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SIDE-Symmetries and Integrability of Difference Equations

SIDE is a series of biennial conferences devoted to the study of integrable difference equations and related topics: ordinary and partial difference equations, analytic difference equations, orthogonal polynomials and special functions, symmetries and reductions, difference geometry, integrable discrete systems on graphs, integrable dynamical mappings, discrete Painlevé equations, singularity confinement, algebraic entropy, complexity and growth of multivalued mapping, representations of affine Weyl groups, quantum mappings and quantum field theory on the space-time lattice, ...
The series is overseen by a steering committee, whose present members are

Frank Nijhoff, Chairman, Univ. of Leeds, frank.nijhoff@gmail.com
Alexander Bobenko, Technische Univ. Berlin, bobenko@math.tu-berlin.de
Basil Grammaticos, Univ. Paris VII, grammati@paris7.jussieu.fr
Jarmo Hietarinta, Univ. of Turku, hietarin@utu.fi
Nalini Joshi, Univ. of Sydney, nalini@maths.usyd.edu.au
Decio Levi, Univ. of Rome III, levi@roma3.infn.it
Vassilis Papageorgiou, Univ. of Patras, vassilis@math.upatras.gr
Junkichi Satsuma, Aoyama University satsuma@gem.aoyama.ac.jp
Yuri Suris, Technishe Univ. München, suris@ma.tum.de
Claude Viallet, CNRS, Univ. Paris VI, viallet@lpthe.jussieu.fr
Pavel Winternitz, CRM. Univ. de Montreal, wintern@crm.umontreal.ca

Professor Martin David Kruskal (Rutgers University) has sadly passed away on December 26, 2006. We honour his commitment and support to the SIDE steering committee over the past ten years from its inception, as well as his many deep contributions to the field of discrete integrable systems.

If you would like to organize one of the future conference, please contact the chaiman at: frank.nijhoff@gmail.com Here is a list of past and planned conferences:

SIDE 1	Location: Esterel, Québec, Canada
	Time: May 22-29, 1994
	Organizers: D. Levi, L. Vinet and P. Winternitz
	Program:
	List of Participants:
	Proceedings: CRM Proc. and Lect. Notes, vol. 9, (AMS Publ., 1996)

SIDE 2	Location: Canterbury, Kent, UK
	Time: July 1-5, 1996
	Organizers: P. Clarkson and F. Nijhoff
	Program:
	List of Participants:
	Proceedings: LMS Lect. Note Series, vol. 255, (Cambridge U P, 1999)

SIDE 3	Location: Sabaudia, Italy
	Time: May 16-22, 1998
	Organizers: D. Levi and O. Ragnisco
	Program:
	List of Participants:
	Proceedings: CRM Proc. and Lect. Notes, vol. 25, (AMS Publ., 2000)

SIDE 4	Location: Tokyo, Japan
	Time: Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2000
	Organizers: J. Satsuma and T. Tokihiro
	Program
	List of Participants
	Proceedings: J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34 (7 Dec 2001) 10337-10774

SIDE 5	Location: Giens, France
	Time: June 21-26, 2002
	Organizers: C-M Viallet and J Hietarinta
	Proceedings: J. Nonlin. Math. Phys.: Vol. 10, Suppl. 2, December 2003

SIDE 6
	Location: Kallvik Conference Center, Helsinki, Finland
	Time: June 19-24, 2004
	Organizers: J Hietarinta and F Nijhoff
	Proceedings: J. Nonlin. Math. Phys., Vol. 12, Suppl. 2, December 2005
	Pictures from the conference.

SIDE 6.5
	Location: Munich, Germany
	Time: July 25-30, 2005
	What: Joint OPSFA/ISDE/SIDE meeting
	Conference web-page

SIDE 7	Location: Melbourne, Australia
	Time: July 10-14, 2006
	Organizers: J A G Roberts and W K Schief
	Proceedings: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., Vol 48, Nr 42, (19 Oct, 2007)
	Conference web-page

SIDE 8	Location: Hotel Mont-Gabriel, in Ste-Adèle, Québec, Canada
	Time: June 22-28, 2008
	Organizers:P Winternitz, D Levi and P J Olver
	Conference web-page

SIDE 8.5
	Location: In association with the INI-DIS program.
	Time: June 2009