Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 04, Number 16 September 1, 2004 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: SIAM Conference on Geosciences Conference at Brown Honoring David Gottlieb Postdoc position at Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada Postgraduate research student vacancy in Hong Kong Contents, Communications in Mathematical Sciences 2:3 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: SIAM Conference on Geosciences From: Kirsten Wilden Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:46:48 -0400 SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences - CFP Deadlines Conference Name: SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences Location: Palais des Papes, The International Conference Center, Avignon, France Dates: June 7-10, 2005 ------ Subject: Conference at Brown Honoring David Gottlieb From: Wei Cai Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:58:41 -0400 International Conference on the Research Trend for PDE Modeling and Computation On the Occasion of Prof. David Gottlieb's 60th Birthday Brown University November 7-8, 2004 Conference program and registration information are posted at the website http://www.math.uncc.edu/gottlieb/ There is no registration fee, however, an e-mail registration to wcai@uncc.edu is required for participation. ------ Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:07:38 -0400 From: "Roderick Melnik" Subject: Postdoc position at Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada Postdoctoral Position in Mathematical Modelling at Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Position in Mathematical Modelling at Laurier university in Waterloo, Canada. The successful candidate will be part of the research program in applied mathematics, mathematical modelling, and computational science at Laurier. The main areas of interest include: nonlinear problems in computational optoelectronics, thermoelasticity, and modelling dynamics of biomolecules. However, all strong candidates active in related areas of nonlinear analysis and mathematical modelling will be given careful consideration. The appointment is funded by the Canada Research Chair program as part of the continual development of interdisciplinary research in the areas of mathematical modelling at Laurier. Further information: http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwmath/faculty/rmelnik/mathematical_modelling_openings.html Complete applications by e-mail as well as informal inquiries are welcome (contact Professor Roderick Melnik at rmelnik@wlu.ca, tel.: +1-519-884-1970 (ext. 3662)). ------ Subject: Postgraduate research student vacancy in Hong Kong From: Michael Small Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:34:41 +0800 MPhil/PhD Studentship Department of Electronic and Information Engineering Hong Kong Polytechnic University A vacancies currently exists for a postgraduate research student in the Department of Electronic and Information Enginering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Applicants must have a good honours degree in mathematics, physics or engineering and an interest in pursuing research in chaos communication or nonlinear signal processing and nonlinear time series analysis. It is intended that the research topic will be in one of the following areas: * Nonlinear dynamics in the human cardiac system. * Application of nonlinear time series analysis to human pulse measurement and pulse diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine * Small world and scale free network models: application to disease propagation including the transmission of the SARS coronavirus in Hong Kong * Building better models and making better predictions: nonlinear modelling, nonlinear state estimation, and ensemble predictions from scalar time series data. Further information about the department and the relevant research areas may be found on the following pages http://small.eie.polyu.edu.hk/ http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~cktse/NSR/ Studentships are competitive and cover university fees and living costs. This studentship is available immediately. For further information please contact: Dr Michael Small Electronic and Information Engineering Hong Kong Polytechnic University Tel.: +852 2766 4744 email: ensmall@polyu.edu.hk providing a brief CV and a description of your research interests. ------ Subject: Contents, Communications in Mathematical Sciences 2:3 From: Communications in Math Sciences Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:07:35 -0500 (CDT) Communications in Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Vol 2, No.3, 2004 Abstract is available at www.math.wisc.edu/~jcms full articles will be available at www.intlpress.com/CMS * Guillaume Bal and Lenya Ryzhik Time splitting for the Liouville equation in a random medium * Thomas G. Kurtz and Jie Xiong A stochastic evolution equation arising from the fluctuation of a class of interacting particle systems * Zhiqiang Sheng, Xingping Liu and Xia Cui Domain decomposition algorithm for the parabolic equation with variable coefficient * Francois Bouchut and Michael Westdickenberg Gravity driven shallow water models for arbitrary topography * A.A. Ilyin, A. Miranville and E.S. Titi Small viscosity sharp estimates for the global attractor of the 2d damped-driven Navier-Stokes equations * Paul Milewski, Estaban Tabak, Cristina Turner, Ruben Rosales, and Fernando Menzaque Nonlinear stability of two-layer flows * Andrew J. Christlieb, James A. Rossmanith and Peter Smereka The Broadwell model in a thin channel * Jinghua Wang, Hairui Wen and Tie Zhou On large time step Godunov scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws * A.R. Zakharian, M. Brio and J.V. Moloney FDTD Based Second-Order Accurate Local Mesh Refinement Method for Maxwell's Equations in Two Space Dimensions