SIDE is a series of biennial conferences devoted to the study of integrable difference equations and related topics: ordinary and partial difference equations, analytic difference equations, orthogonal polynomials and special functions, symmetries and reductions, difference geometry, integrable discrete systems on graphs, integrable dynamical mappings, discrete Painlevé equations, singularity confinement, algebraic entropy, complexity and growth of multivalued mapping, representations of affine Weyl groups, quantum mappings and quantum field theory on the space-time lattice, ...

The series is overseen by a steering committee, whose present members are

• Frank Nijhoff, Chairman, Univ. of Leeds, frank.nijhoff@gmail.com
• Alexander Bobenko, Technische Univ. Berlin, bobenko@math.tu-berlin.de
• Basil Grammaticos, Univ. Paris VII, grammaticos@univ-paris-diderot.fr
• Jarmo Hietarinta, Univ. of Turku, hietarin@utu.fi (webmaster)
• Nalini Joshi, Univ. of Sydney, nalini@maths.usyd.edu.au
• Decio Levi, Univ. of Rome III, levi@roma3.infn.it
• Vassilis Papageorgiou, Univ. of Patras, vassilis@math.upatras.gr
• Junkichi Satsuma, Aoyama University  satsuma@gem.aoyama.ac.jp
• Yuri Suris, Technishe Univ. München, suris@math.tu-berlin.de
  
• Claude Viallet, CNRS, Univ. Paris VI, viallet@lpthe.jussieu.fr
• Pavel Winternitz, CRM. Univ. de Montreal, wintern@crm.umontreal.ca

Professor Martin David Kruskal (Rutgers University) has sadly passed away on December 26, 2006. We honour his commitment and support to the SIDE steering committee over the past ten years from its inception, as well as his many deep contributions to the field of discrete integrable systems.

If you would like to organize one of the future conference, please contact the chaiman at: frank.nijhoff@gmail.com