From Sand to Shrimps: In Honor of Professor Jason A. C. Gallas
This Focus Issue is a tribute to Jason A. C. Gallas and his outstanding career as a scientist. Gallas coined the term “shrimps” to name ubiquitous structures he found in parameter space, and which are now known to exist in many nonlinear systems. His work impacted several fields, ranging from climate and geophysics to quantum optics and medicine. The contributions to the issue will include both the theoretical topics Gallas worked on, as well as the different applied fields he approached during his scientific career: optics and quantum optics, granular dynamics, polynomials and periodic orbits, chaotic attractors, time series analysis, electronic circuits, chemical oscillations, cancer models, complex networks, bifurcation theory, cellular automata, coupled maps, Lyapunov exponent, synchronization, routes to chaos, geometric properties of orbits in parameter spaces, nonlinear systems in geophysics and climate, and stochastic modelling.
Photo provided by Jonathan Kollmer.
Guest Editors: Marcus W. Beims, Thorsten Pöschel, and Pedro G. Lind
