An Outline of Ergodic Theory

Reviewer: Charles H. Morgan, Jr.
Book Reviews editor

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.

A legal alien: a Dutchman in Providence

From Amsterdam to Providence: Peter van Heijster on his experiences as a recent postdoc at Brown.

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.

The 8th AIMS Conference on DynamicalSystems, Differential Equations and Applications

The 8th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications took place from 25 May to 28 May 2010. About 1400 mathematicians and scientists from 50 countries met in the beautiful German city of Dresden to discuss new results and developments in these fields. Here, Thomas Wagenknecht shares his impressions.