Speakers

• Surface tension, John Bush, Dept. Mathematics, MIT, USA.

• Diffusion with traps: modeling stomatal patchiness in a leaf, Carmen Pimentel Cintra Prado, Inst. Physics, Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil

• An introduction to models and numerical methods for global weather forecasts I, Saulo Barros, Inst. Mathematics, Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil.

• Lectures on singular perturbation methods I, Alejandro Aceves, Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. New Mexico, USA.

• Domain decomposition and applications, Marcus Sarkis, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• The soft geometry of filaments, membranes and tethers, Greg Huber, Health Center, Univ. of Connecticut, USA.

• Fisher equation, origin of nonlinearities in ecological systems, and pattern formation, Nitant Kenkre, Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science, University of New Mexico, USA.

• Structural similarities in the parameter space of maps and flows: the Hénon map and the loss-modulated CO $_2$ laser, Jason Gallas, Physics Depart., University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

• Nonlinearity and causality on the early stages of phase ordering, Gastão Krein, Inst. Theoretical Physics, State Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil

• Patterns and localized structures in population dynamics, Marcel Clerc, Dept. Physics, Universidad de Chile, Chile.

• New nonlinear water wave models over highly variable topographies, André Nachbin, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Some traits of computer algebra systems, Michael Wester, Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. New Mexico, USA

• Lectures on singular perturbation methods. Theory and Applications II, Alejandro Aceves, Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. New Mexico, USA.

• An introduction to models and numerical methods for global weather forecasts II, Saulo Barros, Inst. Mathematics, Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil.

• Velocity logarithmic profiles for flows over steep hills I, Átila Pantaleão Silva Freirem, Laboratory of Turbulence Mechanics, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• On spatio-temporal order in class 4 automata, Jason Gallas, Physics Dept., Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

• Multivortices of the complex sine-Gordon and a nonlocal Gross-Pitaevskii equation on the plane, Valery Shchesnovich, Dept. Physics, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil

• Stabilization of nonlinear waves, Roberto André Kraenkel, Inst. Theoretical Physics, State Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil

• Variations on a theme by Hofstadter: complex feedback, functioning designs and informatic turbulence emerging from nested recursion, Greg Huber, Health Center, Univ. of Connecticut, USA.

• Animal diffusion in the theory of the spread of epidemics, Nitant Kenkre, Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science, University of New Mexico, USA

• Velocity logarithmic profiles for flows over steep hills II, Átila Pantaleão Silva Freire, Laboratory of Turbulence Mechanics, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• Walking on water, John Bush, Dept. Mathematics, MIT, USA.