Southwest Regional Workshop on New Directions in Dynamical Systems

University Of Southern California, Los Angeles CA

Investigators

Abstract

The conference is designed to provide a forum for specialists in Dynamical Systems and bordering disciplines to meet, exchange ideas and present their research. The field of Dynamical Systems is acquiring increasing importance because of the connections to other disciplines. Some of these connections have been developed over the past, and there are new applications that are constantly found. Traditionally Dynamics has been related to Analysis, Geometry, Number Theory, Differential Equations. More recent applications are found in molecular biology, population dynamics, theory of communications and economical sciences. Some examples include such recently established and still emerging directions of influence as nonlinearity, chaos, complexity, information flow, internet and self-similar data traffic. The conference continues the tradition of the Southwest Dynamics meetings of which it will be the fourth Southwest Dynamics Workshop. The previous three conferences took place in Austin (U. of Texas, 1994), Tucson (U. of Arizona, 1996) and Denton (U. of North Texas, 1997) respectively. The meeting will take place on the main campus of the University of Southern California on 17--19 November 2000. There will be several 1 hour plenary talks and a larger number of more technical 30 minute talks. Most of the participants will come from the Southwest and Northern Mexico and will include a considerable number of postdocs and graduate students in dynamics an adjacent scientific areas.