About Equadiff

Under the name “equadiff” a number of important conferences on differential equations have been organized in Western Europe during the last decades. The first one took place in Marseille (1970), followed by conferences in Brussels/Louvain-la-neuve (1973), Firenze (1978), Würzburg (1982), Xanthi (1987), Barcelona (1991), Lisboa (1995) and Berlin (1999). Under the same name conferences on differential equations have been organized every 4 years alternating in Prague, Bratislava and Brno, of which the 10th has been organized in Prague in 2001. Together with the organizers of the equadiff-meetings in the Czech and Slovak republics it has been agreed that the two organizations would work together in order to have bi-annual equadiff-meetings organized in an alternating way in respectively Prague, Bratislava or Brno and in other cities of Europe.

At the very succesful meeting of Berlin it has been proposed to organize the next meeting in Belgium in 2003. In the meantime a Belgian-Dutch organizing committee has been created that has decided to organize the next conference in Hasselt in the period July 22-26

Equadiff has clearly developed into "the" European platform for international exchange of ideas on all mathematical aspects of differential equations, ranging from fundamental concepts to applications. The conference deals with ODE’s as well as PDE’s, delay equations, stochastic differential equations,...

Attention goes to related mathematical aspects of dynamical systems, applying methods of an analytic, geometric, ergodic or numerical nature. These methods play a crucial role in both the theoretical study and the applications.

For a detailed survey of the contents of the conference we refer to the list of mini-symposia and the list of plenary speakers.