Guckenheimer elected for article on "Bifurcation" in Scholarpedia

The Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems, hosted by Scholarpedia the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia, conducted an election of authors for the article "Bifurcation" with the goal to identify the best living expert to invite to write such an article.

Nomination of Editors for the Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems

In addition to 'Scholar' and 'Curator' Scholarpedia now solicits volunteers for the role of 'Editor'. Editors of Scholarpedia will be elected by the public based on their scholarly achievements and reputation in the field (using the same procedure as election of authors).

Scholarpedia: Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems

The free peer-reviewed Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems that anybody can edit is well on its way to have a serious collection of articles written by experts in dynamical systems. The Editor-in-Chief Eugene Izhikevich reports on the progress made.

DSWeb Tutorial Receives Honors

A portion of the DSWeb-featured tutorial on cardiac dynamics by Elizabeth Cherry and Flavio Fenton was awarded an honorable mention in the interactive media category of the 2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge created by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science. An interview with the two appears in the November issue of SIAM News.

First Announcement: Computational Neuroscience Summer School

Organized by the new Center for Neural Dynamics at the University of Ottawa, the first Canadian Summer School in Computational Neuroscience, which will be held from Sunday June 17, 2007 until Friday June 29, 2007 inclusively.