Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 04, Number 01 January 15, 2004 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Workshop on Analysis and Continuation of Bifurcations in Sevilla Advanced school, Electromechanical behaviour of the heart Coupled Problems at WCNA-2004 Workshop in Germany on Fluid Multiphase Systems SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures Faculty Positions at University of Nottingham PhD positions in Dynamical Systems in Groningen Free Visualization Software - HiVision Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 188:1-2 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: Workshop on Analysis and Continuation of Bifurcations in Sevilla From: Jorge Galan Vioque Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:49:20 +0000 Dear colleagues, this is a preliminary announcement of the workshop to be held in Sevilla from Wednesday the 19th until Friday the 21nd of May 2004. Workshop on Analysis and Continuation of Bifurcations. We have prepared a web page to organize the information. http://www.ma2.us.es/wacb04 and an email address wacb04@ma2.us.es Could you please distribute this message as much as possible? We would like to have a (more or less) definitive list of invited speakers (7 or 8 30-minutes talks) by the end of January and arrange the rest of the presentations (around 12 20-minutes talk + computer demonstration) by the end of March. The workshop will take place at the engineering school in Sevilla and we are trying to arrange a block reservation at a nearby Hotel for all the participants. The idea is to arrive on Wednesday and leave Saturday or Sunday (for the flights). The sooner we know the number of participants the better. As soon as we can give more details we will let you know. Jorge Galan Vioque Escuela Superior de Ingenieros http://www.ma2.us.es/~jgv Matematica Aplicada II Ph: 34-954486168 Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n Fax: 34-954486165 Sevilla 41092 (Spain) ------ Subject: Advanced school, Electromechanical behaviour of the heart From: Dominique Chapelle Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:19:23 +0100 We are pleased to announce the CEA-EDF-INRIA School entitled Electromechanical behaviour of the heart: confronting models with data towards medical applications April 26-30th 2004, INRIA - Rocquencourt (Paris area), France TOPICS: - Modelling and numerical simulation of action potential propagation and muscle excitation/contraction; - Data acquisition and processing techniques; - Specific strategies to confront models with data; - Medical challenges. ORGANIZERS: Dominique Chapelle and Frederique Clement (INRIA-Rocquencourt) KEYNOTE LECTURERS: Theo Arts (Maastricht and Eindhoven Universities) Nicholas Ayache (INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis) Piero Colli Franzone (Pavia University and IMATI) Alexander Panfilov (University of Dundee) Jacques Sainte-Marie (INRIA-Rocquencourt) Michel Sorine (INRIA-Rocquencourt) For more information, see http://www.inria.fr/actualites/colloques/cea-edf-inria/ (detailed program available in early 2004) Contact: symposia@inria.fr ------ Subject: Coupled Problems at WCNA-2004 From: "Roderick Melnik" Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:54:52 +0100 FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CPPP WORKSHOP This is the Final Call for contributions to the Workshop on Coupled Problems, Processes, and Phenomena (Modelling, Control, and Analysis), an embedded session at the World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts in Florida, USA, June 30 - July 7, 2004. Please consult the webpage of the workshop at http://www.sdu.dk/Nat/MCI/rm/workshop2004.html and contact one of the organizers not later than January 29, 2004. ------ Subject: Workshop in Germany on Fluid Multiphase Systems From: Volker Reichelt Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:27:33 +0100 (CET) WORKSHOP Announcement TRANSPORT IN FLUID MULTIPHASE SYSTEMS: FROM EXPERIMENTAL DATA TO MECHANISTIC MODELS Collaborative Research Center 540, RWTH Aachen, Germany 29-30 March, 2004 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT BACKGROUND The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 540 "Model-based Experimental Analysis of Kinetic Phenomena in Fluid Multi-phase Reactive Systems" is a multidisciplinary initiative of eleven research groups at RWTH Aachen and FZ Juelich. It is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) since 1999. Our goal is to develop a work process which allows the robust and efficient improvement of our physical understanding leading to predictive mathematical models. This work process integrates methods which have been studied separately in the majority of cases, namely: * development of experimental setup and measurement techniques, * design of experiments with high information content, * development of hypotheses and model structures, as well as * data analysis and model structure adaption. Within our work process high-resolution measurement techniques, numerical simulation on different scales, as well as model-based methods for experimental design and data analysis are employed. The development is performed by the analysis of a number of challenging modeling problems. A detailed presentation of our work can be found on our website: www.sfb540.rwth-aachen.de. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP The workshop will be held from March 29 to March 30, 2004 at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. The topics of the workshop will be: * mass transfer in liquid mixtures and gel matrices, * transport phenomena in single liquid drops and films, * measurement techniques, * modeling on different scales, * inverse problems. Invited talks from experts in these fields will be given as well as from CRC 540. The workshop is intended to bring researchers from the different areas together. Since the range of topics is large the talks are intended to give an overview rather than technical details. The workshop will further offer a poster session which will be open for external contributions. SPEAKERS The following invited speakers have already confirmed their participation of the workshop: * S.V. Alekseenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia - transport in liquid films * L.T. Biegler, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - inverse problems/optimization for PDEs * L. Gladden, University of Cambridge, UK - magnetic resonance in chemical engineering * M. Kraume, TU Berlin, Germany, investigation of single drops * V.M.M. Lobo, University of Coimbra, Portugal - diffusion in electrolytes and hydrogels * C.C. Pantelides, Imperial College, UK - multi-scale modelling * C. Schuette, FU Berlin, Germany - data analysis and simulation * C. Tropea, TU Darmstadt, Germany - kinetics of evaporation and drying INFORMATION More information can be found on the following webpage: www.sfb540.rwth-aachen.de/Workshop. CONTACT Andre Bardow (www.lpt.rwth-aachen.de/Staff/bardow.html) Ernesto Kriesten (www.lpt.rwth-aachen.de/Staff/kriesten.html) Lehrstuhl fuer Prozesstechnik (Process Systems Engineering) RWTH Aachen 52056 Aachen Germany Phone: +49-(0)241-8094668 Fax: +49-(0)241-8092326 Email: workshop2004@lpt.rwth-aachen.de ------ Subject: SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures From: Connie Young Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:58:36 -0500 The Call for Presentations for this conference is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/nw04/ DEADLINE DATES Minisymposium proposals: 03/30/04 Minisymposium abstracts and contributed abstracts in lecture or poster format: 04/27/04 CONFERENCE THEMES Nonlinear Waves in Optics and Periodic Structures Waves in Fluids, the Atmosphere and Oceans Coherent Structures in Biology Semiclassical Asymptotics and Multisoliton Turbulence Nonlinear Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensation Stability of Solitary Waves PLENARY SPEAKERS (Partial List) David Cai, Courant Institute, New York University Riemann-Hilbert Methods and Integrable Systems Percy Deift, Courant Institute, New York University Christopher Jones, University of North Carolina Andrew J. Majda, Courant Institute, New York University Lev Pitaevskii, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit di Trento and BEC-INFM, Povo, Italy and Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow, Russia Vladimir E. Zakharov, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia and the University of Arizona For additional information visit http://www.siam.org/meetings/nw04/ ------ Subject: Faculty Positions at University of Nottingham From: Paul Matthews Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:59:22 +0000 (GMT) University of Nottingham School of Mathematical Sciences Applications are invited for the following posts in the Division of Applied Mathematics. The Unit of Assessment for Applied Mathematics was graded 5 in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise and the successful candidates will be expected to contribute strongly to maintaining and enhancing our research record. Reader in Applied Mathematics Candidates should have achieved research distinction in a branch of applied mathematics and should have strong research leadership potential. Salary will be within the range 35,251 - 39,958 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience. Please quote ref. RUB/574S. Lecturer in Applied Mathematics Candidates should have achieved research distinction or have strong research potential in a branch of applied mathematics. Salary will be within the range 22,191 - 33,679 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience. Please quote ref. RUB/575S. Applications are particularly encouraged from candidates with research accomplishments in computational applied mathematics, and from those whose research activity complements current activity in the Division, particularly in modelling applications such as fluid mechanics, materials, complex systems, and medicine and biology. Candidates for both posts should be strongly committed to high quality teaching. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor O E Jensen, tel: 0115 951 3866 or Email: Oliver.Jensen@Nottingham.ac.uk. Information about the Division of Applied Mathematics is available at: http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk. Further details and application forms are available on the WWW at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/academic.html or from the Human Resources Department, Highfield House, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD. Tel: 0115 951 3262. Fax: 0115 951 5205. Please quote relevant reference number. Closing date: 30 January 2004. ------ Subject: PhD positions in Dynamical Systems in Groningen From: "H.W.Broer" Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 01:45:34 +0100 Dear Colleague, At the Department of Mathematics at Groningen University, three PhD positions are vacant in Dynamical Systems, for example with subjects a. A dynamical systems approach to atomsphere regime behaviour and climate variability b. Renormalization in Low-dimensional Dynamics c. Application of Mathematics to Spine Balance Disorders For details see `jobs' at http://www.rug.nl/wiskunde/onderzoek/programmas/dynamicalsystems Please forward this message to others who might be interested. Marco Martens and Henk Broer ------ Subject: Free Visualization Software - HiVision From: Vincent Heuveline Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:42:54 +0100 (CET) This is to announce that a new, open source release (GNU licence) of the visualization software HiVision can be downloaded from www.hiflow.de/HiVision HiVision is a visualization platform including advanced visualization techniques for the analysis and exploration of data supplied by numerical simulation. Although primarily developed for visualization in the area of computational fluid dynamics as part of the HiFlow Project (www.hiflow.de), the HiVision framework is discipline independent and may be advantageously used in various areas such as structural mechanics and reactive flow simulation. HiVision has been developed using the powerful C++ Visualization Toolkit library (VTK) and for the graphical user interface, the Qt library. The main features supported in release 2.0 are the following: - 2D/3D unstructured grids (quadrangle, hexahedron, triangle, tetraeder), - Scalar data: texture mapping, transparency, colorbar, cutplanes, isolines, isosurfaces - Vector data: interactive creation, streamlines, pathlines, glyphs, vectors, - Stereo rendering, - Animation (based on MPEG), - Mouse based interaction. Your HiVision Team: S. Boenisch, V. Heuveline ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 188:1-2 From: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 04:44:10 GMT For more information about this journal visit: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/physd Strange eigenmodes and decay of variance in the mixing of diffusive tracers W. Liu, G. Haller pp 1-39 Transitional granular flow in a spinning bucket at high frequencies P. Zamankhan, P. Zamankhan, W. Polashenski, M.H. Ghazanfari pp 40-64 Turing patterns with O(3) symmetry T.K. Callahan pp 65-91 A numerical model for light interaction with a two-level atom medium T. Colin, B. Nkonga pp 92-118 Frequency analysis of binary oscillators triggered by a random noise M. Muselli pp 119-133 A non-standard numerical scheme for a generalized Gause-type predator-prey model S.M. Moghadas, M.E. Alexander, B.D. Corbett pp 134-151