Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 05, Number 02 February 1, 2005 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Meeting in Sevilla on Nonlinear Excitations: theory and experiments Faculty Positions at EPFL Lausanne Book on Nonlinear PDEs for Scientists and Engineers Book on Cellular Automaton Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation New AIMS Journal on Industrial and Management Optimization Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - A 13:1 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B 5:1 Contents, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis 4:1 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 200:3-4 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/ ------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:02:09 +0100 From: Faustino Palmero Acebedo Subject: Meeting in Sevilla on Nonlinear Excitations: theory and experiments Dear colleagues and friends, We have transformed some visits into a small meeting in Sevilla (Spain), the 3-4 March 2005. It is intended as a small one in order to have time for discussions, but anyone wishing to join us is certainly welcome. The main focus of this workshop will be on the relations between theory and experiments in nonlinear systems, specially crystals. EXPECTED SPEAKERS: - Francois Fillaux (LADIR, CNRS-Thiais, France). - J Chris Eilbeck (University Heriot-Watt, Edimburgh, UK). - Guillaume James (University of Toulouse, France). - Magnus Johansson (University of Linkoping, Sweden). - Dirk Hennig (Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany). - Sen Prasenjit (University of Jawaharlar Nehru, India) - Mario Floria (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain). - Jesus Cuevas (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain). - Yannick Sire (University of Toulouse, France). - Bernardo Sanchez-Rey (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) - Ricardo Pinto (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik komplexer Systeme, Germany) - Faustino Palmero (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) For more information please check out the workshop web page at http://www.us.es/gfnl/nldd05 For questions please contact: Faustino Palmero Dep. Fisica Aplicada I. ETSI Informatica, Universidad de Sevilla Avd. Reina Mercedes s/n. Sevilla 41012, Spain e-mail: palmero@us.es ------ Subject: Faculty Positions at EPFL Lausanne From: Gianluigi Rozza Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:08:12 +0100 (MET) Faculty Positions in Mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Over the next few years EPFL intends to make numerous faculty appointments of exceptional individuals across the range of mathematics. We seek mathematical scientists with outstanding accomplishments in any domain of pure and applied mathematics, including statistics. Preference will be given at the assistant and associate professor levels, but top senior candidates will also be considered. Successful candidates will establish and lead vigorous independent research programs, interact with existing projects, and be committed to excellence in teaching. Significant start-up resources and research infrastructure will be available. Applications should be made through http://sma.epfl.ch/search by March 31st. Candidates will be required to submit curriculum vitae, concise statement of research and teaching interests, and the names and addresses (including email) of five referees as a single PDF file (at most 20 sides of A4, plus list of publications). A printed version of this file should be sent to: Professor Alfio Quarteroni Mathematics Search Committee IACS-FSB-EPFL Station 8 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland For additional information, please consult: http://sma.epfl.ch/search EPFL is an equal opportunity employer. ------ Subject: Book on Nonlinear PDEs for Scientists and Engineers From: Regina Gorenshteyn Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:32:50 -0500 Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers (Second Edition) Lokenath Debnath, University of Texas Pan-American, Edinburgh, TX, USA http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-40292-22-39525955-0,00.html Table of Contents: Preface to the Second Edition.- Preface to the First Edition.- Linear Partial Differential Equations.- Nonlinear Model Equations and Variational Principles.- First-Order, Quasi-Linear Equations and Method of Characteristics.- First-Order Nonlinear Equations and Their Applications.- Conservation Laws and Shock Waves.- Kinematic Waves and Real-World Nonlinear Problems.- Nonlinear Dispersive Waves and Whitham's Equations.- Nonlinear Diffusion-Reaction Phenomena.- Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Transform.- The Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation and Solitary Waves.- Nonlinear Klein--Gordon and Sine-Gordon Equations.- Asymptotic Methods and Nonlinear Evolution Equations.- Tables of Integral Transforms.- Answers and Hints to Selected Exercises.- Bibliography.- Index. ------ Subject: Book on Cellular Automaton Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation From: Regina Gorenshteyn Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:35:25 -0500 Cellular Automaton Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation: Characterization, Applications, and Analysis Andreas Deutsch, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany Sabine Dormann, University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck, Germany http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-40292-22-2198954-0,00.html Table of Contents: Foreword - Philip K. Maini * List of Figures * List of Notation * Introduction and Outline * On the Origin of Patterns * Mathematical Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation * Cellular Automata * Random Movement * Growth Processes * Adhesive Cell Interaction * Alignment and Cellular Swarming * Pigment Cell Pattern Formation * Tissue and Tumor Development * Turing Patterns and Excitable Media * Discussion and Outlook * Appendix A. Growth Processes: A Mean-Field Equation * Appendix B. Turing Patterns * Appendix C. Excitable Media: Complete Interaction Rule * Appendix D. Isotropy, Lattices, and Tensors * References * Index ------ Subject: New AIMS Journal on Industrial and Management Optimization From: Hu_Shouchuan Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:03:46 -0600 The inaugural issue of Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization just appeared and its online edition can be viewed at http://aimSciences.org/ This is a publication of the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (JIMO) is an international journal devoted to publishing peer-refereed, high quality, original papers on the non-trivial interplay between numerical optimization methods and practically significant problems in industry or management so as to achieve superior design, planning and/or operation. Its objective is to promote collaboration between optimization specialists, industrial practitioners and management scientists so that important practical industrial and management problems can be addressed by the use of appropriate, recent advanced optimization techniques. It is particularly hoped that the study of these practical problems will lead to the discovery of new ideas and the development of novel methodologies in optimization. Authors: F. M. Bass, A. Krishnamoorthy, A. Prasad, and S. P. Sethi Pages: 1 - 19 Title: Advertising competition with market expansion for finite horizon firms Authors: Giancarlo Bigi Pages: 21 - 32 Title: Componentwise versus global approaches to nonsmooth multiobjective optimization Authors: Regina Sandra Burachik and Alex Rubinov Pages: 33 - 38 Title: On the absence of duality gap for Lagrange-type functions Authors: P. Daniele, S. Giuffr\`e and S. Pia Pages: 39 - 52 Title: Competitive financial equilibrium problems with policy interventions Authors: David Yang Gao Pages: 53 - 63 Title: Sufficient conditions and perfect duality in nonconvex minimization with inequality constraints Authors: Qiying Hu and Wuyi Yue Pages: 65 - 80 Title: Two new optimal models for controlling discrete event systems Authors: G. Idone And A. Maugeri Pages: 81 - 86 Title: Variational inequalities and a transport planning for an elastic and continuum model Authors: Hiroshi Konno and Tomokazu Hatagi Pages: 87 - 98 Title: Index-plus-alpha tracking under concave transaction cost Authors: Gui-Hua Lin and Masao Fukushima Pages: 99 - 122 Title: A class of stochastic mathematical programs with complementarity constraints: reformulations and algorithms Authors: G. Mastroeni and L. Pellegrini Pages: 123 - 132 Title: On the image space analysis for vector variational inequalities Authors: K.F.C. Yiu, K.L. Mak and K.L. Teo Pages: 133 - 148 Title: Airfoil design via optimal control theory ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - A 13:1 From: Hu_Shouchuan Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:10:58 -0600 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A http://AIMsciences.org Authors: Alberto Bressan and Massimo Fonte Pages: 1-12 Title: On the blow-up for a discrete Boltzmann equation in the plane Authors: Alexander Blokh Pages: 13 - 34 Title: Necessary conditions for the existence of wandering triangles for cubic laminations Authors: Michael L. Frankel and Victor Roytburd Pages: 35 - 62 Title: A Finite-dimensional attractor for a nonequilibrium Stefan problem with heat losses Authors: Denis G. Gaidashev Pages: 63 - 102 Title: Renormalization of isoenergetically degenerate hamiltonian flows and associated bifurcations of invariant tori Authors: Diogo A. Gomes Pages: 103 - 116 Title: Viscosity solution methods and the discrete Aubry-Mather problem Authors: Maria Assunta Pozio and Alberto Tesei Pages: 117 - 137 Title: On the uniqueness of bounded solutions to singular parabolic problems Authors: Farid Tari Pages: 139 - 162 Title: Two-parameter families of implicit differential equations Authors: Boyan Sirakov Pages: 163 - 174 Title: Notions of sublinearity and superlinearity for nonvariational elliptic systems Authors: P. Candito, S.A. Marano and D. Motreanu Pages: 175 - 194 Title: Critical points for a class of nondifferentiable functions and applications Authors: T.K. Subrahmonian Moothathu Pages: 195 - 202 Title: Homogeneity of surjective cellular automata Authors: Jose R. Quintero Pages: 203 - 218 Title: Nonlinear stability of solitary waves for a 2-d Benney-Luke equation Authors: Arno Berger Pages: 219 - 237 Title: Multi-dimensional dynamical systems and Benford's Law ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B 5:1 From: Hu_Shouchuan Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:10:58 -0600 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B http://AIMsciences.org A special issue on Recent Advances in Vortex Dynamics and Turbulence Guest Editors: Chjan C. Lim and Ka Kit Tung Authors: Syed M. Assad and Chjan C. Lim Pages: 1 - 14 Title: Statistical equilibrium of the Coulomb/ vortex gas on the unbounded 2-dimensional Plane Authors: Denis Blackmore and Jyoti Champanerkar and C. Wang Pages : 15 - 33 Title: A generalized Poincar\'{e}-Birkhoff theorem with applications to coaxial vortex ring motion Authors: A. V. Borisov, I.S.Mamaev and S. M.Ramodanov Pages: 35 - 50 Title: Dynamics of a circular cylinder interacting with point vortices Authors: Claudio A. Buzzi and Jeroen S.W. Lamb Pages: 51 - 66 Title: Reversible Hamiltonian Liapunov Center Theorem Authors: S. Danilov Pages: 67 - 78 Title: Non-universal features of forced 2D turbulence in the energy and enstrophy ranges Authors: Eleftherios Gkioulekas and Ka Kit Tung Pages: 79 - 102 Title: On the double cascades of energy and enstrophy in two dimensional turbulence. Part 1. Authors: Eleftherios Gkioulekas and Ka Kit Tung Pages: 103 - 124 Title: On the double cascades of energy and enstrophy in two dimensional turbulence. Part 2. Authors: Joseph Nebus Pages: 125 - 136 Title: The Dirichlet quotient of point vortex interactions on the surface of the sphere examined by Monte Carlo experiments Authors: Paul K. Newton, Michael Ruith, and Eric Upchurch Pages: 137 - 152 Title: The constrained planar N-vortex problem: I. Integrability Authors: John V. Shebalin Pages: 153 - 174 Title: Theory and simulation of real and ideal magnetohydrodynamic turbulence ------ Subject: Contents, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis 4:1 From: Hu_Shouchuan Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:10:58 -0600 Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis http://AIMsciences.org Authors: Wenxiong Chen and Congming Li Pages: 1 - 8 Title: Regularity of solutions for a system of integral equations Authors: L. Cherfils and Y. Il'yasov Pages: 9 - 22 Title: On the stationary solutions of generalized reaction diffusion equations with ${\bf p \& q}$-Laplacian Authors: C. Guillop\'e, A. Hakim and R. Talhouk Pages: 23 - 43 Title: Existence of steady flows of slightly compressible viscoelastic fluids of White-Metzner type around an obstacle Authors: C.E. Kenig and S.N. Ziesler Pages: 45 - 91 Title: Maximal function estimates with applications to a modified Kadomstev-Petviashvili equation Authors: A. Greco and M. Lucia Pages: 93 - 99 Title: Gamma-star-shapedness for semilinear elliptic equations Authors: J. Mierczy\'nski and W. Shen Pages: 101 - 114 Title: The Faber--Krahn inequality for random/nonautonomous parabolic equations Authors: V.V. Chepyzhov and A. Miranville Pages: 115 - 142 Title: Trajectory and global attractors of dissipative hyperbolic equations with memory Authors: N. Hirano, A.M. Micheletti and A. Pistoia Pages: 143 - 164 Title: Existence of sign changing solutions for some critical problems on $R^N$ Authors: D. Pra\v{z}\'ak Pages: 165 - 174 Title: On the dimension of the attractor for the wave equation with nonlinear damping Authors: Yavdat Il'yasov and Nadir Sari Pages: 175 - 185 Title: Solutions of minimal period for a Hamiltonian system with a changing sign potential Authors: R. Jensen and A. \'Swi\c ech Pages: 187 - 195 Title: Uniqueness and existence of maximal and minimal solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic PDE Authors: Haitao Yang Pages: 197 - 208 Title: On the existence and asymptotic behavior of large solutions for a semilinear elliptic problem in R^n ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 200:3-4 From: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:07:43 GMT For more information about this journal visit: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/physd Stability and Hopf bifurcation analysis on a simplified BAM neural network with delays Y. Song, M. Han, J. Wei pp 185-204 Statistically optimal almost-invariant sets G. Froyland pp 205-219 Changing shapes: adiabatic dynamics of composite solitary waves A. Alonso Izquierdo, M.A. Gonzalez Leon, M. de la Torre Mayado, J. Mateos Guilarte pp 220-241 Huge novel solution of the system describing the resonant interaction of three waves F. Calogero, A. Degasperis pp 242-256 Statistical mechanics of geophysical turbulence: application to jovian flows and Jupiter's great red spot P.-H. Chavanis pp 257-272 Dynamics of defects and traveling waves in an interfacial finger pattern P. Habdas, J.R. de Bruyn pp 273-286 A nonlinear correlation measure for multivariable data set Q. Wang, Y. Shen, J.Q. Zhang pp 287-295 Periodic oscillation in curved duct flows L. Wang, T. Yang pp 296-302 Complex oscillations and waves of calcium in pancreatic acinar cells D. Simpson, V. Kirk, J. Sneyd pp 303-324 The existence and stability of travelling waves with transition layers for some singular cross-diffusion systems Y. Wu, X. Zhao pp 325-358