Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 04, Number 06 April 1, 2004 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Workshop on Hamiltonian Systems, Control and Plasma Physics Meeting on Variational methods and the N-body problem Faculty Position at TU Chemnitz Faculty Position at the University of Vienna Contents, Journal of Nonlinear Science, 14:1-2 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 10:4 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 11:1 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 4:3 Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 1:1 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 Hamiltonian Systems, Control and Plasma Physics From: "HSCoPP'04" Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:21:50 +0200 First announcement of the meeting ----------------------------------------------------------- HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS, CONTROL AND PLASMA PHYSICS (HSCoPP'04) http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~hscopp04 ----------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, We are please to announce the meeting "Hamiltonian Systems, Control and Plasma Physics" which will be held from October 21 to 23, 2004 in Frejus (Mediterranean coast, France). This meeting is a satellite meeting of the 12th International Congress on Plasma Physics held in Nice from October 25 to 29, 2004. Scope of the meeting: To report and discuss the recent advances in Control of transport in Hamiltonian systems with applications in plasma physics and related fields. The meeting will focus on theoretical contributions as well as experimental set-ups and results. Four point de vue / review talks per day, short communications, and a poster session will be organized. Scientific committee: P.H. Diamond, Ph. Ghendrih, P. Kaw, R. Lima, M. Pettini Organizing committee: C. Chandre, R. Lima List of speakers: V. Antoni, J.R. Cary, G. Ciraolo, F. Doveil, X. Garbet, C. Hidalgo, P. Kaw, T. Klinger, J. Laskar, V. Naulin, A.K. Sen, U. Stroth More information, list of speakers and registration details are available on the web page http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~hscopp04 The deadline for (online) registration is July 1st, 2004. HSCoPP'04 Centre de Physique Theorique - CNRS Luminy - case 907 F-13288 Marseille cedex 9, France Email: hscopp04@cpt.univ-mrs.fr Webpage: http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~hscopp04 Tel: +33 (0)4 91 26 95 22 Fax: +33 (0)4 91 26 95 53 ------ Subject: Meeting on Variational methods and the N-body problem From: susanna terracini Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:20:00 +0100 Dear collegue, within the conference "Symmetry and Pertubation Theory" a special theme will be "Variational methods and the N-body problem". This meeting belongs to a series of reasearch conferences named Symmetry and Perturbation Theory and will take place in {Cala Gonone} (Sardinia, Italy) on 30/5 -- 6/6, 2004. Confirmed speakers for the N-body theme are S. Bolotin, D. Ferrario, M. Hsiang, R. Moeckel, R. Montgomery, S. Terracini. You'll find all information about this meeting at the page http://www.sptspt.it I warmly hope you will join this conference and am looking forward to see you in Cala Gonone. Sincerely yours, Susanna ------ Subject: Faculty Position at TU Chemnitz From: Peter Weigand Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:40:57 +0100 Applications are invited for the tenured position of Full Professor (C4) in Numerical Analysis (Partial Differential Equations) Candidates with a proven outstanding record in Numerical Analysis, particularly in Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations and its application to technological problems are encouraged to apply. He or she is expected to collaborate closely with colleagues involved in the DFG Special Research Center and with engineers. Appropriate participation in organizational duties and responsibilities and in the training of young researchers are essential. The successful candidate is expected to have experience in securing external funding and in managing externally funded projects, as well as international experience in teaching and research. In line with article of the Higher Education act (Saechsisches Hochschulgesetz), a postdoctoral lecturing qualification (Habilitation) or comparable qualifications for a teaching career in higher education are required. The successful candidate will be offered civil servant or public sector employee status (Professor Grade "C4" according to the German system). Applications must reach the Technische Universitaet Chemnitz, Dean Prof. Bernd Heinrich, Fakultat fur Mathematik, D-09107 Chemnitz http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/sfb393/ ------ Subject: Faculty Position at the University of Vienna From: Arnold Neumaier Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 21:16:13 +0100 The Department of Mathematics at the University of Vienna has an open position for a Professor for Differential Equations Details (in German) can be found at http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/ausschreibung.php Arnold Neumaier ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Nonlinear Science, 14:1-2 From: "William Payne" Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:16:43 -0500 Journal of Nonlinear Science, Vol. 14, Nos. 1 & 2 Page Title Author 1 A Constructive Approach to Traveling Stevens,A. Waves in Chemotaxis Horstmann, D. 27 Stability and Bifuraction Analysis of Stone, E. a Nonlinear DDE Model for Drilling Campbell,S. A. 59 Analysis of the Computational Zagaris, A. Singular Perturbation Reduction Kaper, H. G. Method for Chemical Kinetics Kaper, T. J. 93 Spatially Extended Circle Maps: Coutinho,R. Monotone Periodic Dynamics of Fernandez, B. Functions with Linear Growth ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 10:4 From: "Hu_Shouchuan" Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:09:57 -0600 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A http://AIMsciences.org A special issue on Traveling Waves and Shock Waves Guest Editors: Xiao-Biao Lin and Stephen Schecter Peter Howard and Kevin Zumbrun The Evans function and stability criteria for degenerate viscous shock waves pp. 837--855 Todd Kapitula and Bj\"orn Sandstede Eigenvalues and resonances using the Evans function pp. 857--869 Weishi Liu Multiple viscous wave fan profiles for Riemann solutions of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws pp. 871--884 Ramon Plaza and Kevin Zumbrun An Evans function approach to spectral stability of small-amplitude shock profiles pp. 885--924 Jonathan E. Rubin A nonlocal eigenvalue problem for the stability of a traveling wave in a neuronal medium pp. 925--940 Bj\"orn Sandstede and Arnd Scheel Evans function and blow-up methods in critical eigenvalue problems pp. 941--964 Stephen Schecter, Bradley J. Plohr and Dan Marchesin Computation of Riemann solutions using the Dafermos regularization and continuation pp. 965--986 ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 11:1 From: "Hu_Shouchuan" Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:09:57 -0600 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A http://AIMsciences.org A special issue on Qualitative Properties of Some Evolution Equations Guest Editors: D. Bresch, T. Colin, M. Ghil, S. Wang B. Bid\'egaray-Fesquet, F. Castella and P. Degond From Bloch model to the rate equations 1-26 J.L. Bona and H. Kalisch Singularity formation in the generalized Benjamin-Ono equation pp. 27--45 D. Bresch, B. Desjardins and D. G\'erard-Varet Rotating fluids in a cylinder pp. 47--82 T. Colin and D. Lannes Justification of and long-wave correction to Davey-Stewartson systems from quadratic hyperbolic systems pp. 83--100 P. Constantin, I. Kevrekidis and E. S. Titi Remarks on a Smoluchowski equation pp. 101--112 B. Ducomet, E. Feireisl, H. Petzeltov\' a, I. Stra\v skraba Global in time weak solutions for compressible barotropic self-gravitating fluids pp. 113--130 O. Gu\'es, Guy M\'etivier, M. Williams and K. Zumbrun Boundary layer and long time stability for multi-D viscous shocks pp. 131--160 Chiu-Ya Lan and Chi-Kun Lin Asymptotic behavior of the compressible viscous potential fluid: renormalization group approach pp. 161--188 T. Ma and S. Wang Asymptotic structure for solutions of the Navier--Stokes equations pp. 189--204 Guy Metivier and Kevin Zumbrun Symmetrizers and continuity of stable subspaces for parabolic-hyperbolic boundary value problems pp. 205--220 Steven Schochet Long-time averaging for some conservative PDEs having quadratic nonlinearities pp. 221--233 ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 4:3 From: "Hu_Shouchuan" Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:09:57 -0600 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B http://AIMsciences.org Advances in Mathematical Biology Guest Editors: Lansun Chen, Yang Kuang, Shigui Ruan and Glenn Webb O. Arino, M. Delgado and M. Molina-Becerra Asymptotic behavior of disease-free equilibriums of an age-structured predator-prey model with disease in the prey pp. 501--515 G. Buffoni, S. Pasquali, G. Gilioli A stochastic model for the dynamics of a stage structured population pp. 517--525 Robert Stephen Cantrell, Chris Cosner and Shigui Ruan Intraspecific interference and consumer-resource dynamics pp. 527--546 Jingan Cui, Xinyu Song Permanence of predator-prey system with stage structure pp. 547--554 J.W. Dou, L.S. Chen and K.T. Li A monotone-iterative method for finding periodic solutions of an impulsive competition system on tumor-normal cell interaction pp. 555--562 Meng Fan and Qian Wang Periodic solutions of a class of nonautonomous discrete time semi-ratio-dependent predator-prey systems pp. 563--574 Christoph Hauert, Nina Haiden, Karl Sigmund The dynamics of public goods pp. 575--587 Z. He, M. Wang and Z. Ma Optimal birth control problems for nonlinear age-structured population dynamics pp. 589--594 Jing Hui and Lan-Sun Chen Impulsive vaccination of sir epidemic models with nonlinear incidence rates pp. 595--605 Haiying Jing and Zhaoyu Yang The impact of state feedback control on a predator-prey model with functional response pp. 607--614 Tsuyoshi Kajiwara and Toru Sasaki A note on the stability analysis of pathogen-immune interaction dynamics pp. 615--622 Dianmo Li, Zengxiang Gao, Zufei Ma, Baoyu Xie, Zhengjun Wang Two general models for the simulation of insect population dynamics pp. 623--628 Dianmo Li, Zhen Zhang, Zufei Ma, Baoyu Xie, Rui Wang Allee effect and a catastrophe model of population dynamics pp. 629--634 Jianquan Li and Zhien Ma Stability analysis for SIS epidemic models with vaccination and constant population size pp. 635--642 Xue-Zhi Li and Geni Gupur Global stability of an age-structured SIRS epidemic model with vaccination pp. 643--652 Zhijun Liu and Weidong Wang Persistence and periodic solutions of a nonautonomous predator-prey diffusion with Holling III functional response and continuous delay pp. 653--662 Zhiqi Lu Global stability for a chemostat-type model with delayed nutrient recycling pp. 663--670 Wanbiao Ma and Yasuhiro Takeuchi Asymptotic properties of a delayed $SIR$ epidemic model with density dependent birth rate pp. 671--678 Zufei Ma, Dianmo Li and Baoyu Xie Quantifying the danger for Parnassius Nomion on Beijing Dongling mountain pp. 679--686 Zufei Ma, Dianmo Li and Baoyu Xie Is there a sigmoid growth of Gause's paramecium caudatum in constant environment pp. 687--694 K. Magn\'usson, S. Sigurdsson, P. Babak, S. Gudmundsson, E. Dereksd\'ottir A continuous density Kolmogorov type model for a migrating fish stock pp. 695--704 H. Malchow, F.M. Hilker and S.V. Petrovskii Noise and productivity dependence of spatiotemporal pattern formation in a prey-predator system pp. 705--711 J. G. Ollason and N. Ren A general dynamical theory of foraging in animals pp. 713--720 Zhipeng Qiu, Jun Yu and Yun Zou The asymptotic behavior of a chemostat model pp. 721--727 Hongshan Ren Stability analysis of a simplified model for the control of testosterone secretion pp. 729--738 Toru Sasaki The effect of local prevention in an SIS model with diffusion pp. 739--746 Xinyu Song, Liming Cai and Avidan U. Neumann Ratio-dependent predator-prey system with stage structure for prey pp. 747--758 Sanyi Tang and Lansun Chen Modelling and analysis of integrated pest management strategy pp. 759--768 Feng-Mei Tao, Lan-Sun Chen And Li-Xian Xia Correspondence analysis of body form characteristics of Chinese ethnic groups pp. 769--776 J. Wang, P. K. Hansen, S. Christensen And G. Qi The mathematical method of studying the reproduction structure of weeds and its application to Bromus sterilis pp. 777--788 Kaifa Wang And Aijun Fan Uniform persistence and periodic solution of chemostat-type model with antibiotic pp. 789--795 Wendi Wang Population dispersal and disease spread pp. 797--804 Tianfa Xie and Zhong-Zhan Zhang Identifiability of models for clinical trials with noncompliance pp. 805--811 C. Xiong, J.P. Miller, F. Gao, Y. Yan, And J.C. Morris Testing increasing hazard rate for the progression time of dementia pp. 813--821 Rui Xu, M.A.J. Chaplain, F.A. Davidson Periodic solutions of a discrete nonautonomous Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model with time delays pp. 823-831 Masahiro Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro Takeuchi, Wanbiao Ma Population Dynamics of sea bass and young sea bass pp. 833--840 Zhou Yicang and P. Fergola Dynamics of a discrete age-structured SIS models pp. 841--850 Jianhong Wu and Ruyuan Zhang A simple delayed neural network with large capacity for associative memory pp. 851--863 ------ Subject: Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 1:1 From: kuang Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:16:07 -0700 Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Vol. 1, Number 1, June, 2004 http://math.asu.edu/%7Embe/MBEv1n1.htm G.F. Webb, M.J. Blaser, H. Zhu, S. Ardal and J. Wu, Critical Role of Nosocomial Transmission in the Toronto SARS Outbreak. pp. 1-13. H.T. Banks, C.E. Cole, P.M. Schlosser and H.T. Tran, Modeling and Optimal Regulation of Erythropoiesis Subject to Benzene Intoxication. pp. 15-48. F.S. Vannucchi and S. Boccaletti, Chaotic spreading of epidemics in complex networks of excitable units. pp. 49-55. A. Korobeinikov and P.K. Maini, A Lyapunov function and global properties for SIR and SEIR epidemiological models with nonlinear incidence. pp. 57-60. M.S. Olufsen and A. Nadim, On deriving lumped models for blood flow and pressure in the systemic arteries. pp. 61-80. B.H. Singer and D.E. Kirschner, Influence of backward bifurcation on interpretation of R_0 in a model of epidemic tuberculosis with reinfection. pp. 81-93. Urszula Ledzewicz and Heinz Schattler, Controlling a model for bone marrow dynamics in cancer chemotherapy. pp. 95-110. Martin Baurmann, Wolfgang Ebenhoh and Ulrike Feudel, Turing instabilities and pattern formation in a benthic nutrient-microorganism system. pp.111-130. Zhilan Feng, Robert Swihart, Yingfei Yi and Huaiping Zhu Coexistence in a metapopulation model with explicit local dynamics. pp. 131-145. V.S. Anishchenko, T.E. Vadivasova, G.I. Strelkova, G.A. Okrokvertskhov, Statistical properties of dynamical chaos. pp. 147-170. B. Spagnolo, D. Valenti, and A. Fiasconaro, Noise in ecosystems: A short review. pp. 171-197.