This award supports travel for junior researchers and plenary speakers participating in the "Seventh International Conference on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems," held 15-18 December 2010 at the University of South Florida. The meeting focuses on recent developments in ordinary differential equations, nonlinear evolution equations, dynamical systems, and applications. The conference features plenary talks from leaders in these fields, as well as contributed presentations by graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty.
The conference will foster collaborations between junior and senior researchers, providing recent PhD recipients with opportunities to present their work and to make contacts with researchers from other institutions. The proceedings of the conference will be published as a supplemental volume of the Journal of Nonlinear Systems and Applications. The conference encourages and supports participation by graduate students, postdocs, junior faculty, women, and minorities.
Conference web site: www.math.usf.edu/7thde/
(DEDS) held at Marshall Center of University of South Florida (USF) from 15-18 December, 2010 was tremendously successful. The local organizing committee, consisting of Dr. Wenxiu Ma as chairman, Dr. Sherwin Kouchekian as co-chairman, Dr. Thomas Bieske, Dr. Venkataraman Vanaja and Dr. Yuncheng You, worked with selection of conference topics, hotel accommodation and schedule of talks during the preparation phase, and the offices of college dean and math department provided staff support throughout the conference. The conference attracted about 150 speakers and 200 participants from 23 countries of Europe, Asia, America and Africa. Featured plenary speakers include Professor Mark J. Ablowitz of University of Colorado at Boulder, Professor Nasir Uddin Ahmed of University of Ottawa, Professor Jerry L. Bona of University of Illinois at Chicago, Professor Shui-Nee Chow of Georgia Institute of Technology, Professor Yuji Kodama of Ohio State University, Professor Samuel L. Krushkal of Bar-Ilan University of Israel and Professor Sen-Yue Lou of Shanghai Jiaotong University of China. The purpose of the conference was to disseminate and exchange the latest ideas and developments in ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, nonlinear evolution equations, dynamical systems and all aspects of interdisciplinary applications. This conference provided a unique international forum in the winter of South Florida, where exciting and interactive exchanges among applied mathematicians, scientists from physical sciences and biology, and computational researchers on frontier research directions and emerging interdisciplinary topics took place to bring about more collaborations and cross-stimulations in this extremely flourishing field. USF provided facilities and covered local organizing expenses. The intimate format of the meeting fostered collaborations between junior and senior researchers, and the exchange of ideas and thoughts is likely to lead in the future to significant scientific advances. The proceedings of the conference will be published as a supplemental volume of the journal ``Journal of Nonlinear Systems and Applications". Most participants reported their recent research, particularly on numerical and theoretical results, using computer algebra systems such as Maple and Mathematica. Therefore, many talks, especially on interdisciplinary topics, provided insightful supplements to graduate courses and interdisciplinary research projects for graduate students majoring in natural sciences and in engineering. All these will also greatly help us achieve the educational goals of USF as a major urban research institution, and will benefit all the young participants as well. The conference has proven to serve as the first important research experience for many beginning researchers and advanced graduate students. New PhDs had an opportunity to present their work and make important contacts with researchers from other institutes and universities, thus launching their research careers. Emphasis was placed on involving junior faculty and graduate students to meet and talk to senior mathematicians at the conference. Features were more interdisciplinary sessions and talks on emerging topics and arising challenges of broad scope. In addition, the DEDS international conferences have always been very successful in promoting participation from under-represented groups, women, and minorities. Because the series of conferences is well-known and well-advertised, this trend continued for the 7th DEDS conference. The conference also provided significant opportunities for education and public outreach to broad audiences. More information about this conference such as galleries of conference photos is available at www.math.usf.edu/7thde/.
