The 5th IFAC Symposium on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications - FDA'12 will be held at Hohai University, Nanjing, China, from 14-17 May 2012. As you may know, this series of conferences is the largest of its kind. Following the previous successful conferences, 2004 in France, 2006 in Portugal, 2008 Turkey, and 2010 in Spain.

Up to 5th January 2012, the organization committee of the Fifth IFAC Symposium on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications (FDA12) has received 206 abstracts. Thanks for the contributions from our colleagues around the world!

Because the original deadline of the abstract submission happens to be in the Christmas and New Year holidays, many colleagues have recently suggested to further extend the deadline. And the organization committee has thus decided to an extension of the abstract submission deadline to January 31, 2012. Please help inform our FDA colleagues, who have yet to submit his/her abstract, do itas early as possible.

The FDA12 will be held from 14-17 May 2012 in Nanjing. For details please visit http://em.hhu.edu.cn/fda12