The National Conferences on Nonlinear Systems & Dynamics provide a forum for bringing the various groups working in the area of Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics on a single platform for exchanging views and reporting research findings.

Study of nonlinear systems and dynamics has emerged internationally as a major area of interdisciplinary research over the last two decades. As a result, international conferences/symposia are regularly held in this and related areas, and national-level conferences are held in most advanced countries. In India there are a number of groups actively involved in research on nonlinear dynamics. Need was being felt for a forum where active researchers in this area can meet periodically --- to report new experiments and theoretical developments, to examine hypotheses to explain physical phenomena, and to discuss common problems faced by people working in this field. The NCNSDs are meant to serve this purpose.

The first National Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (NCNSD) was organized by the Centre for Theoretical Studies of I.I.T. Kharagpur from 28 to 30 December 2003. Since then the NCNSD has become an annual conference. The second NCNSD was organized by the Aligarh Muslim University on 24-26 February 2005, the third NCNSD was organized by the RIASM, University of Madras on 6-8 February 2006, and the fourth conference was held in the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad on 3-5 January 2008.

Broad areas covered by the conference:-

• Bifurcation Theory
• Integrable Systems and Solitons
• Classical Deterministic Chaos
• Nonlinear Phenomena in Engineering Sciences
• Nonlinear Phenomena in Medical and Biological Sciences
• Dynamics of Conservative Systems
• Hamiltonian and Quantum Chaos
• Nonlinear Optics
• Control of Chaos and Synchronization
• Coupled Map Lattice and Spatiotemporal Pattern Formation
• Fractal, Order, and Time-Series Analysis
• Turbulence
• Self-Organized Criticality
• Nonlinearity in MHD, Plasma and Astrophysics
• Time Series Analysis, and other Mathematical and Computational Approaches