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

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

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, 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

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