The XIXth edition of the NEEDS conference series will be held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, in Kolymvari, Chania (Crete, Greece), from July 8 to July 15, 2012. We are delighted that NEEDS 2012 will be hosted again in Crete, where the first edition took place in the Summer 1980, and thirteen years after the last time it was held there.

As the previous editions, the workshop will have an interdisciplinary character; it aims to bring together both experts and young researchers encouraging cross disciplinary interaction in the pleasant atmosphere of the Orthodox Academy of Crete.

The conference will focus on the following topics:

• Integrable systems (including quantum and discrete) and applications
• Dynamical systems: Hamiltonian systems and dynamics in the complex domain
• Nonlinear waves, soliton equations and applications
• Nonlinear ODEs including Painleve' equations and isomonodromic deformations
• Symmetries and perturbative methods in the classification of integrable PDEs
• Infinite dimensional Lie algebras and integrable systems
• Orthogonal polynomials, random matrix theory