The eighteenth International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications will be held in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) from July 23 to 27, 2011. The conference is organized by the Department of Mathematics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), under the auspices of the International Society of Difference Equations (ISDE).

Scientific Committee
Lluís Alsedà (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Jim Cushing (University of Arizona, USA)
Sergiy Kolyada (National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine)
Alberto Pinto (Universidade de Porto and International Centre for Mathematics, Portugal)
Robert Sacker (University of Southern California, USA)
André Vanderbauwhede (Gant University, Belgium)


Main Speakers
Mário Bessa (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Robert Devaney (Boston University, USA)
João Lopes Dias (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Tomasz Downarowicz (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
Saber Elaydi (Trinity University, USA)
Armengol Gasull (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Michal Misiurewicz (IUPUI, USA)
Rafael Ortega (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Christian Pötzsche (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Enrique Pujals (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
David Rand (University of Warwick, UK)
Ana Rodrigues (KTH, Stockholm Sweden)
Lubomir Snoha (Matej Bel University, Slovakia)