January 8-11, 2009
Double Tree Hotel
San Diego, CA

Dynamics Days is organized to provide an interface for researchers from diverse scientific disciplines but with common interests in nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and complex systems. This meeting has become internationally known for facilitating researchers to share their most recent results in understanding, modeling, and controlling nonlinear dynamical systems. Sessions will cover a broad range of topics, including (but not limited to) combustion and chemical systems; business, economics, and manufacturing; plasma physics and complex flows; computing and data mining; materials science and mechanics; and biology and ecology. All talks are intended for a general multidisciplinary audience and presented non-concurrently (no parallel sessions).

The University of California, San Diego is this year's meeting host.

Local organizing committee members are: Ramon Huerta, Herbert Levine, Wouter-Jan Rappel and Michael Todd.

Invited speakers are:

• Steve Anlage (U Maryland)
• Adi Bulsara (Spawar SD)
• John Brady (CalTech)
• Rhonda Dzakpasu (Georgetown U)
• Lisa Fauci (Tulane U)
• Michelle Girvan (U Maryland)
• Alain Goriely (U Arizona)
• Jeff Hasty (UCSD)
• Eugene Izhikevich (Neurosciences Inst SD)
• Ann Karagozian (UCLA)
• Jim Langer (UCSB)
• Adilson Motter (Northwestern U)
• Jonathan Nichols (NRL)
• Alan Perelson (LANL)
• Metin Sitti (Carnegie Mellon U)
• Lawrie Virgin (Duke U)

The Organizing Committee invites abstracts for 20-minute contributed talks and posters. Deadlines for abstract submission are:

• 2008 November 14 for contributed talks
• 2008 December 7 for posters

Notification of abstract selection for oral presentations will be sent out by December 1.

A limited amount of travel support will be available for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.  Include your request for such support via the online registration form. Note that presenters of contributed talks and posters will be given highest priority for this support.

Other important conference dates are:

• Cut-off for meeting pre-registration - 2008 December 1
• Cut-off for hotel reservations - 2008 November 21

We encourage you to print out and post a copy of the meeting announcement flyer available at http://ddays2009.ucsd.edu/ddays09_flyer.pdf.

We look forward to seeing you in January.

Please send any additional questions via email to Christopher Smith at ddays2009@ctbp.ucsd.edu or phone (858) 534-8370.

Meeting Website: http://ddays2009.ucsd.edu