Gianne Derks and David Lloyd are at the Lorentz Center associated with the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, for a conference this week (10-14 July) on “The future of singular perturbations“.  A link to the conference website is here. It is the aim of the workshop to bring together a core group of internationally renowned mathematicians who have, in recent years, been leading the development of the field of singular perturbations, with some also applying these new developments in the areas of neuroscience, pharmacology, pattern formation, ecology, and climate research.