Scientific coordinators:
Rainer Klages, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Guenter Radons, TU Chemnitz, Germany; and Igor M. Sokolov, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany.

Scope of this conference:

Anomalous transport phenomena such as sub- and superdiffusion, non-Gaussian probability distributions, aging and dynamical localization form a rapidly growing research area within nonequilibrium statistical physics. Understanding these processes demands for establishing new cross-links between non-Markovian microscopic correlations and unusual statistical properties on macroscopic scales. This requires to combine methods from dynamical systems theory, stochastic processes and disordered systems. The seminar will provide a unique opportunity to learn about topics ranging from mathematical foundations of anomalous dynamics to the most recent experimental results in this field. It attempts to initiate new cross-disciplinary collaborations between scientists from the above research areas and to foster fruitful interactions between theorists and experimentalists working on anomalous transport.

Scientific key topics:

Applications: Experimental results for anomalous transport under nonequilibrium conditions such as anomalous dispersion in flows, transport in porous media, aging in glassy systems, anomalous diffusion of biological cells and in cell membranes, surface diffusion, anomalous distributions in granular media and in plasma physics

Theoretical methods and models: nonhyperbolic dynamics, intermittent deterministic transport, disordered dynamical systems, Levy walks, Levy flights, random walks in random environments, dynamical phase transitions, classical dynamical localization, thermodynamic formalism, continuous time random walks, fractional calculus

Confirmed invited speakers:

R.Artuso (Como), E.Barkai (Bar-Ilan), C.Beck (London), A.V.Chechkin (Kharkov), D.Del-Castillo-Negrete (Oak Ridge), P.Dieterich (Dresden), T.Geisel (Goettingen), R.Gorenflo (Berlin), R.Hilfer (Stuttgart), J.Kaerger (Leipzig), R.Kimmich (Ulm), J.Klafter (Tel Aviv), W.Kob (Montpellier), A.Kusumi (Kyoto), E.Lutz (Ulm), R.Metzler (Copenhagen), M.J.Saxton (Davis), M.Shlesinger (Arlington), S.Tasaki (Tokio), G.Vogl (Vienna), A.Vulpiani (Rome), S.Yuste (Badajoz)

The conference "Views on ODEs" (VODE2006) will celebrate the 65th birthday of Professors Arrigo Cellina and James A. Yorke and aims to bring together those enrolled in research activities related with ordinary differential equations, differential inclusions and their applications.

Main Topics:
Dynamical systems; Bifurcations; Invariant measures; Chaotic attractors; Prevalence; Population dynamics; Markov operators; Semigroups; Viscosity solutions; Hamilton-Jacobi equations; Hyperbolic systems; Optimal control and differential inclusions; Variational and topological methods.

Vasile Staicu - Chairman of the Organizing Committee
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We have the following confirmed invited speakers

    Zvi Artstein - Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
    Jean-Pierre Aubin - CREA - Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
    Stefano Bianchini - SISSA-ISAS, Trieste, Italy
    Alberto Bressan - The Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, USA
    Constantin Corduneanu - The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
    Francesco S. De Blasi - Universite degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
    Helene Frankowska - CREA - Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
    Andrzej Lasota - University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
    Jean Mawhin - Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
    Stefan Mirica - University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
    Josef Myjak - Universite degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
    Boris S. Mordukhovich - Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
    Rafael Ortega - University of Granada, Granada, Spain
    Mitsuharu Otani -Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
    Biagio Ricceri - University of Catania, Catania, Italy
    Nikolaos Papageorgiou - National Technical University of Athens , Greece
    Giulio Pianigiani - University of Florence, Florence, Italy

The conference is devoted to computational aspects of dynamics and topology. The themes of the conference include, but are not limited to:

    classical numerical methods for dynamical ODEs and PDEs,
    algorithms for rigorous numerics of dynamical systems,
    topological methods of dynamical systems as tools in developing numerical algorithms,
    numerical algorithms for topological invariants,
    KAM theory and rigorous numerics,
    variational methods,
    applications to celestial mechanics,
    numerical experiments in dynamics.

A conference on experimental nonlinear dynamics, will take place at the National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, on May 29 - June 1, 2006. The conference is sponsored by the US Office of Naval Research. Members of the worldwide scientific, medical and engineering communities interested in recent developments and techniques of experimental nonlinear dynamics are invited to attend the conference and to contribute to its technical sessions and workshops.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Stefano Boccaletti, Bruce Gluckman, Celso Grebogi, Juergen Kurths, Dr. Elbert E. N. Macau, Louis M. Pecora