NEEDS 2015

• Integrable systems (including quantum and discrete) and applications
• Dynamical systems: Hamiltonian systems and dynamics in the complex domain
• Nonlinear waves, soliton equations and applications
• Nonlinear ODEs including Painleve' equations and isomonodromic deformations
• Symmetries and perturbative methods in the classification of integrable PDEs
• Infinite dimensional Lie algebras and integrable systems
• Orthogonal polynomials, random matrix theory

1. Title: From linear to nonlinear ODEs: Darboux transformations and exceptional orthogonal polynomials.
   Chair: D. Gomez Ullate, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
   Review lecture: D. Gomez Ullate.
   Speakers: Y. Grandati (University of Lorraine, France), A. Kuijlaars (University of Leuven, Belgium), R. Milson (Dalhousie University, Canada), and S. Tsujimoto (University of Kyoto, Japan).


2. Title: Representation Theory, Special Functions and Painlevé equations.
   Chairs: N. Joshi, University of Sydney, Australia and M. Mazzocco, Loughborough University, UK
   Review lecture: N. Joshi.
   Speakers: O. Lisovy (University of Tours, France), M. Mazzocco, and Y. Yamada (University of Kobe, Japan).


3. Title: Inverse scattering transform and Riemann-Hilbert problems.
   Chair: G. Biondini, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
   Review lecture: G. Biondini.
   Speakers: T. Aktosun (University of Texas at Arlington), P. Miller (University of Michigan, USA), and P.A. Perry (University of Kentucky, USA).


4. Title: Rogue waves in integrable and non-integrable models.
   Chair: M. Onorato, University of Torino, Italy and S. Lombardo, Northumbria University, UK.
   Review lecture: A. Degasperis, University La Sapienza, Italy.
   Speakers: F. Baronio (University of Brescia, Italy), A. Chabchoub (University of Swinburne, Australia), D. Georgieva (University of Sofia, Bulgaria), and T. Horikis (University of Ioannina, Greece).

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