MEDYFINOL is a traditional and regular meeting of the statistical and nonlinear physics community in Latin-America. The XV Conference follows a series of meetings that took place in La Serena, Chile (2004); Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay (2002); Córdoba, Argentina (1999); Canela, Brazil (1997); Tucumán, Argentina (1996); San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina (1995); Montevideo, Uruguay (1994); Mar del Plata, Argentina (1993); Mar del Plata, Argentina (1991); Santiago de Chile, Chile (1990); Puerto Iguazú, Argentina (1989); Mar del Plata, Argentina (1988); Lujan, Argentina (1987), and Lujan, Argentina (1986).  

Statistical and nonlinear physics are multidisciplinary research areas with many applications in biology, economy, sociology, engineering sciences, chemistry, etc. The purposes of the MEDYFINOL meetings are to keep updated the scientific community on the new developments and tendencies in the statistics and nonlinear fields, to incentive collaborative international science programs, and to identify and discuss the most relevant advances in the area.

The meeting success and the accomplishment of its objectives are shown by the important list of participants and their presentations quality. For example the XIII edition, which took place in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay (2002), was attended by more than 150 participants from 15 countries: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela; and the last edition that takes place in La Serena, Chile (2004), was attended by more than 140 scientists from 18 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany,  Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The corresponding proceedings were published as Physica A special issues (Volume 327, pages 1 – 200, September 1st,  2003 and; Volume 356,  pages 1 – 206, October 1st 2005), published by Elsevier.


MEDYFINOL'06 will provide the opportunity to interchange ideas about important developments and applications on the field, contributing in this form to the possible nucleation of new inter-institutional collaborating groups and encouraging the development of scientific collaborations. Emphasis will be set on Latin-America young scientists’ participation.