Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 04, Number 09 May 15, 2004 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Workshop in PDE in Armenia Conference on Mathematical Hydrodynamics in Russia Summer School on Applied Mathematics in Rome Winter School on Probabilistic Methods in Toulouse Studentship at University College London Faculty Position at RWTH Aachen Contents, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis 3:2 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 192:3-4 Contents, Journal of Nonlinear Science, 14:3 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 in PDE in Armenia From: "Workshop in PDE, Armenia, 2004" Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 22:35:47 +0500 As you probably know, we are organizing the workshop "Global and Geometric Aspects in Nonlinear PDE" in Yerevan, Armenia from 6 to 12 October, 2004. Scientific Committee: Luis Cafarelli, Peter Markowich, Henrik Shahgholian Organizing Committee: A. Hakobyan, M. Poghosyan This is just a reminder that you have less than a month to register for the workshop. Deadline for application: June 1, 2004 For detailed information please visit http://math.sci.am or http://www.math.kth.se/~henriksh/armenia04.html Sincerely, Organizing Committee ------ Subject: Conference on Mathematical Hydrodynamics in Russia From: Vasiliy Govorukhin Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:02:33 +0400 International conference "Mathematical hydrodynamics: models and methods" dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of Professor V.Yudovich 4-8 October 2004 Rostov on Don The International conference "Mathematical hydrodynamics: models and methods" devoted to the 70th Anniversary of professor V.Yudovich will be held in Rostov-on-Don, Russia from 4th to 8th October of 2004. It will be organised by Rostov State University . The main goal of conference is Mathematical Hydrodynamics in a broad context. The scope of the conference includes but not limited the following topics: Mathematical theory of fluid dynamics: solvability and uniqueness. Analytical dynamics and geometric-dufferential methods in hydrodynamics. Stability of flows for ideal and viscous fluids. Convective flows. Asymptotics in hydrodynamics. Vibrodynamics. Parametric resonance. Boundary layers. Spectral theory in the stability problems of hydrodynamics. Qualitative and numerical methods. Bifurcation Analysis. Transitions. Systems with symmetry and cosymmetry. Computer experiment methods and results. Contact Secretary: S. V. Revina Addr: Rostov State University Mechanical mathematical department Zorge St., 5, Rostov on Don, 344090, Russia. E-mail: kvm@math.rsu.ru Phone: (8632) 221312 URL: http://kvm.math.rsu.ru/conf2004/ENGLISH/ ------ Subject: Summer School on Applied Mathematics in Rome From: Carlo Mantegazza Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:45:44 +0200 (CEST) SUMMER SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENT The Summer School ``Analysis and Applied Mathematics'' will be held in Rome in the period 20-24 september 2004 (Lectures by X. Cabre', G. Citti, G. Dal Maso, B. Niethammer). The school is intended for PhD students and young researchers. We would be grateful if you can inform your students and forward this message to anyone who might be interested. In attachment we are sending also the ad of the school in PDF format. The web page for all the information is http://cvgmt.sns.it/roma2004 With our best regards, the organizers Valeria Chiado' Piat Adriana Garroni Carlo Mantegazza ------ Subject: Winter School on Probabilistic Methods in Toulouse From: Francoise Michel Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:50:50 +0200 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT of the WINTER SCHOOL on PROBABILISTIC METHODS IN HIGH DIMENSION PHENOMENA Toulouse, January 10-14, 2005 The school will provide young as well as expert scientists with the recent probabilistic tools developed for the investigation of high-dimensional systems. It is part of the European Network "Phenomena in High Dimension". It will be composed of the following five courses: I.Benjamini (Rehovot) ``Random walks and Percolation on graphs'' C.Borell (Goteborg) ``Minkowski sums in Gaussian analysis'' K.Johansson (Stockholm) ``Determinantal Processes in Random Matrix Theory'' G.Lugosi (Barcelona) ``Concentration of Functions of Independent Random Variables'' R.Schneider (Freiburg) ``Convexity in Stochastic Geometry'' The conference Webpage is at http://www.lsp.ups-tlse.fr/Proba_Winter_School/ It contains more information as well as the registration material. Michel Ledoux - Franck Barthe ------ Subject: Studentship at University College London From: Peter V. Coveney Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:53:50 +0100 Centre for Computational Science, University College London & Silicon Graphics Ltd EPSRC Engineering Doctorate PhD Degree COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE: High performance simulation, visualisation and grid computing Applications are invited for a four-year EPSRC funded Ph.D. studentship under a newly instituted Engineering Doctorate at University College London, co-funded by Silicon Graphics Ltd, to perform research on one or more of the following: (i) scalability of lattice-Boltzmann and/or molecular dynamics algorithms and associated codes on future SGI computer architectures; (ii) high-end visualisation capabilities for computational steering of large scale simulation based on ray-tracing algorithms; (iii) lightweight middleware to facilitate deployment of computational steering for complex modelling and simulations. The successful candidate will work closely alongside SGI scientific staff worldwide, with access to upcoming SGI technologies, and with Professor Coveney. ------ Subject: Faculty Position at RWTH Aachen From: Volker Reichelt Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:05:23 +0200 (CEST) Full Professor Mathematics RWTH Aachen Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences We are seeking qualified applicants for teaching and research in the area of Mathematics and Scientific Computing. The starting date is 01.10.2005. Candidates with a distinguished expertise in Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Simulation and Optimization, or Large Scale Scientific Computation are particularly welcome. Scientific priorities could range from the design and realization of large scale applications to theoretical foundations in Applied Analysis. Key requirements are the ability and willingness to conduct interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues from Science and Engineering in the newly founded "Centre for Computational Engineering Science (CCES)". The candidate is expected to teach students in Computational Engineering Science (CES) and in Mathematics. The candidate should have a university degree, Ph.D., Habilitation (particular qualification to teach at professorial level) or equivalent academic achievements, and didactical skills. Please send your written application to the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences Prof. Dr. A. Krieg RWTH Aachen Templergraben 55 D-52056 Aachen Germany The deadline for applications is 31.07.2004. Employment equity is one of our aims. We welcome applications from persons with disabilities. See also http://www.igpm.rwth-aachen.de/misc/CCES_C4en.html ------ Subject: Contents, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis 3:2 Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 22:59:32 -0500 From: "Hu_Shouchuan" To access the journal online, visit http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/cpaa/current_CPAA.htm CONTENTS P.E. Kloeden Pitchfork and transcritical bifurcations in systems with homogeneous nonlinearities and an almost periodic time coefficient pp. 161--173 S. Ai Multiple Positive Periodic Solutions for a delay host macroparasite model pp. 175--182 L. Bakker and G. Conner A Class of Generalized Symmetries of Smooth Flows pp. 183--195 D.L. Denny Existence of solutions to equations for the flow of an incompressible fluid with capillary effects pp. 197--216 T. Diogo, N.B. Franco and P. Lima High order product integration methods for a Volterra integral equation with logarithmic singular kernel pp. 217--235 Mostafa Abounouh and Olivier Goubet Regularity of the attractor for kp1-Burgers equation: the periodic case pp. 237--252 A. El Hamidi Multiple solutions with changing sign energy to a nonlinear elliptic equation pp. 253--265 Huey-Er Lin, Jian-Guo Liu and Wen-Qing Xu Effects of Small Viscosity and Far Field Boundary Conditions for Hyperbolic Systems pp. 267--290 Nguyen Minh Man and Nguyen Van Minh On the existence of quasi periodic and almost periodic solutions of neutral functional differential equations pp. 291--300 Kotaro Tsugawa Existence of the global attractor for weakly damped, forced KdV equation on Sobolev spaces of negative index pp. 301--318 S.Y. Lai, Y.H. Wu and X. Yang The Global Solution of an Initial Boundary Value Problem for the Damped Boussinesq equation pp. 319--328 ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 192:3-4 From: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 17:44:36 +0100 (BST) For more information about this journal visit: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/physd Uniqueness of solutions for constrained Elastica A. Pocheau, B. Roman pp 161-186 Extensivity of two-dimensional turbulence C.V. Tran, T.G. Shepherd, H.-R. Cho pp 187-195 Averaged equations for distributed Josephson junction arrays M. Bennett, K. Wiesenfeld pp 196-214 Strong NLS soliton-defect interactions R. H. Goodman, P. J. Holmes, M. I. Weinstein pp 215-248 Domain wall motion in ferromagnetic layers C. Melcher pp 249-264 Chaos for a damped and forced KdV equation M. Cabral, R. Rosa pp 265-278 Universal attractor for some singular phase transition systems E. Rocca, G. Schimperna pp 279-307 ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Nonlinear Science, 14:3 From: Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 14:40:26 -0400 Doelman, G. Hek, and N. Valkhoff Stabilization by Slow Diffusion in a Real Ginzburg-Landau System 237 S. M(ller and M. Ortiz On the G-Convergence of Discrete Dynamics and Variational Integrators 279 M. D. Groves and B. Sandstede A Plethora of Three-Dimensional Periodic Travelling Gravity-Capillary Water Waves with Multipulse Transverse Profiles 297