

Sofia Piltz discusses developing models for plankton blooms.

4th Bremen Winter School and Symposium: Dynamics, Chaos and Applications

This year's international winter school and symposium on dynamics in Bremen focused on the mathematical concepts of chaos. More than 70 participants enjoyed lecture courses and research talks on approaches and recent developments of chaotic dynamics in skew-product and geodesic flows, ODEs as well as diffeomorphisms and iterated function systems.