The Lavin alpinists can find the photos of this year's hiking camp below and in the new slideshow page. Now let's go the easy way and fill the rest of this post with some selected imagery:

I'm late with almost everything, no time to write more than a bunch of lines right now. On the occasion of Prof. Celso Grebogi's birthday, a very nice conference was held in Aberdeen where almost everyone from the chaos and dynamical systems community was gathered.

I was given the great chance of attending as well and it was definitely worth the flight with KLM (they canceled the flight just when I was checking in). And Scottish food is far superior to British cuisine. Unfortunately, this is not true for the beer which gives you terrible headaches the next day. Or it's just the amount that matters? I'm always confusing those things... Anyway, in case some of the organizers stumble ...