Handling editor: Evelyn Sander
by Jeff Moehlis, Program Director SIAG/DS
The SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (the "Snowbird
Conference") will be held May 17-21, 2009 in Snowbird, Utah. The scope
of this conference encompasses theoretical, computational, and experimental
research on dynamical systems. Highlighted areas are climate modeling,
biological systems, engineering systems, Hamiltonian systems,
stochastic systems, networks, uncertainty management, pattern
formation, and fluid dynamics. Invited presentations will be given
by
- Frank Allgöwer, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
- John Bush, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Henk Dijkstra, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Ute Ebert, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands
- Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania
- Alain Goriely, University of Arizona
- Rachel Kuske, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Ian Melbourne, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
- Igor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Tere Seara, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
For the first time, the Snowbird Conference will include a minitutorial
session to be held concurrently with minisymposia. This is a two-hour
session whose purpose is to highlight a future direction or emerging area
at a level accessible to nonexperts. The minitutorial will be organized
by Andrea Bertozzi from the University of California, Los Angeles on
swarming and collective motion.
The deadline for minisymposium proposals is October 14, 2008, and the
deadline for the submission of minisymposium speaker abstracts, contributed
presentation abstracts, and poster abstracts is November 11, 2008.
As was done for the last Snowbird Conference, individuals will be limited
to giving at most one minisymposium or contributed lecture. This will
help us to fit as many people as possible into the schedule. (Please
remember that you are welcome attend even if you are not giving a
presentation!) To ensure balance, we also prefer that a single
individual not be the organizer or co-organizer of more than one
minisymposium. Finally, please note the following important change from
previous Snowbird Conferences: six-speaker minisymposia are not being
solicited. Only four speaker sessions will be considered.
It has been a pleasure working with co-chair Bruno Eckhardt and the
rest of the Organizing Committee to plan this conference. For further
information, see http://www.siam.org/meetings/ds09/.