Extended Abstracts Spring 2016

Foreword.- On Degenerate Cycles in Planar Filippov Systems.- Sliding Dynamics on Codimension-2Discontinuity Surfaces.- Asynchronous Networks.- Regularization by External Variables.- Characterizing Tipping in a Stochastic Reduced Stommel-Type Model in Higher-Dimensions.- Global Bifurcations in a Class of Discontinuous Piecewise Linear Systems.- Single-Impact Orbits near Grazing Periodic Orbits for an Impact Oscillator.- A Choice between Smooth and Nonsmooth Models.- Sliding Mode Control of Heterogeneous Systems.- Limit Cycle Bifurcation from a Persistent Center at Innity in 3D Piecewise Linear Systems with Two Zones.- Alternating Smooth and Nonsmooth Bifurcations in a Discontinuous Linear-Power Map.- Extending Slow Manifolds Near a Degenerate Transcritical Intersection in Three Dimensions.- Less is More I: a Pessimistic View of Piecewise Smooth Bifurcation Theory.- Less is More II: An Optimistic view of Piecewise Smooth Bifurcation Theory.- On Semi-Local Structural Stability of FilippovSystems.- Nonlinear Estimation of Synaptic Conductances Via Piecewise Linear Systems.- Integral Curves of a Vector Field with a Fractal Discontinuity.- Why Nonsmooth?.- An Update on That Singularity.- Sensor Effects in Sliding Mode Control of Power Conversion Cells.- Variational Time Stepping for NonsmoothAnalytical System Dynamics.- The chaotic behavior of piecewise smooth dynamical systems on torus and sphere.- Non-Smooth Hopf-Type and Grazing Bifurcations Arising from Impact/Friction Contact Events.- Number of Limit Cycles for some Non-Generic Classes of Piecewise Linear Differential Systems.- An Equivalent Formulation of the Averaged Functions Via Bell Polynomials.- Smoothing a Piecewise-Smooth: An Example from Plankton Population Dynamics.- A Note on