Conference on

Nonlinear Science and Complexity

The Call-for-Paper can be printed via NSC2006A.pdf, NSC2006B.pdf. Authors will have the option of having their full-length papers considered for publication in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Elsevier), http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10075704.  The format of manuscripts for this conference should refer to GuideForAuthors.

Conference Organizers:

Professor Liming Dai

Industrial Systems Engineering

University of Regina

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

S4S 0A2

Tel: (306)585-4498

Fax: (306)585-4855

Email: Liming.Dai@uregina.ca

Submission and Review Schedule

• March 15, 2006:                    Full Manuscript Due.
• April 15, 2006:                       Notification of Acceptance.
• May 15, 2006:                        Submission of Final Paper.

For more detailed information, please contact aluo@siue.edu.

      Manuscript submission

         https://150.135.155.193/nsc06/

Registration and Fees Information

The deadline for registration: May 1, 2006

The authors and participants

• The regular registration before May 1, 2006:                            US$400
• The late registration after May 1, 2006:                                    US$500

Spouse fees (Lunches and Tours):

• The regular registration before May 1, 2006:                           US$200
• The later registration after May 1, 2006:                                  US$300

Cancellation should be completed before June 30, 2006, only 50% registration fees will be refunded.  For the registration and tour issues, please contact Liming.Dai@uregina.ca.

Tour Programs

The conference will arrange two tours, including the Forbidden City and the Great Wall. The spouse shopping activities are available.

 Forbidden City, Beijing

The Forbidden City (called Gu Gong in Chinese) was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Forbidden City is to the north of Tiananmen Square. Rectangular in shape, it is the world's largest palace complex and covers 74 hectares. Surrounded by a six meter deep moat and a ten meter high wall are 9,999 buildings. The wall has a gate on each side. Opposite the Tiananmen Gate, to the north is the Gate of Devine Might (Shenwumen), which faces Jingshan Park. The distance between these two gates is 960 meters, while the distance between the gates in the east and west walls is 750 meters. There are unique and delicately structured towers on each of the four corners of the curtain wall. These afford views over both the palace and the city outside. The Forbidden City is divided into two parts. The southern section, or the Outer Court was where the emperor exercised his supreme power over the nation. The northern section, or the Inner Court was where he lived with his royal family. Until 1924 when the last emperor of China was driven from the Inner Court, fourteen emperors of the Ming dynasty and ten emperors of the Qing dynasty had reigned here. Having been the imperial palace for some five centuries, it houses numerous rare treasures and curiosities.

Great Wall, China

Construction of the Great Wall started in the 7th century B.C. The vassal states under the Chou Dynasty in the northern parts of the country each built their own walls for defense purposes. After the state of Chin unified China in 221 B.C., it joined the walls to hold off the invaders from the Tsongnoo tribes in the north and extended them to more than 10,000 li or 5,000 kilometers. This is the origin of the name of the 10,000-li Great Wall. The Great Wall was renovated from time to time after the Chin Dynasty. A major renovation started with the founding of the Ming Dynasty in 1368, and took 200 years to complete. The wall we see today is almost exactly the result of this effort. With a total length of over 6,000 kilometers, it extends to the Jiayu Pass in Gansu Province in the west and to the mouth of the Yalu. River in Liaoning Province in the east.

Chinese Calligraphy