On the ballot for DSWeb Magazine

Mason Porter and Elizabeth Cherry agreed to run for Secretary of our AG. The Secretary is also the Editor-in-Chief of DSWeb Magazine. Traditionally, SIAM invites each candidate to write one or two paragraphs to lay out their plans and opinions. These blurbs will appear on the ballot, along with those of the aspiring Chairs, Vice-Chairs, Program Directors and members of the Advisory Board.
We invited Mason and Elizabeth to explain their vision for the Magazine in particular.

Mathematics at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria.

After finishing his PhD in England, Tunde Tajudeen Yusuf opted to return to Nigeria and join the Federal University of Technology in Akure, in the south of the country. He gives us an overview of applied mathematics in Nigeria.

A new content management system for DSWeb: ideas needed!

The DSweb portal is changing to a new content management system and we need your help!

Preparations for AN14

Apart from the Snowbird meeting, our Activity Group also organises tracks of dynamical systems related sessions at a major applied mathematics meetings. Two years ago, Evelyn Sander organised such a track at the 2011 ICIAM meeting in Vancouver. Next year, our AG will be featured along with Computational Science and Engineering and Geosciences at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Chicago. Lennaert van Veen gives an update on the organisation of this event.

On the future of our AG meeting

Former chair of the AG, Alan Champneys, reacts to our January editorial on the future of the bi-annual meeting of the Dynamical Systems group.

Our students need to become better expositors

Which is the bigger challenge: solving the problem or explaining your results? Convincing your collaborator that you are right or convincing the granting agency that your research needs funding? Understanding the fine points of a derivation or understanding the societal context of your work? Krešimir Josić on the importance of communication skills.

Featured minisymposia at Snowbird

The new thing at Snowbird this year: featured minisymposia. What are they about and why should you attend them? Below you will find an overview.

2013 - the year of The Mathematics of Planet Earth

The International Mathematical Union has declared 2013 to be the year of The Mathematics of Planet Earth. Here is a short guide to some of the activities and resources.

A visit to Sano Laboratory

Masaki Sano is one of the pioneers of experimental, theoretical and computational nonlinear dynamics. Back in the eighties, he published, among many other things, work on chaotic attractors in Rayleigh-Bénard convection and systems of coupled oscillators. Today, he leads the Sano Laboratory in the physics department of the University of Tokyo. Members of his group work on topics as diverse as covariant Lyapunov vectors, two-phase thermal convection and experimental realisations of Maxwell's demon. This is a report on a visit by your Editor-in-Chief to Sano Laboratory last September.

The future of Snowbird

The bi-annual meeting of our AG will take place in Snowbird, Utah, this spring. The 2015 meeting will also be held there, but the location of the 2017 meeting has not been decided yet. One option is, obviously, for the AG to renew its contract with Snowbird and continue a tradition that started twenty years ago. However, over the years the character, scope and size of the meeting have changed, and some feel that the expiry of the current contract is a good opportunity to look for alternatives. Since this is a matter that affects most of our members, the DSWeb Magazine team will use the Editorial to open a discussion, in the hope that some concensus can be found in May.