This volume contains extended abstracts outlining selected talks and other selected
presentations given by participants throughout the Intensive Research Program on Advances in
Nonsmooth Dynamics 2016 held at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) in Barcelona from
February 1st to April 29th 2016. They include brief research articles reporting new results
descriptions of preliminary work or open problems and outlines of prominent discussion
sessions. The articles are all the result of direct collaborations initiated during the
research program. The topic is the theory and applications of Nonsmooth Dynamics. This includes
systems involving elements of: impacting switching on off control hybrid discrete-continuous
dynamics jumps in physical properties and many others. Applications include: electronics
climate modeling life sciences mechanics ecology and more. Numerous new results are
reported concerning the dimensionality and robustness of nonsmooth models shadowing variables
numbers of limit cycles discontinuity-induced bifurcations and chaos determinacy-breaking
stability criteria and the classification of attractors and other singularities. This material
offers a variety of new exciting problems to mathematicians but also a diverse range of new
tools and insights for scientists and engineers making use of mathematical modeling and
analysis. The book is intended for established researchers as well as for PhD and postdoctoral
students who want to learn more about the latest advances in these highly active areas of
research.
