Upcoming SD relevant conferences

2nd European Modeling and Simulation Symposiom, October 4th to 6th, 2006, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.i-m-cs.org/EMSS06

International Modeling and Simulation Multiconference Feb 8th to 10th 2007 Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.lsis.org/imsm07/

The 22nd European Conference on Operational Research EURO XXII, July 8th to 11th 2007, Prague
http://euro2007.vse.cz/?action=homepage

Winter Simulation Conference December 3rd to 6th 2006 Monterey, CA USA
http://www.wintersim.org/

The winner of Dana Meadows Award - 2006

In this year SD conference the paper from "Özge Karanfil" was announced as the winner of "Dana Meadows Award". This quality paper presents "A Dynamic Simulator for the Management of Disorders of the Body Water Metabolism". An innovative application for SD.
This selection indicates the expanding application of SD from being merely used in business and mangement to applications in Natural Sciences.
The full paper is available at: http://cgi.albany.edu/~sdsweb/sds2006.cgi?P418

2006 System Dynamics Conference - Nijmegen

The 2006 system dynamics conference was an interesting event with some very good presentations from SD practitioners from around the world. However I think still SD community is not communicating well with the other disciplines. Especially the presentation from Peter Vanderminden was intertesting. He brought up the discussion of "if SD is a field or a methodology?" and was clear that there was not an agreement on this issue between the audiences in the planery session.
I hope the SD practitioners and researchers can ellaborate on how communication of SD with other disciplines can be facilitated.