Complex Networks in Biology and Engineering:From Principles to Applications

A joint Israel-Italy workshop on complex networks led to fruitful multi-country and multi-disciplinary discussions.

Mathematics and Arts in Leeuwarden

The eleventh annual Bridges conference on Mathematics and the Arts took place in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, July 24-28, 2008. Bernd Krauskopf (University of Bristol, UK) gives a personal account of what this conference is all about and what it has to do with dynamical systems.

The 7th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations

Carmen Chicone and Yuri Latushkin give an account of the 7th American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, held at the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA on May 18-21, 2008.

Bifurcations inDynamical Systems with Applications

May 19-21, Wolf-Jürgen Beyn and Thorsten Hüls organized a workshop in Bielefeld, Germany, that brought together about 50 participants with an interest in computational methods for dynamical systems and applications. Peter Kloeden (Frankfurt) reports for DSWeb Magazine.

Climate Math in San Diego

Recently elected SIAG/DS chair Mary Lou Zeeman describes the special session on the mathematics of climate change at the Joint Math Meetings in San Diego in January, 2008. She lists a series of other ongoing efforts and upcoming conferences on the dynamics of climate change, and describes how members of the dynamics community can contribute both in research and in terms of education to tackle problems of climate change and sustainability.