To mark the impactful, broad research career of Mark J. Ablowitz on the occasion of his 80th birthday, a Special Issue of the Journal of Nonlinear Waves titled New Directions in Nonlinear Waves and Integrable Systems is now accepting invited contributions drawn from invited participants to the June 4–6, 2025 meeting held in Boulder, CO, USA of the same name.  These contributions will contain original research on nonlinear waves and integrable systems. 

The deadline for paper submission is April 1, 2026.

The guest handling (associate) editors for this special issue are:

• Sarbarish Chakravarty, schakrav@uccs.edu, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
• Ziad Musslimani, zmuslimani@fsu.edu, Florida State University
• Justin Cole, jcole13@uccs.edu, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
• Sean Nixon, sean.nixon@colorado.edu, University of Colorado, Boulder