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							    INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS                                                                                         CALL FOR PAPERS
                                                    Department of Mathematics
Lisa Fauci, New Orleans, USA                        University of Texas at Arlington                     PROGRAM
                                                    Arlington, Texas 76019-0408, USA                     There will be plenary invited lectures, special
Carlangelo Liverani, Rome, Italy                                                                         sessions (30-minute talks), contributed sessions
                                                                                                         (20-minute talk/s) and poster sessions.
Anatoly Neishtadt, Moscow, Russia

Lassi Päivärinta, Helsinki, Finland                                                                      TOPICS
                                                                                                         Analysis, applied analysis, differential
George Papanicolaou, Stanford, USA                                                                       equations and dynamical systems, in the
                                                                                                         broadest sense. Applications to real-world
Jean-Claude Saut, Orsay, France                 Seventh AIMS International Conference on                 problems, including chemical, engineering,
                                                                                                         physical, and life sciences, in the forms of
Walter Strauss, Providence, USA                                                                          mathematical modeling and computations.
                                                      Dynamical Systems,
Hans Weinberger, Minneapolis, USA                                                                                If you are interested in organizing a
                                                      Differential Equations                                      special session for the conference,
Sijue Wu, Ann, Arbor, USA
(The invited speakers are all confirmed.)               and Applications                                          please contact: Dr. Shouchuan Hu
                                                                                                                  (shu@missouristate.edu).
       SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
                                                                         2008
                                                  Sunday, May 18--Wednesday, May 21                      PROCEEDINGS
Shouchuan Hu (Chair) shu@missouristate.edu
                                                                                                         The proceedings will be published as a
Jerry Bona           Alberto Bressan
Adrian Constantin    Amadeu Delshams             On campus of University of Texas at Arlington           supplement volume of the international journal
Hiroshi Matano       Alain Miranville           10 miles from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport    Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems
Wei-Ming Ni          N.S. Papageorgiou                     20 miles away from Dallas, Texas              (http://aimsciences.org). All will be carefully
Jianzhong Su         Jianping Zhu                                                                        refereed.
Conference Coordinator:                                 CONFERENCE WEB SITE
Xin Lu; lux@uncw.edu.                                                                                    FUNDING
                                                           http://www.uta.edu/math/aims2008              A proposal will be submitted to NSF for funds
      ORGANIZING COMMITTEE                                                  and                          to partially support some graduate students and
                                                                    http://aimsciences.org               young researchers for travel within the US.
Jianzhong Su (Chair; aims2008@uta.edu)                                                                   Further information will be posted in the
Jianping Zhu (Co-chair) Tuncay Aktosun
                                                 For more detailed and regularly updated
                                                                                                         conference website when it becomes available.
Gaik Ambartsoumian       Alain Bensoussan         information (such as travel, hotels, abstract,
Hristo V. Kojouharov     Cecelia Levings          proceedings, schedules); and
                                                 Register and submit abstract online                              REGISTRATION FEES
Yue Liu      Peter Moore       Hua Shan
                                                                                                        Regular: $220; Student: $95 before February 29, 2008
                  SPONSORS                                       DEADLINES
                                                                                                        Regular: $280; Student: $145 after February 29, 2008
 American Institute of Mathematical Sciences   Travel Grants:              January 30, 2008
 University of Texas at Arlington              Abstract:                   February 29, 2008
                                                Pre-registration:           February 29, 2008