Organizers of this minisymposium are
Bifurcation theory and dynamical systems tools have been very successful in the last decades in explaining pattern formation and self-organizing phenomena in various real-life applications, in particular wave phenomena in fluid dynamics, geophysics, and biology. The minisymposium aims to bring together leading experts and young researchers to highlight recent developments and identify future research directions in the field. On the one hand, we address mathematical results on the existence of more complicated structures such as spiral waves and pattern interfaces. On the other hand, we also discuss which influence additional physical effects have compared to classically studied systems, such as vorticity in fluid dynamics.