2008 MIDWEST DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS CONFERENCE In Honor of Eric Bedford's 60th Birthday Friday, October 3 - Sunday, October 5 Indiana University, Bloomington Confirmed Speakers are: Jeffrey Diller (University of Notre Dame) Manfred Einsiedler (Ohio State University) John Hubbard (Cornell University) Mattias Jonsson (University of Michigan) Kyounghee Kim (Florida State University) Mikhael Lyubich (SUNY Stony Brook) Irene Peng (University of Chicago) Evelyn Sander (George Mason University) John Smillie (Cornell University) Amie Wilkinson (Northwestern University) Jeff Xia (Northwestern University) Todd Young (Ohio University) Registration will begin at 1:00 pm on Friday. There are three talks scheduled for Friday afternoon, with the first talk at 2:30. There will be six talks on Saturday, and three talks on Sunday, ending around noon. There will be a banquet in honor of Eric Bedford at 7:00 pm on Saturday at Le Petit Cafe. Please check the conference web page http://www.math.indiana.edu/programs/conferences_workshops/mdsc/ for further information, including suggested hotels. Conference participants are advised to reserve their hotel rooms soon, because it will be a busy weekend in Bloomington. There is no registration fee, but conference participants are asked to please register in advance at the conference web page. NSF funds will be available to reimburse hotel expenses and contribute toward travel expenses for a number of junior participants. Any communication about the conference should go to Chris Connell Marlies Gerber