Contains the proceedings of the 16th Carolina Dynamics Symposium, held in April 2018. The papers cover various topics in dynamics and randomness, including complex dynamics, ergodic theory, topological dynamics, celestial mechanics, symbolic dynamics, computational topology, random processes, and regular languages.

E. Akin and J. Wiseman, Chain recurrence and strong chain recurrence on uniform spacesL. S. Storch and S. L. Day, Towards the prediction of critical transitions in spatially extended populations with cubical homologyJ. Furno and L. Koss, Relating singularly perturbed rational maps to families of entire mapsJ. Hawkins, Stability of Cantor Julia sets in the space of iterated elliptic functionsK. McGoff, Pressure and escape rates for random subshifts of finite typeN. Ormes and R. Pavlov, On the complexity function for sequences which are not uniformly recurrentA. J. Parker, K. B. Yancey, and M. P. Yancey, Definitions and properties of entropy and distance for regular languagesA. Parrish and J. Rosenblatt, Good and bad functions for bad processesR. L. Rossetti, Isomorphisms of cubic rational maps that preserve an infinite measureM. Schmoll, Orbit classification and asymptotic constants for $d$-symmetric coversK. Stubbs and S. R. Kaplan, On the collision manifold of coorbital moonsM. Taylor, Multivariate random fields and their zero sets.