Southwest Regional Workshop on New Directions in Dynamical Systems

会议旨在为动力系统和边缘学科的专家提供一个论坛，以满足，交流思想和展示他们的研究。由于与其他学科的联系，动力系统领域正变得越来越重要。其中一些联系是在过去发展起来的，并且不断有新的应用被发现。传统上，动力学与分析、几何、数论、微分方程有关。最近的应用在分子生物学、种群动力学、通信理论和经济科学中。一些例子包括最近建立的和仍然新兴的影响方向，如非线性，混沌，复杂性，信息流，互联网和自相似数据流量。会议延续了西南动力会议的传统，这将是第四届西南动力研讨会。前三次会议分别在奥斯汀（德克萨斯大学，1994年）、图森（亚利桑那大学，1996年）和丹顿（北德克萨斯大学，1997年）举行。会议将于2000年11月17日至19日在南加州大学主校区举行。将有几次1小时的全体会谈和更多的技术性会谈，每次30分钟。大多数参与者将来自墨西哥西南部和北部，并将包括相当数量的动力学和邻近科学领域的博士后和研究生。

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 importancebecause of the connections to other disciplines. Some of these connectionshave been developed over the past, and there are new applications that areconstantly found. Traditionally Dynamics has been related toAnalysis, 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 recentlyestablished 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 meetingsof which it will be the fourth Southwest Dynamics Workshop.The previous three conferences took place inAustin (U. of Texas, 1994), Tucson (U. of Arizona, 1996) andDenton (U. of North Texas, 1997) respectively. The meeting will takeplace on the main campus of the University of Southern Californiaon 17--19 November 2000. There will be several 1 hour plenary talksand 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 scientificareas.