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abstract: The robustness of biological systems is a product of long natural evolution, selecting those organisms and cells, which can better resist fluctuations and damage. To a certain degree, robustness of social organization is an emergent property imposed by historical evolution. However, regulation of social processes is also a matter of design. Indeed, it is the task of any government and parliament to formulate and to enforce laws that would ensure stability of the entire state and its smooth functioning. On the other hand, industrial production and transportation systems are fully planned and designed to meet customers’ demands and manufacturing constraints. Endowing such systems with a capacity to withstand damage and adapt to demand variations is highly desirable.

What are dynamical mechanisms and network architectures which promote robustness? Is it possible to formulate general principles that determine robust functional dynamics? Does robustness emerge through natural evolution? Can computer evolution processes be used to design robust systems? What are the footprints of robustness and can one discern common structural motifs and other statistical properties in robust systems of various origins?

abstract: The First International Conference on Self-Organization in desiccated drops of multi-component fluids: experiments, theories, applications is organized to provide an interface for researchers from diverse scientific disciplines but with common interests in nonlinear dynamics and complex systems. This meeting will draw together researchers to share their most recent results in understanding, modeling, and controlling nonlinear dynamical systems. The meeting is addressed to Mathematicians and Physicists, Engineers and medical people.

abstract: Members of the scientific community interested in the above topics from a theoretical, computational or experimental point of view are invited to attend this Special Session and to contribute with the presentation of papers as well as with the discussions taking place after the presentations.

abstract: Over the last several years, there have been major advances in the experimental observation and theoretical understanding of turbulent plasmas and fluids. This meeting will bring together theoreticians and experimentalists from three different fields, namely plasma turbulence, fluid turbulence, and dynamo physics. Some of the overarching themes will be pattern formation, coherent structures, and the dynamics of tracers in turbulent flows. The goal is to review our current understanding of turbulent plasmas and fluids, to exchange ideas between these research areas, as well as to foster collaborations.

abstract: This conference intends to bring researchers together from all areas of Chaos and Complex Systems

abstract: Colloids, granular materials, foams, hard spheres, and emulsions all provide insight into longstanding questions surrounding glass formation, packing, the role of confinement, and jamming. While only 2D and 3D systems are studied experimentally, theoretical investigations in higher dimensions help compare the statics and dynamics of corresponding phenomena. The aim of this workshop is to use the contrasts and similarities between these different dimensions and systems to identify root causes that are otherwise difficult to disentangle, and suggest novel lines of study.

abstract: El simposio es una conferencia de carácter internacional como homenaje a A. von Humboldt. En este contexto se espera adentrar el intercambio entre investigadores y profesores de diferentes países, en particular de Ibero América y claro está, de Alemania. El centro de la conferencia está dedicado a revisar las investigaciones más recientes en el campo de los sistemas de baja dimensionalidad y sus aplicaciones. Por otra parte se intenta debatir los retos actuales de la Física en relación con la enseñanza, colaboración y aplicaciones de estos temas de actualidad.

abstract: The interplay between biological organisms and hydrodynamic flows influences strongly the ecology of oceans, lakes and rivers, as well as developmental processes in living organisms. These phenomena at the interface between biology and physics cover different temporal and spatial scales from small-scale turbulence to mesoscale hydrodynamic activity on the physical side, and from bacteria and other cellular organisms up to swimming animals like fish on the biological side.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together scientists from various disciplines who investigate organisms in fluid flows from different perspectives and to address, among others, topics like: impact of mesoscale mixing on biology, population dynamics in rivers, non-passive transport, experimental biology in fluids, bioconvection and the influence of small-scale turbulence on plankton. The general goal of the workshop is to facilitate cross-fertilization between the different scientific communities and to stimulate joint interdisciplinary projects among the participants.

abstract: This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will focus on low (Hausdorff) dimensional structures in differential delay equations with state dependent time lags.

abstract: Celestial mechanics and atomic physics share a common interest in studying the dynamics of few-body systems interacting via 1/r potentials. The methods and techniques used in the two research areas could not be more different, however. While the motions of planetary bodies is governed by -in general - nonlinear ODE's with often complicated singularity structures, atomic and molecular systems are described by a linear PDE - Schrödinger's equation - and are solved by spectral methods, Green function expansions or complex rotation techniques etc.

Recent advances in semiclassical techniques as well as steady experimental progress in short pulse laser and detector technology makes it necessary to consider the classical dynamics of charged particles in more detail. These efforts greatly benefit from techniques developed in nonlinear systems theory in general and in the context of gravitational few-body problems in particular. The aim of this workshop is to bring the two communities together and to discuss the state of the art

abstract: An international conference "New Frontiers in Complex Networks: A Statphys24 Satellite Meeting" to be held in Seoul, Korea, during July 12-16, 2010, will bring researchers from diverse disciplines to discuss the most up-to-date developments in the interdisciplinary field.

abstract: This two-week-long school will provide an interactive experience with hands-on research involving tabletop experiments with real-time computer data acquisition and associated computational modeling. This school is mainly aimed at providing hands-on tools in Complexity Science to Africans.

abstract: This conference is sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures.