Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 1, Number 1 March 15, 2002 Today's editor: Angel Jorba Today's topics: Conference in Wilmington on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations Meeting in Maryland on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics Conference of The Society For Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences Marie Curie Fellowship at UAB Post-doctoral position available at FSU Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 8:1 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 2:1 Contents, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis 1:1 Contents, Nonlinearity 15:1 Contents, Nonlinearity 15:2 Contents, Journal of Nonlinear Science 12:1 Contents, Journal of Nonlinear Science 12:2 Submissions to nls-net must be addressed to: Comments and suggestions are also welcome. General information about nls-net can be found at: http://www.maia.ub.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nls-net/ This is a service created and maintained in collaboration with the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) http://www.aimsciences.org/ ------ Subject: Conference in Wilmington on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations From: "shouchuan hu" Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 15:47:34 -0500 (EST) The Fourth International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations May 24 --27, 2002 Wilmington (a seaside city), NC 28403, USA Plenary Speakers: Michael Ghil (USA) Antonio Giorgilli (Italy) Thomas Hou (USA) Hiroshi Matano (Japan) Masayasu Mimura (Japan) Wei-Ming Ni (USA) Hans Othmer (USA) C.V. Pao (USA) N.S. Papageorgiou (Greece) Paul Rabinowitz (USA) Marcelo Viana (Brazil) This conference is a continuation of the Atlanta meeting (2000) when there were close to 300 active participants from over 50 countries. The conference is intended to provide an important forum for mathematicians and scientists, worldwide, working in the above mentioned fields. In a relaxing environment, participants from all over the world report research developments, exchange ideas, and discuss the trends and prospects of future research. Coverage: Analysis, applied analysis, differential equations and dynamical systems, in the broadest sense. Applications to real-world problems, including chemical, physical, and life sciences, in the forms of mathematical modeling and computations. For more details, visit http://www.uncwil.edu/mathconf/ ------ Subject: Meeting in Maryland on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 16:01:16 -0600 Spring 2002 Meeting of the Maryland-Penn State Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics March 23-26 (Saturday-Tuesday) Department of Mathematics University of Maryland, College Park This conference is dedicated in part to honoring Joe Auslander, who after this spring will retire from the Maryland mathematics department -- but not from mathematics. The conference will have a focus in topological dynamics, although as always topics will range broadly over dynamics. For more details, visit http://www.math.umd.edu/~mmb/md02/ ------ Subject: Conference of The Society For Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:49:58 -0600 (CST) CALL FOR PAPERS 12th Annual International Conference The Society For Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences Portland, OR, USA August 1- 4, 2002 An invitation is extended to all interested scholars to submit abstracts reporting work involving chaos theory, fractals, nonlinear dynamics, complexity, and related principles. Submissions are solicited in research, theory, and application in any of the nonlinear dynamics concepts to phenomena encountered in psychology, life and social sciences, including economics, ecology, and organizational behavior. We also strongly encourage collections of individuals to propose symposia that combine individual presentations with group and roundtable discussion. For more details, visit http://www.societyforchaostheory.org ------ Subject: Marie Curie Fellowship at UAB From: Antonio Teruel Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:33:48 +0000 (WET) Dear Collegues, The Dynamical Systems Group (GSD) of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) invites applications for Marie Curie predoctoral fellowships within the area of Dynamical Systems. The Mathematics Department at UAB has a strong reputation in dynamical systems, and has a large group of people working in this area (about 12 members of staff. 8 postdoctorals, and many PhD students). Candidates must be nationals of a Member State of the EU (except Spain) or of an Associate State, or residing in the Community for at least five years. They must be 35 years old or younger at the time of appointment, and must pursue doctoral studies in a subject area close to the Training Site. The allowance will be of 1200 euros/month, before costs and taxes. Some travel costs are covered too. The duration of the fellowship is negotiable from 3 months to one year. However, the expected average stay is 6 months. However, long stays are encouraged. The research area of the doctoral training will be Dynamical Systems, and eventually focusing attention at the periodic orbits, their bifurcations, and their role inside the global dynamics of a given dynamical system. For more details see: http://mat.uab.es/sisdin/mariecurie http://www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Yours sincerely Jaume Llibre and Antonio Teruel ------ Subject: [Fwd: Post-doctoral position available at FSU] From: Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:59:12 +0100 Dear colleagues, Please find attached a postdoc offer. Best regards, Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo. -- Start of included mail. > > I am currently looking for candidates for a post-doctoral > position in theoretical or computational nonlinear dynamics and > pattern formation. The position will be available this Summer or > Fall. If you know of a potentially interested person, I would > appreciate it if you would make him or her aware of this opportunity, > or inform me of that person's name and address. > > The position will be based at the School of Computational > Science and Information Technology of Florida State > University. Current topics of research include topological defect > motion in modulated phases with application to block copolymer melts, > or studies of spatio-temporal chaos in extended systems. > > Further information can be found at > http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~vinals/ > E-mail correspondence is welcome. > > Best regards, > > Jorge Vinals > vinals@csit.fsu.edu -- End of included mail. ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 8:1 From: "shouchuan hu" Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:23:14 -0500 (EST) Jean Bourgain: On random Schr\"odinger operators on $\Bbb Z^2$ 1-15 Scott Nollet and Frederico Xavier: Global inversion via the Palais-Smale condition 17-28 Sergei Yu. Pilyugin: Inverse shadowing by continuous methods 29-38 Jean Mawhin and James R. Ward Jr: Guiding-like functions for periodic or bounded solutions of ordinary differential equations 39-54 Dan Coman: On the dynamics of a class of quadratic polynomial automorphisms of ${\mathbb C}^3$} 55-67 Huijiang Zhao: Large time decay estimates of solutions of nonlinear parabolic equations 69-114 Orlando Lopes: A linearized instability result for solitary waves 115-119 Esa J\"arvenp\"a\"a, Maarit J\"arvenp\"a\"a, and R. Daniel Mauldin: Deterministic and random aspects of porosities 121-136 Petr Kurka, Vincent Penn\'e, Sandro Vaienti: Dynamically defined recurrence dimension 137-146 Yukio Kan-on: Global bifurcation structure of stationary solutions for a Lotka-Volterra competition model 147-162 S. Benzoni-Gavage and P. Huot: Existence of semi-discrete shocks 163-190 Widodo: Topological entropy of shift function on the sequences space induced by expanding piecewise linear transformations 191-208 P. Pol\'a\v cik and E. Yanagida: Stable subharmonic solutions of reaction-diffusion equations on an arbitrary domain 209-218 Y. Chen and S. Levine: The existence of the heat flow of H-systems 219-236 N. Hayashi] and P. Naumkin: On the reduction of the modified Benjamin-Ono equation to the cubic derivative nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation 237-255 Lan Wen: A uniform $C^1$ connecting lemma 257-265 Christine Chambers and Nassif Ghoussoub: Deformation from symmetry and multiplicity of solutions in non-homogeneous problems 267-281 ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 2:1 From: "shouchuan hu" Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:23:51 -0500 (EST) Thomas Y. Hou and Pingwen Zhang: Convergence of a boundary integral method for 3-D water waves 1--34 Arno F. M\"{u}nster: Simulation of stationary chemical patterns and waves in ionic reactions 35--46 Weijiu Liu: Asymptotic behavior of solutions of time-delayed Burgers' equation 47--56 D.E. Chang, D.F. Chichka and J.E. Marsden: Lyapunov-based transfer between elliptic Keplerian orbits 57--67 C. Bourdarias, M. Gisclon and A. Omrane: Transmission boundary conditions in a model-kinetic decomposition 69--94 Mei-Qin Zhan: Finite element analysis and approximations of phase-lock equations of superconductivity 95--108 D. Bambusi, A. Carati and A. Ponno: The nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation as a resonant normal form 109--128 A. Palacios: Identification of modulated rotating waves in pattern--forming systems with ${\bf O(2)}$ symmetry 129--147 ------ Subject: Contents, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis 1:1 From: "shouchuan hu" Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:24:33 -0500 (EST) Hector D. Ceniceros: A semi-implicit moving mesh method for the focusing nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation 1--18 B.E. Ainseba, W. E. Fitzgibbon, M. Langlais and J. J. Morgan: An application of homogenization techniques to population dynamics models 19--33 D. Coutand, J. Peirce, and S. Shkoller: Global well-posedness of weak solutions for the Lagrangian averaged Navier-Stokes equations on bounded domains 35--50 K.T. Joseph and P.G. LeFloch: Boundary layers in weak solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws ii. Self-similar vanishing diffusion limits 51--76 Congming Li and Eric S. Wright: Global existence of solutions to a reaction diffusion system based upon carbonate reaction kinetics 77--84 Y. Kabeya, E. Yanagida and S. Yotsutani: Canonical forms and structure theorems for radial solutions to semi-linear elliptic problems 85--102 Sergiu Klainerman and Gigliola Staffilani: A new approach to study the Vlasov-Maxwell system 103--125 Hong-Ming Yin: Optimal regularity of solution to a degenerate elliptic system arising in electromagnetic fields 127--134 ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 15:1 From: "Elizabeth Martin" Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:12:40 +0000 INVITED ARTICLE R1 Time-reversed acoustics in random media and in chaotic cavities M Fink and J de Rosny PAPERS 1 Unidirectionally coupled interval maps: between dynamics and statistical mechanics G Keller and R Zweimuller 25 Periodic orbit theory applied to a chaotically oscillating gas bubble in water G Simon, P Cvitanovic, M T Levinsen, I Csabai and A Horvath 45 Many-body symbolic dynamics of a classical oscillator chain M Znidaric and T Prosen 65 Parabolic maps with spin: generic spectral statistics with non-mixing classical limit G Haag and S Keppeler 89 C^0 generic properties of stable and unstable sets of diffeomorphisms J R Hertz 115 Consecutive quasi-collisions in the planar circular RTBP J Font, A Nunes and C Simo 143 Point vortices on the sphere: a case with opposite vorticities F Laurent-Polz 173 Fast diffusion equation with critical Sobolev exponent in a ball V A Galaktionov and J R King 189 Quantization dimension for conformal iterated function systems L J Lindsay and R D Mauldin 201 One-dimensional reduced semiconductor equations for an asymmetric two-piece doping function R Lui and P Schultz ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 15:2 From: "Elizabeth Martin" Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:12:56 +0000 PAPERS 219 Fast and slow blowup in the S^2 sigma-model and the (4+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills model J M Linhart and L A Sadun 239 Nonequivalent statistical equilibrium ensembles and refined stability theorems for most probable flows R S Ellis, K Haven and B Turkington 257 Fourfold symmetric vortex solutions of the d-wave Ginzburg-Landau equation Q Han and T-C Lin 271 Exponential mixing for a stochastic partial differential equation driven by degenerate noise M Hairer 281 Anosov magnetic flows, critical values and topological entropy K Burns and G P Paternain 315 Stationary solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in a half-plane downstream of an obstacle: `universality' of the wake G van Baalen 367 Thermodynamic design of energy models of semiconductor devices G Albinus, H Gajewski and R Hunlich 385 The 1-soliton in the SO(3) gauged Skyrme model with mass term Y Brihaye, J Burzlaff, V Paturyan and D H Tchrakian 393 A lower bound for the Hausdorff measure of the Sierpinski gasket B Jia, Z Zhou and Z Zhu 405 Lighting Arnold flames: resonance in doubly forced periodic oscillators B B Peckham and I G Kevrekidis 429 On the speed of convergence to equilibrium states for multi-dimensional maps with indifferent periodic points M Yuri 447 Almost invariant elliptic manifold in a singularly perturbed Hamiltonian system V Gelfreich and L Lerman 459 Integrable mappings of the plane preserving biquadratic invariant curves II A Iatrou and J A G Roberts 491 Effective bifurcation analysis: a time-stepper-based approach O Runborg, C Theodoropoulos and I G Kevrekidis 513 Radiative transport limit for the random Schrodinger equation G Bal, G Papanicolaou and L Ryzhik ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Nonlinear Science 12:1 From: Bill Payne Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:18:00 -0500 Page Title Authors 1 Multipulse Orbits in the Motion of Malhotra, N. Flexible Spinning Discs Sri Namachchivaya, N. McDonald, R.J. 27 Multidimensional Symplectic Separatrix Treschev, D. Maps 59 A Host of Traveling Waves in a Model of Pego, R. L. Three-Dimensional Water-Wave Dynamics Quintero, J.R. ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Nonlinear Science 12:2 From: Bill Payne Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:58:00 -0500 Page Title Author 85 Normal Vectors on Manifolds of Critical M\"onnigmann, M. Points for Parametric Robustness of Marquardt, W. Equilibrium Solutions of ODE Systems 113 Setvalued Markov Chains, Negative Diamond, P. Semitrajectories, and Computational Vladimirov, I. Collapse of Discretized Dynamical Systems 143 Integrable Systems in 3-Dimensional Mari Beffa, G. Riemannian Geometry Sanders, J.A. Wang, Jing Ping