Conferences Listed in Previous issues

• Second SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, 12-14 May 1997.

  Holiday Inn, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

  The conference will gather the interdisciplinary community of scientists working on mathematical and computational aspects of materials science. One goal is to examine recent methodological advances in areas such as:

  • Analysis of moving surfaces
  • Fast boundary integral methods
  • Macroscopic consequences of microstructure
  • Patter formation due to energy minimisation

  A second goal is to highlight recent accomplishments in areas such as:

  • Materials design, synthesis and processing
  • Simulation of phase transformation dynamics
  • Stress effects in thin films

  A third goal is to identify promising directions for new developments of a mathematical or computational nature, in areas such as:

  • Atomic-scale modelling
  • Liquid crystals and polymers
  • Magnetic materials
  • Plasticity

  Materials science is an interdisciplinary subject. The conference will include scientists from a broad range of backgrounds, including mechanics, physics, engineering, mathematics and computational science.

• Fourth SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems, 18-22 May 1997 .

  Snowbird, Utah.

  One of the pleasures of nonlinear dynamics is its interdisciplinary character. This conference will emphasise the interplay among disciplines that has always been a key feature of research in dynamical systems and its applications. It will bring together a diverse group of mathematicians, scientists, and engineers from academe, industry, and government. The themes highlight those areas in which dynamical systems has recently made exciting progress and provide a forum for discussion of future directions.

• 8th Ukrainian Conference: Modelling and Stability Investigations of Systems, 18-22 May 1997.

  Kiev University, Ukraine.

  Purpose: This conference gathers the best scientists in the field of modelling and stability investigation from the Ukraine and from the European countries.

  Topics: The following main topics are planned for discussion: (1) Mathematical methods of systems investigation; (2) Mathematical modelling of processes; (3) Modelling and processes investigation in mechanics.

  Participation: If you would like to participate , please respond no later than February 10, 1997, and submit to the Organising Committee two copies of an abstract (one typewritten page) by the same date. The accommodation of participants will be in the hotel of Kiev University.

  Information: Correspondence should be addressed to: D.Ya. Khusainov, Conference of Modelling and Stability, Faculty of Cybernetics, Kiev University, Vladimirskaya Str., 64 252033, Kiev, Ukraine; e-mail: denis@cyb.univ.kiev.uu.

• Second International Symposium: Algorithms for Macromolecular Modelling, 21-24 May 1997.

  Berlin, Germany.

• Sixth Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear Dynamics Theory and Applications in Economics and OR/MS Information, 21-23 May 1997

  Vienna, Austria

• Second Annual Summer School on Nonlinear Dynamics in Biology and Medicine, 25 May to 6 June 1997.

  Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, Montreal, Quebec.

• The International Conference on Mathematical Biology, 26-29 May 1997.

  Hangzhou, China.

• Symposium on Differential-Algebraic Equations: Algebraic and Numerical Aspects, 26-28 May 1997.

  Grenoble, France

  Focus: The objective of this symposium is to bring together researchers, from various fields, actively involved in the area of differential-algebraic equations (DAE). The symposium is organised by the Computer Algebra Team of the Laboratoire de Modelisation et Calcul, Institut de Mathematiques Appliquees de Grenoble (LMC-IMAG).

  Themes: Mathematical tools (index, canonical forms, singularities...), algebraic algorithms and computation, numerical methods, software for the analysis and integration of DAE's, applications (physics, mechanics, chemistry, control...).

• Mathematical Models in Medical and Health Sciences, 28-31 May 1997.

  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

  Aim: This conference, held in conjunction with the 12th Annual Shanks Lecture, will focus upon applications of mathematical models to medical and health sciences. The purpose of the conference is to bring together mathematicians, biologists, and medical researchers in a forum that promotes their interdisciplinary cooperation.

• Solitons and Coherent Structures in Physics and Biology, 30 May - 3 June, 1997

  10th SOLPHYS meeting: DTU, Lyngby, Denmark

• Advanced School on Mathematical Models of Systems involving Phase Changes, 2-20 June 1997.

  International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, U.K.

  Participants: The school is intended for mathematicians, metallurgists, geophysicists, and researchers in related areas at the postdoctoral level who work with dynamical mixed phase systems. Participants will be expected to take part in the whole three-week program. The number taking part will be restricted to about twelve.

• NFS/CBMS Regional Conference: Numerical Analysis of Hamiltonian Differential Equations, 2-6 June 1997.

  Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA.

  This conference features a distinguished lecturer (J.M. Sanz-Serna) who speaks on a topic of current research. Support for about thirty participants is provided. The conference organisers will invite both established researchers and interested newcomers, including postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.

• NFS/CBMS Regional Conference: Dynamical Systems in Structured Population Dynamics, 3-8 June 1997.

  North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

  This conference features a distinguished lecturer (J.M. Cushing) who speaks on a topic of current research. Support for about thirty participants is provided. The conference organisers will invite both established researchers and interested newcomers, including postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.

• Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications, 8-14 June 1997.

  Herakleion (Crete), Greece.

• Workshop: Homotopy and Geometry, 9-13 June 1997.

  Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland.

  Scope: The workshop is devoted to interactions between homotopy and geometry, with an emphasis on the interplay between rational homotopy theory, symplectic geometry and dynamical systems.

  Topics: Homotopy and Lusternik-Schnirelmann category, Conley's index, Arnold's conjecture, the problem of Weinstein-Thurston, the homotopy theory of symplectic manifolds and other relevant problems in rational homotopy theory.

• Workshop on Mathematical Issues in Bioremediation and Flow through Porous and Fractured Media, 11-13 June, 1997.

  Los Alamos National Laboratory Study Center, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States.

• Conference in honour of Vladimir Arnol'd, 15-21 June 1997

  Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada

  Purpose: Vladimir Arnol'd will be 60 in 1997 and The Fields Institute will celebrate the occasion by hosting a conference along the lines of his research interests. These interests include singularity theory, bifurcation theory, mechanics (KAM theory, averaging, normal forms, geometric mechanics, symmetry), wave front sets, Coxeter groups, fluid mechanics and aperiodic order, as well as the history of these subjects.
  In addition to talks by the main speakers, V. Arnol'd will give three one-hour lectures as a Fields Institute Distinguished Lecturer, and, to allow participants and students an opportunity to present their results, a poster session will be held.

• Fourth SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences 16-18 June 1997.

  Sheraton Old Town Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

  The study of problems such as groundwater contamination, air pollution, weather prediction, maximising production of existing oil reservoirs, and ocean sea hydrodynamics requires interdisciplinary collaboration and the merging of mathematical modelling with experiments and theory. By bringing together mathematicians, computational scientists, and other researchers working in industry, government laboratories, and universities, meaningful progress can be made in understanding and predicting the complex physical phenomena in the geosciences.

• Workshop on The Conely Index Theory, 16-27 June 1997 .

  Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warsaw, Poland.

  Purpose The purpose of this workshop is to bring together mathematicians working in differential equations, dynamical systems, nonlinear analysis and topology who are interested in developing and applying the methods of the Conley index theory and related subjects. The organisers hope that on one hand the workshop will give interested people an opportunity to become acquainted with the details of the theory and on the other hand it will be a forum where new areas of applications and new techniques of the theory will be developed. The meeting will encompass a series of introductory lectures, survey talks and research reports.

  Topics: Decomposition of invariant sets; the Conley index and its generalisations; relations to other invariants; lower bounds on dynamics via semiconjugacies; existence of invariant sets; numerical methods; singular perturbation theory; applications to ODE, PDE, and FDE.

• Fractals and Dynamic Systems in Geoscience, 18-20 June, 1997

  3rd International Conference: High Tatras, Slovakia

• Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Dynamical Systems, 18-28 June, 1997

  11th NEEDS workshop: Kolymbari, Crete

• Second Workshop on Fixed Point Theory, 23-28 June 1997.

  The Institute of Mathematics of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (UMCS), Lublin, Poland.

  The workshop will feature a series of minicourses of three lectures each, one hour plenary lectures delivered by invited speakers and a problem session.

• L'Ingénieur et les Fractales: Fractals in Engineering 25-27 June 1997.

  Arachon, France.

• IMS'97 - The Second International Mathematica Symposium, 29 June - July 4 1997.

  Rovaniemi Institute of Technology, Rovaniemi, Finland.

  Topics: Applications of Mathematica computer algebra environment in mathematics and computer science, physical and biological sciences, and the disciplines of economics, education and engineering.

• Disordered Systems and Quantum Chaos, July to December 1997

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  NATO ASI Meeting, 8 - 19 Sept 1997

  Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK.

• Applied Nonlinear Dynamics near the Millenium (ANDM97) 7-11 July 1997

  San Diego, California, USA.

• SIAM's 45 Anniversary Meeting 14-18 July 1997.

  Stanford University, United States.

• Difference Equations and Their Applications, 14-25 July 1997.

  University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA.

  Programme: Numerous applications that lead to difference equations will be given while introducing the subject. During the first week of the programme discrete modelling of problems will be emphasised. The second week of the programme will discuss discrete Hamiltonian systems, symplectic systems, Riccatti equations, and continued fractions. Many open problems at the introductory level and at the advanced level will be proposed. The conference will attempt to show why the beauty of this subject has led to a large number of people doing research in the area. No previous knowledge of the theory of difference equations will be assumed.

  Speakers: C. Ahlbrandt (University of Missouri-Columbia), and A. Peterson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln).

  Sponsors: The Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium and the University of Wyoming.

  Deadline: For application/call for papers: April 1, 1997.

  Information: A.D. Porter, Mathematics Department, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA; e-mail: adporter@uwyo.edu.

• An International Conference on Differential Equations with Applications to Biology, 25-29 July 1997.

  Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

  Aim: The conference will inform the general differential equations community and mathematical biology community of important and current work and differing perspectives in a variety of areas. The topics of the conference include difference equations, partial differential equations, functional differential equations (delay and integral equations), and their applications in biology and other related subjects, such as ecology, epidemiology, medicine, neurobiology, oceanography, physiology, psychology, zoology, etc. The conference will bring together mathematicians and applied scientists for 5 days of plenary lectures, invited and contributed talks in multiple sessions on specific themes such as bifurcation and chaos, stability theory, neuronal networks, disease transmission, population dynamics, pattern formation, etc. and individual discussions.

• New Applications of Nonlinear and Chaotic Dynamics in Mechanics, 27 July-1 Aug 1997

  IUTAM Symposium at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

• 4th. European Conference on Artificial Life, 28-31 July, 1997

  Sussex, UK

• International Conference on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems 1-4 August 1997.

  University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA.

  Programme Scope: This conference will focus on recent advances in the theory and applications of differential equations and dynamical systems, including ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, functional differential equations, impulsive differential equations and their corresponding discrete analogs. There will be invited expository addresses, organised special sessions, invited lectures and contributed talks covering recent trends and problems of current interest and important applications in various disciplines.

• 16th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems 3-8 August 1997.

  Cracow, Poland.

• 4th Experimental Chaos Conference: 6-8 Aug 1997.

  Marriott Hotel, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.

• Scientific Computation, Modelling and Applied Mathematics, 24-29 Aug, 1997.

  15th IMACS World Congress, Berlin, Germany.

• Control of Oscillations and Chaos, 27-29 Aug, 1997.

  St Petersburg, Russia.

• Fourth International Conference on Computational Modelling of Free and Moving Boundary Problems (MOVING BOUNDARIES 97), 27-29 August 1997.

  University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.

  Objectives: The classification `free boundary problem' or `moving boundary problem' can be applied to a wide variety of physical situations. The common feature is the presence, in their mathematical model, an an initially unknown (free) boundary or a boundary which moves throughout the analysis, the determination of which is an important part of the solution procedure. Practical examples include ingot solidification and scrap melting in metallurgy, free surface flows in hydraulics and fluids mechanics, and the cooling and freezing of foodstuffs in the food industry. Althoughly completely different in nature, these problems have several common features regarding their mathematical modelling and computational methods of solution.
  
  Rather than concentrate on the more mathematical aspects of the problem, the purpose of this conference is to promote the interaction between engineers, applied mathematicians and numerical analysts involved in the creation, development and application of computational methods to free and moving boundary problems.
  
  The chief objective is the establishment of a useful connection between scientists working in different areas of application but using similar numerical techniques. It is anticipated that the conference will present the most recent algorithms and practical applications in the field, in the form of submitted contributions and invited lectures by well-known scientists.

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• Emerging Applications of Dynamical Systems: Sept 1997-June 1998.

  Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, Minnesota, USA.

  • Fall: September-December 1997, Numerical Analysis of Dynamical Systems.
  • Winter: January-March 1998, Dynamics in Physiology and Chemistry.
  • Spring: April-June 1998, Symmetry and Pattern Formation.

• Second International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues IPCAT 1997 1-4 September, 1997.

  Sheffield, England.

• 1997 Conference of the Dutch Community of Numerical Mathematics, 24-26 September 1997.

  Woudschoten Conference Centre, Zeist, The Netherlands.

  Topics: Topics of the 1997 conference are: (1) nonlinear boundary-value problems (with special attention to continuation methods and bifurcation); 2. generalised eigenvalue problems and singular-value decomposition; 3. numerical treatment of financial models.

• 1997 Fall Central Sectional Meeting of the AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Dynamics 24-26 October, 1997.

  Milwaukee, WI, United States.

• Global Analysis 30 Years later 25-28 March, 1998.

  University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Workshop on Recent Advances in Time Series, July 1998.

  Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

  This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 14th Australian Statistical Congress (6-10 July 1998).

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