Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 1, Number 17 November 15, 2002 Today's editor: Angel Jorba Today's topics: Semestre on "Dynamical and Control Systems" SIAM Conference on the Geosciences SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry Workshop in Kirchzarten on Non-Newtonian Flows Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 172:1-4 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 173:1-2 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 173:3-4 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: Semestre on "Dynamical and Control Systems" From: Dynamical and Control Systems Contact Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:31:42 +0100 (CET) Trimester on: "Dynamical and Control Systems" ICTP-SISSA, Italy, Sept. 8 - Dec. 7, 2003. First Announcement Directors: Andrei Agrachev, Antonio Ambrosetti, Gian Fausto Dell'Antonio. Local Organizers: Claudio Altafini, Ugo Boscain, Massimiliano Berti, Gregoire Charlot, Natalia Chtcherbakova, Ulysse Serres, Igor Zelenko. Web site: http://www.sissa.it/fa/am/DCS2003/DCS2003.html The International School for Advanced Studies and International Centre for Theoretical Physics organize a Trimester on Dynamical and Control Systems in Trieste, Italy, Sept. 8 - Dec. 7, 2003. The activity is primarily intended for Ph. D. students (in mathematics, engineering, and physics) who are specialized or interested in Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Control Theory. The emphasis will be on the singularities of all kinds: caustics, shocks, resonances, bifurcations, etc, as fields where Dynamical Systems techniques and Control Theory can naturally interact. The activity will consist of a series of courses given by invited lecturers, research seminars, and a workshop during the last week, where young participants could also present their results. We plan to have a rather light fixed schedule in order to save time for the informal activities as well tutorials for those who need it. Preliminary list of Lecturers Andrei Agrachev (SISSA, Trieste, Italy), Sergei Bolotin (Wisconsin Univ., USA), Alberto Bressan (SISSA, Trieste, Italy), Walter Craig (McMaster Univ. Hamilton, Canada), Vittorio Coti Zelati (University of Napoli, Italy), Bronislaw Jakubczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences), Frederic Jean (ENSTA, Paris), Sergei Kuksin (Heriot-Watt Univ. Edinburgh UK), Benedetto Piccoli (IAC, CNR, Rome, Italy), Andrei Sarychev (University of Aveiro), Armen Shirikyan (Paris-Sud, Orsay, France), Vladimir Zakalyukin (Moscow State Univ. and Liverpool Univ.), Mikhail Zhitomirskii (Technion, Haifa, Israel) For Seminars, we expect the following people: A. Ambrosetti (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) D. Anosov (Steklov Institute, Moscow, Russia), A. Bacciotti (Turin, Italy) D. Bambusi (Milano, Italy), A. Bolibruch (Steklov Institute, Moscow, Russia), P. Bolle (Avignon, France), B. Bonnard (Bourgogne University, Dijon, France), L. Chierchia (Rome, Italy), J.-M. Coron (Paris Sud, France), G.F. Dell'Antonio (SISSA, Trieste, Italy), A. Davydov (Vladimir University, Russia), I. Ekeland (Paris Dauphine, France),) H. Epstein (IHES, France), G. Gallavotti (La Sapienza, Rome, Italy), to be confermed R. Gamkrelize (Steklov Institute, Moscow, Russia), J.P. Gauthier (Bourgogne University, Dijon, France), S. Marmi, (Scuola Normale Superioe, Pisa, Italy), G. Stefani (Florence, Italy), E. Zehnder (Zurich, Switzerland), to be confermed, and many others. The activity is supported by the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS), Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Marie Curie Control Training Site (CTS), M.U.R.S.T. project "Feedback and Optimal Control". Ph. D. students who are willing to participate in the trimester and are residents of the member states of the European Union, or Candidate, or Associate Countries are encouraged to apply for the 3 months CTS fellowship; see http://www.supelec.fr/CTS for details. Who can Apply? Ph.D Student less than 35 years old from one of the following countries: Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Iceland - Ireland - Israel - Latvia - Liechtenstein - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovak Republic - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - United Kingdom. After selection, these students will be supported by the Multi-partner Marie Curie Training Site, entitled Control Training Site. They are supposed to participate to the whole trimester. See: http://www.supelec.fr/lss/CTS/ Graduated students from Third World countries. After selection, these students will be supported by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Italian Ph.D Students. We plan to support a certain number of students with SISSA founds. Important Dead Lines The deadline for application will be in Spring 2003 and will be announced in November at: www.sissa.it/fa/am/DCS2003/DCS2003.html. Contact For any contact about the trimestre please use the following e-mail address: dcs03-c@sissa.it Sincerely yours, The organizers. ------ From: Kirsten Wilden Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 15:11:02 -0500 Subject: SIAM Conference on the Geosciences SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences (SIAG/GS) (GS03) Location: Radisson Hotel and Suites Austin, Austin, Texas Dates: March 17-20, 2003 The Conference Program is now available at http://www.siam.org/meetings/gs03/ For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ------ From: Kirsten Wilden Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:35:57 -0500 Subject: SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry: Challenges and Frontiers (MI03) Location: The Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto, Canada Dates: June 23-25, 2003 The Call for Presentations for this conference is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/mi03/ Deadlines: Deadline for submission of minisymposium proposals: November 26, 2002 Deadline for minisymposium speaker abstracts: December 23, 2002 Deadline for submission of contributed abstracts: December 23, 2002 For additional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ------ From: Andreas Prohl Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 11:16:43 +0100 Subject: Workshop in Kirchzarten on Non-Newtonian Flows Announcement for the Workshop (April 15-17, 2003, Kirchzarten, GERMANY) on ANALYSIS AND NUMERICS OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLOWS (Organizers: A. Prohl , R. Rannacher , M. Ruzicka) The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers in analysis and numerical analysis who work in this area. For further informations including a list of invited speakers, we refer to: http://home.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/fg/events/fluids.html ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 172:1-4 From: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:45:38 GMT For more information about this journal visit http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jnlnr/05224 Resonances and superlattice pattern stabilization in two-frequency forced Faraday waves C.M. Topaz, M. Silber pp 1-29 ''Universal'' Lie algebra extensions and their Casimir invariants via commutative structures A.B. Yanovski pp 30-48 Critical points for random Boolean networks J.F. Lynch pp 49-64 Partial synchronization: from symmetry towards stability A. Pogromsky, G. Santoboni, H. Nijmeijer pp 65-87 Stable synchronised states of coupled Tchebyscheff maps C.P. Dettmann pp 88-102 Intermittency in passive scalar decay A. Celani, D. Vincenzi pp 103-110 Parry measure and the topological entropy of chaotic repellers embedded within chaotic attractors H. Buljan, V. Paar pp 111-123 On Lagrangian stochastic modelling of material transport in oceanic gyres A.M. Reynolds pp 124-138 Derivatives and constraints in chaotic flows: asymptotic behaviour and a numerical method J.-L. Thiffeault pp 139-161 Global superheating field for superconductors in a large bounded interval C. Bolley, B. Helffer pp 162-189 Stability and instability of solitary waves of the fifth-order KdV equation: a numerical framework T.J. Bridges, G. Derks, G. Gottwald pp 190-216 Erratum to ''Parabolic resonances in three degree of freedom near-integrable Hamiltonian systems'' [Physica D 164 (2002) 213-250] A. Litvak-Hinenzon, V. Rom-Kedar pp 217 Cumulative author index to volumes 171-172 pp 218 Index of authors and papers to volume 172 pp 219 ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 173:1-2 From: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 00:36:50 GMT For more information about this journal visit http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jnlnr/05224 Perestroikas of shocks and singularities of minimum functions I.A. Bogaevsky pp 1-28 The onset of synchronization in systems of globally coupled chaotic and periodic oscillators E. Ott, P. So, E. Barreto, T. Antonsen pp 29-51 Singularity comparison between 1/f fluctuations with statistical analysis of wavelet maxima L. Du, Y. Zhuang pp 52-58 Waves and propagation failure in discrete space models with nonlinear coupling and feedback M.R. Owen pp 59-76 Nonlinear wave focusing on water of finite depth A. Slunyaev, C. Kharif, E. Pelinovsky, T. Talipova pp 77-96 Accumulating regions of winding periodic orbits in optically driven lasers B. Krauskopf, S. Wieczorek pp 97-113 Bistability and torus break-up in a semiconductor laser with phase-conjugate feedback K. Green, B. Krauskopf, K. Engelborghs pp 114-129 ------ Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:16:52 GMT From: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 173:3-4 For more information about this journal visit http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jnlnr/05224 Fundamental properties of @?-connected sets D.F. Snyder pp 131-136 Stochastic Navier-Stokes equation and renormalization group theory D. Blomker, C. Gugg, S. Maier-Paape pp 137-152 A manifold independent approach to understanding transport in stochastic dynamical systems E.M. Bollt, L. Billings, I.B. Schwartz pp 153-177 Weakly dissipative Faraday waves in 2D large aspect ratio annuli V. Lapuerta, C. Martel, J.M. Vega pp 178-203 The Hamiltonian perturbation approach of two interacting nonlinear waves or solitary pulses in an optical coupler Y. Kominis, K. Hizanidis pp 204-225 The visual cortex as a crystal P.C. Bressloff, J.D. Cowan pp 226-258 Cumulative author index to volumes pp 259 Index of authors and papers to volume pp 260-261