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98th Statistical Mechanics Conference
Rutgers University
December 16-18, 2007

At this meeting we will celebrate the achievements of five distinguished experimental colleagues: Guenther Ahlers, Herman Cummins, Jerry Gollub, Anneke Sengers, and Harry Swinney.
The list of tentative titles include:

GUEST OF HONOR SPEAKERS
* Guenter Ahlers: The large-scale circulation in Rayleigh-Benard convection: A dynamical system driven by the fury of turbulence!

* Herman Cummins: Light-Scattering Spectroscopy of Phase Transitions: From Liquid-Vapor to Liquid-Glass and Liquid-Gel

* Jerry Gollub: Curvature Fields, Topology, and the Dynamics of Spatiotemporal Chaos

* Anneke Sengers: Women for Science - Retrospective and Outlook

* Harry Swinney: Volume fluctuations, an invariant distribution, and a phase transition in a static granular medium

INVITED SPEAKERS

* Mahesh Bandi: Dynamics of the Jamming Transition

* Andrea Bertozzi: Swarming by Nature and by Design

* Lesser Blum: The Analytical Solution of the Extended Soft Binding Mean Spherical Approximation

* Bulbul Chakraborty: Phase Space for Jamming: A statistical ensemble for granular packings

* Susan Coppersmith: Using the renormalization group to classify Boolean functions

* Siegfried Dietrich: Critical Casimir Forces

* Charles Doering: Statistical steady state mixing measures and effective diffusivities

* Alexander Figotin: Nonlinear dynamics of a system of particle-like wavepackets

* Michael Fisher: TBA

* Gabor Forgacs: Computational tissue-engineering: relating biophysical properties across scales from the subcellular to the organ level

* Seth Fraden: The Phase Chip Manipulating Phase Diagrams with Microfluidics

* Peter Fratzl: Natural materials as mechanical devices

* Sharon Glotzer: TBA

* Italo Guarneri: Accelerator Modes in Cold Atom Optics

* Pierre Hohenberg: TBA

* Stanislas Leibler: TBA

* Jackson Mayo: Front propagation in random media: An application of Burgers turbulence and directed polymers

* Zohar Nussinov: Inhomogeneous orders, glassy dynamics, and unusual thermodynamics on curved surfaces and frustrated systems

* Adrian Parsegian: Polymers Confined: in cells, in test tubes, and in brushes

* David Pine: A nonequilibrium dynamical transition in periodically strained suspensions

* Mark Ratner: TBA

* Daniel Rothman: Time-Dependent Reactivity in Earth's Carbon Cycle

* Beate Schmittmann: Lack of consensus in social systems

* Eugene Shakhnovich: How statistical mechanics of proteins shapes biological evolution

* Alan Sokal: Fermionic (Grassmann) representation for spanning (hyper)forests and other combinatorial objects

* Gene Stanley: New Results on Water in Bulk, Nanoconfined, and Biological Environments

* Henk VanBeijeren: Green-Kubo for solids

* Michael Vogelius: Electromagnetic cloaking and near-cloaking of objects

* John Weeks: Structure of water near charged or hydrophobic walls

* Ron Weiss: Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells

* Ben Widom: Effect of a solute on the structure and energetics of its solvent - and vice versa

* Michael Widom: Target gene identification for RNA interference

* Robert Ziff: Percolation and the Quasi-static state of dynamical processes

UK Dynamical Systems Graduate School
Stochastic and Random Dynamics
Imperial College London
19-23 November, 2007

This consists of four one-week schools in different locations around the UK and on different topics in Dynamics. The general level of the schools is introductory to intermediate and in particular the schools are specifically aimed at graduate students and researchers who are not necessarily specialists in the topic of the school. The first school will take place at

Imperial College London, 19-23 November, on the topic of

Analysis and Applications of Partial Differential Equations
Stochastic and Random Dynamics.

Four minicourses will be offered:

Vitor Araujo (UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro)
An Introduction to stochastic stability for discrete dynamical systems

Alexander Bufetov (Rice University, USA)
An introduction to entropy

Jean-Rene Chazottes (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
An introduction to fluctuations of observables in ergodic theory

Greg Pavliotis (Imperial College London)
An introduction to random perturbations in continuous time

Topics in Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups
MSRI
November 12 - 16, 2007

Topics in Geometric Group Theory
MSRI
November 5 - 9, 2007

Organized By: Noel Brady, Mike Davis, Mark Feighn

The 18th Fall meeting of the Workshop in Dynamical Systems and Related Topics
Penn State University Park
October 18-21, 2007

SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE:

John Clemens, Penn State
Giovanni Forni, Maryland
Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois
Andrey Gogolev, Penn State
Larry Guth*, Stanford
Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts
Vadim Kaloshin, Maryland and Penn State
Vitali Kapovich*, Toronto
John Mather, Princeton
Hee Oh, Brown
Stephen Simpson, Penn State
Marcelo Viana, IMPA
Benjamin Weiss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yuri Zarhin*, Penn State
Wolfgang Ziller*, University of Pennsylvania

* Geometry session speaker

Organizers:
Anatole Katok
Svetlana Katok

Geometry Special Session organized by Dmitri Burago

Wesleyan Dynamical Systems Conference
Conference in honor of Ethan Coven
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
October 13-14, 2007

Speakers

Louis Block,
Alexander Blokh,
Hillel Furstenberg,
Aimee Johnson,
Bryna Kra,
Bruce Kitchens,
Brian Marcus,
Michal Misiurewicz,
Zbigniew Nitecki,
Karl Petersen,
Aimee Wilkinson
James Yorke.

 
Organizing Committee
Petra Bonfert-Taylor
Adam Fieldsteel
Michael Keane
Edward Taylor

International Conference on DYNAMICAL METHODS AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING
Valladolid, Spain
September 18 - 22, 2007

The conference will focus on recent advances in dynamical methods which are relevant in the theory of -ordinary, partial, functional and stochastic- differential equations. Special attention will be paid to the applications in biology, engineering, physics and other applied sciences.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

    Tomas Caraballo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
    Amadeu Delshams, Universitat Politecnica de Catalua, Spain
    Peter Kloeden, University of Frankfurt, Germany
    Angel Jorba, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
    Sylvia Novo, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
    Carmen Nez, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
    Rafael Obaya, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
    Jose Real, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain


Short talks in all areas of dynamical systems and  differential equations are welcome, and a limited number of financial grants for graduate and doctoral  students are available. The deadline for preregistration and submission of abstracts is March 31, 2007.

Please visit the web site

https://web.archive.org/web/20080317205013/http://wmatem.eis.uva.es/~dm07

for further information and periodic updates on the Conference program, on-line pre-registration, registration fees, submission of abstract, grant application and accommodation facilities.

Geometry, Rigidity and Group actions
A conference in honor of Robert J. Zimmer's 60th Birthday
University of Chicago
September 7 - 9, 2007

Speakers

David Fisher Indiana University
Alex Furman University of Illinois, Chicago
Anatole Katok Pennsylvania State University
Alexander Lubotzky Hebrew University, Israel
Gregory Margulis Yale University
Amos Nevo Technion, Israel
Leonid Polterovich Tel Aviv University, Israel
Sorin Popa University of California, Los Angeles
Yehuda Shalom Tel Aviv University, Israel
Shmuel Weinberger University of Chicago

International conference ANALYSIS and SINGULARITIES
Dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Vladimir Igorevich Arnold
Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia
August 20-24, 2007

Topics in Algebraic Geometry, Singularity Theory, Differential Equations, Mechanics, Hydrodynamics, Number Theory.

Organizing committee:

Yu. S. Osipov (Chairman)     
Yu. S. Ilyashenko
V. V. Kozlov (Deputy Chairman)     
A. G. Khovanski
V. A. Vassiliev (Deputy Chairman)     
S. M. Lando
V. N. Chubarikov     
E. F. Mishchenko
A. A. Davydov     
A.G. Sergeev
V. V. Goryunov     
V. M. Zakalyukin.
S. V. Gusein-Zade

Statistical Physics of Social Dynamics: Opinions, Semiotic Dynamics, and Language
Erice, Italy
16-20 July 2007

International school of Complexity
Directors: G. Benedek, M. Gell-Mann, L. Pietronero, C. Tsallis, A. Zichichi

"Statistical physics of social dynamics: opinions, semiotic dynamics and language"
Directors: Vittorio Loreto and Luc Steels
 
Satellite Workshop of STATPHYS 2007 (9-13 July 2007).

Statistical mechanics has proven to be a very fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the realm of traditional physics. The last years have witnessed the attempt by physicists to study phenomena which heavily rely on human behavior, like the dynamics of financial markets and the emergence of collective organization in social systems. Social interactions are usually local: every individual interacts with a limited number of its peers, which is negligible as compared with the total number of people inside a community. In spite of that, human societies are characterized by a number of stunning global regularities. There are remarkable transitions from disorder to order, like the emergence of a common language/culture or the creation of a consensus about a specific topic. The conference will specifically focus on three major research lines, i.e. opinion dynamics, cultural dynamics and the evolution of language.

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