This framework integrates and extends concepts and techniques from evolutionary game theory with a special emphasis on dynamical phenomena such as evolutionary cycles, evolution towards extinction, and the origin and divergence of new lineages by evolutionary branching. The last few years witnessed the invasion of adaptive dynamics approach to the study of adaptation. At present, the theory has been mainly developed for one-dimensional strategies and for monomorphic populations. Intense research concentrates on multiple-trait evolution, on coevolving multispecies communities, and on ecosystems with complex population dynamics including multiple attractors and chaos. A bifurcation theory of adaptive dynamics is currently being developed.
Adaptive dynamics is a fast developing area where European laboratories play a pivotal role.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together the leading European experts of adaptive dynamics in order to exchange new results, compare different approaches and developments, to identify the current state of the art, to indicate open problems for future research, and to investigate the possibilities for an extended international collaboration in adaptive dynamics. The scientific program of the workshop will include presentations and in-depth discussions . For maximum effectiveness, participants are strongly encouraged to send one or two reprints or preprints that are most relevant to the work they are going to present or discuss at the workshop. These papers will be distributed among the participants before the workshop so that everybody has the opportunity to familiarise himself with the background of the others. The workshop time will be allocated between presentations and discussions in approximately 50-50 per cent.