This work, consisting of expository articles as well as research papers, highlights recent developments in nonlinear analysis and differential equations. The material is largely an outgrowth of autumn school courses and seminars held at the University of Lisbon and has been thoroughly refereed.

Several topics in ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations are the focus of key articles, including:

* periodic solutions of systems with p-Laplacian type operators (J. Mawhin)

* bifurcation in variational inequalities (K. Schmitt)

* a geometric approach to dynamical systems in the plane via twist theorems (R. Ortega)

* asymptotic behavior and periodic solutions for Navier--Stokes equations (E. Feireisl)

* mechanics on Riemannian manifolds (W. Oliva)

* techniques of lower and upper solutions for ODEs (C. De Coster and P. Habets)

A number of related subjects dealing with properties of solutions, e.g., bifurcations, symmetries, nonlinear oscillations, are treated in other articles.

This volume reflects rich and varied fields of research and will be a useful resource for mathematicians and graduate students in the ODE and PDE community.