BIOND LAB

The International Conference Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics (PNLD 2016) was held between 25 and 29 July, 2016 at the Humboldt University, Berlin. PNLD 2016 continued the tradition of discussing and disseminating cutting-edge research in the field of nonlinear dynamics and was formally a satellite meeting to the 26th International Conference on Statistical Physics (STATPHYS26) of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) that was held in Lyon, France during July 18-22, 2016. Like the earlier meetings, PNLD 2004 (Chennai), PNLD 2007 (Trieste), PNLD 2010 (Bangalore), and PNLD 2013 (Hyderabad) whose proceedings were also published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, the articles in this volume are a record of PNLD 2016. To mark the fact that this was the fifth conference in the series, we wrote to a number of the invited speakers at this as well as earlier PNLD conferences and requested them to share their own perspectives on how they see the field of nonlinear dynamics or more generally, nonlinear science evolving. What are the interesting questions at the present time? We also suggested that these “can be as informal as you like, with or without references, and with or without a signature, and as long or as short as you want.” Happily, several colleagues responded, and these perspectives are presented below.