Books in Brief: Are publishers ready to deliver math e-books?

DSWeb's book reviews editor tested e-books from some of the biggest mathematics and engineering textbook publishers. Publishers seem intent upon taking us back to the pre-TeX years. By inexplicably avoiding PDF formats, they seem keen to reinvent the wheel for quality reproduction of mathematics symbols.

Recent Advances in the Numerical Approximation of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

The conference was a NSF/CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences, and took place at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), August 9--13, 2010, Chicago. It was organised by Jinqiao Duan ([email protected]), Igor Cialenco, and Fred J. Hickernell.

In Memoriam for Floris Takens, 12 November 1940 – 20 June 2010

Translation of the eulogy given by Henk Broer at the funeral of Floris Takens on August 25, 2010.

Minisymposia and Contributed Presentations for ICIAM 2011

The deadline for submission of minisymposium proposals for ICIAM 2011 is near.

Dynamical Systems Theory and Industrial Research

Slaven Peles is a Senior Research Engineer with United Technologies Research Center in East Hartford, CT. Before joining United Technologies in 2007 he worked as a postdoc at UCSB and was a Joseph Ford Fellow at Georgia Tech. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Manitoba in Canada. Over the last several years his research has been focused on dynamical systems theory and its applications. These are his thoughts on how dynamical systems theory could make an impact in industry.