The mission of the Journal of Nonlinear Science is to publish papers that augment the fundamental ways we describe, model, and predict nonlinear phenomena. Papers should make an original contribution to at least one technical area and should in addition illuminate issues beyond that area's boundaries. Even excellent papers in a narrow field of interest are not appropriate for the journal. Papers can be oriented toward theory, experimentation, algorithms, numerical simulations, or applications as long as the work is creative and sound. Excessively theoretical work in which the application to natural phenomena is not apparent (at least through similar techniques) or in which the development of fundamental methodologies is not present is probably not appropriate. In turn, papers oriented toward experimentation, numerical simulations, or applications must not simply report results without an indication of what a theoretical explanation might be.

All papers should be submitted in English and must meet common standards of usage and grammar. In addition, because ours is a multidisciplinary subject, at minimum the introduction to the paper should be readable to a broad range of scientists and not only to specialists in the subject area. The scientific importance of the paper and its conclusions should be made clear in the introduction-this means that not only should the problem you study be presented, but its historical background, its relevance to science and technology, the specific phenomena it can be used to describe or investigate, and the outstanding open issues related to it should be explained. Failure to achieve this could disqualify the paper.

Editors-in-Chief
Anthony Bloch
Department of Mathematics
University of Michigan
USA

Alain Goriely
Mathematics Institute
University of Oxford
UK
Paul K. Newton
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and 
Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
USA
Senior Editors
Irene Fonseca
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
George Haller
Institute of Mechanical Systems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Darryl Holm
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, UK
Robert Kohn
Courant Institute, New York University, USA
Philip K. Maini
Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, UK
Tudor Ratiu
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Clancy Rowley
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, USA
Editorial Board
Philipp Altrock, Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
Andrea Bertozzi, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Lydia Bieri, Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA
Sue Ann Campbell, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada
Alan R. Champneys, Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK
Rustum Choksi, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Canada
Peter Constantin, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, USA
Jorge Cortés, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA
Pierre Degond, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK
Amadeu Delshams, Departament de Matematica Aplicada I, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Charles Doering, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA
Eliot Fried, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
Trachette Jackson, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA
Oliver Junge, Mathematics Center, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Eva Kanso, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA
Melvin Leok, Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego, USA
Changpin Li, Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, China
Andrew Majda, Courant Insitute, New York University, USA
Peter Miller, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA
Jeff Moehlis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Adilson Motter, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, USA
David Nicholls, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Felix Otto, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany
Mary Pugh, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Canada
Ami Radunskaya, Department of Mathematics, Pomona College, USA
Ram Ramaswamy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Arnd Scheel, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, USA
Mary Silber, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, USA
Dejan Slepcev, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Leslie Smith, Department of Mathematics and Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Edriss Titi, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine, USA
Ferdinand Verhulst, Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Michael Ward, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Canada
Aresh Yavari, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Goergia Institute of Technology, USA
Previous Editors
Thanasis Fokas
Giovanni Gallavotti
Philip J Holmes
Eugeni A. Kuznetsov
Jerry Marsden
Yasuji Sawada
Miki Wadati
Stephen R. Wiggins
Vladimir Zakharov