Solitons in 1+1 and 2+1 dimensions DS, KP and all that A Conference in honor of the 70th birthdays of Marco Boiti and Flora Pempinelli September 13-14, 2011, Università del Salento, Piazzetta Tancredi 7, Lecce Boiti and Pempinelli’s work has been influential for the broad scientific community devoted to the study of nonlinear PDEs. Together with their collaborators, Boiti and Pempinelli pionered the area of multidimensional soliton solutions by establishing foundational results. The conference is aimed at bringing together researchers from areas covered by Marco and Flora’s scientific activity, and at highlighting their contrbutions to the study of NPDEs. Speakers include: F. Calogero (Rome) G. Marmo (Naples) R. Conte (Cachan) V. Novokshenov (Ufa) V. Gerdjikov (Sofia) A.Pogrebkov (Moscow) F. Magri (Milan) P. Santini (Rome) S. Manakov (Moscow) A. Shabat (Moscow) Organizers: M. Beccaria, B.G. Konopelchenko, G. Landolfi, L. Martina