Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 05, Number 06 April 1, 2005 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Summer School on Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics Summer School and Workshop on Mixing School on Synchronization of Dynamical Systems and Complex Networks PhD Fellowship Position at ENPC, Paris Postdoctoral Positions at the University of Coimbra Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 201:3-4 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 202:1-2 Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2:2 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: Summer School on Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics From: Joachim Krug Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:27:58 +0100 (MET) The International Summer School entitled FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS IN STATISTICAL PHYSICS XI will take place near Leuven, Belgium, September 4 to 17, 2005. This School is the eleventh in a series with a long tradition going back to 1961. We are inviting applications from PhD students and junior researchers to make use of this unique opportunity to learn about the most recent trends in Statistical Physics from top level lecturers in a beautiful and stimulating environment. This year's program includes the following lecturers and subjects: Deepak Dhar (Mumbai, India): Exactly solved models of self-organized criticality Claudia Filippi (Leiden, the Netherlands): Quantum Monte Carlo methods Matthew Fisher (UC Santa Barbara, USA): Exotic quantum phases and phase transitions in correlated matter Pierre Gaspard (Brussels, Belgium): Hamiltonian dynamics, nanosystems, and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics Haye Hinrichsen (Wuerzburg, Germany): Non-equilibrium phase transitions Frank Juelicher (Dresden, Germany): Biological problems solved by statistical physics Michael Schick (Seattle, Washington, USA): Complex fluids Herbert Spohn (TU Munich, Germany): Exact solutions for KPZ-type growth problems and equilibrium shapes of crystals Henk Stoof (Utrecht, the Netherlands): Bose-Einstein condensates Julia Yeomans (Oxford, UK): Mesoscale simulations: lattice Boltzmann and particle algorithms Annette Zippelius (Goettingen, Germany): Granular matter Each lecturer will give a course of (three to) four hours, on a level accessible to students at or near the PhD level. The full text of the lectures will be published in Physica A. In addition to the lectures, about ten one-hour seminars will be given by eminent speakers. All participants are invited to present their own research in a poster session. The venue of the School is the European Centre La Foresta, a former Franciscan monastery located in beautiful natural surroundings 25 km from Brussels, and 5km from Leuven. Participation is limited to about 125 students. On-line applications are to be submitted exclusively through the web page of the School http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/FPSPXI/ where further information about the scientific advisory committee, the programme, the venue, the sponsors, and related issues can be found. The closing date for applications is April 15, 2005. The participation fee for the School is 700 EUR which covers all local costs including full board accommodation and complete lecture notes. For individual EPS members there is a 30 EUR discount. A limited number of scholarships will be available. ------ Subject: Summer School and Workshop on Mixing From: Igor Mezic Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:50:20 -0800 CISM (International Centre for Mechanical Science) organizes advanced schools addressed to researchers and doctoral students. This schools are selected by an international Scientific Council and the lecturers are all well known scientists from various countries. A course by the title "Analysis and Control of Mixing with an Application to Micro and Macro Flow Processes" coordinated by professors L.Cortelezzi (McGill University) and I.Mezic (UCSB), will be given from June 27 to July 1, 2005. The course will provide an overview of the physics, mathematics and state-of-the-art theoretical/numerical modeling and experimental investigations of mixing in turbulent and laminar flows at macro and micro scales. In regard to laminar mixing, the course intends to present mathematical and physical underpinnings of this subject that has received much attention recently due to developments in microfluidic flows. In regard to turbulent mixing, the course will characterize the preferred structures in the vorticity and scalar fields and their mutual dynamics and kinematics as they cascade to small scales. Particular attention is given to the characterization of the mixing properties of coherent three-dimensional vortical structures using the dynamical systems concepts. The course intends to present realistic sensors and actuators that can be used in engineering applications in order to control mixing. Finally, the course presents some examples of control of mixing in micro and macro applications. This course will be complemented by a workshop. The scope of the workshop is to provide a fertile environment for discussions where participants in the course, as well as academic and industry experts from fluids, combustion and control and geophysics disciplines, could present their recent results. The following speakers will give a lecture at the workshop: Hassan Aref - Virginia Polytechnic Institute (USA) Eckart Meiburg - University of California at Santa Barbara (USA) Metin Muradoglu - Koc University (Turkey) Oreste Piro - Universitat de les Illes Baleares (Spain) Bartek Protas - McMaster University (Canada) Vered Rom-Kedar - The Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) Tom Solomon - Bucknell University (USA) Fotis Sotiropoulos - Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Mark Stremler Vanderbilt University (USA) Tamas Tel - Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary) Jean-Luc Thiffeault - Imperial College London (UK) In http://www.cism.it/cism/p2005/annC0502.pdf you will find information about the contents of the school and the procedures for admission. ------ Subject: School on Synchronization of Dynamical Systems and Complex Networks From: Societa' Italiana Caos e Complessita' Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:42:36 +0100 4th International School TOPICS IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICS: Synchronization of Dynamical Systems and Complex Networks Florence (Italy), September 8th-10th, 2005 Organized by SICC - Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity The 4th International School "Topics in Non linear Dynamics: Synchronization in Non linear Systems and Complex Networks", organized by the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity (SICC) in cooperation with the Group of dynamicists of the Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata in Florence, is primarily oriented to young researchers and PhD students interested in the theory and applications of the various kind of synchronization of non linear dynamical systems. Aim of the school is to cover both introductory and advanced topics. The basic theory and methods will be introduced through examples and applications will be described in various fields of Physics, Economics, Engineering and Biology. The topics of the school are Theory of phase locking Constructive effects of noise in non linear systems Simple and complex attractors, chaotic dynamics Complete and phase synchronization of periodic and chaotic systems Models of complex networks Synchronization of complex networks Conformal map theory for Laplacian and bi-Laplacian problems in 2 dimensions People regularly registered at the school will be allowed to download papers, manuscripts and teaching materials from a reserved area of the web page. LECTURERS STEFANO BOCCALETTI Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata (Italy) MARIO DI BERNARDO University of Sannio (Italy) MATTIA FRASCA University of Catania (Italy) ROBERTO GENESIO University of Florence (Italy) MARCO GILLI Politecnico di Torino (Italy) POLINA LANDA Moscow State University (Russia) VITO LATORA University of Catania (Italy) RICCARDO MEUCCI Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata (Italy) ITAMAR PROCACCIA Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) ANTONELLO PROVENZALE CNR Torino (Italy) MICHAEL ROSENBLUM University of Potsdam (Germany) For information and applications, visit the website http://www.ino.it/School/ ------ Subject: PhD Fellowship Position at ENPC, Paris From: Alexandre Ern Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:02:00 +0100 A PhD fellowship in Numerical Hydrology is available at Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussees in Paris. In hillslopes exposed to heavy rain events, the watertable can raise until it reaches the ground surface. Its dynamics is governed by a degenerate nonlinear parabolic equation featuring a moving boundary separating saturated and partially saturated conditions. Once exfiltration occurs at the ground surface, overland flow is produced leading to floods. The goal of the thesis is to develop, analyze and implement finite element schemes suitable to approximate models coupling shallow watertable dynamics with overland flow. The PhD student will work in the Fluid Dynamics group of the CERMICS (Applied Math) Laboratory (see http://cermics.enpc.fr) and will be supervised by Dr. Alexandre Ern and Dr. Serge Piperno. Practicalities: - PhD fellowship awarded from October 2005 to September 2008 - salary of approximately 1400Euro/month net - deadline for application: April 30, 2005 Conditions to apply: 1/ to possess or to be in the point of obtaining a Master of Science with a speciality in Numerical Analysis or Scientific Computing; marks should be with honors 2/ to have at least some basic knowledge on finite element methods and partial differential equations 3/ to be at most 28 years in age To apply: send email to ern@cermics.enpc.fr and include CV, transcript of records, and the name of two references. ------ Subject: Postdoctoral Positions at the University of Coimbra From: Luis Nunes Vicente Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:48:40 +0000 Postdoctoral Research Positions The Centre for Mathematics of the University of Coimbra (CMUC) accepts applications for one-year postdoctoral positions in all areas of Mathematics. CMUC has been recently classified as a research unit of excellence by an international funding panel. In particular, the Centre welcomes applications in the following areas: Computational Mathematics & Scientific Computing. Group and Algebras Representations. Category Theory. Multilinear Algebra, Matrix Theory & Combinatorics. Nonparametric Statistics. Nonlinear Time-Series Modelling. Partial Differential Equations. Quantum Groups. Symplectic and Poisson Geometry. Stochastic Analysis. Mathematics of Finance. The positions obey to the portuguese scholarship system (http//www.fct.mces.pt). The salary will be determined by the candidate's qualifications and experience and can vary between 17940 and 24720 EUR a year (tax free). The positions include benefits and a professional travel allowance. There are no teaching duties associated to the positions, which should start by September/October 2005. Applicants must have (or soon have) a Ph.D. in Mathematics and a good command of english. Applications will be accepted until April 30, 2005. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae (publication list included), a statement of research interests (one page maximum), and at least two letters of recommendation (or names of references) by regular mail or e-mail to: Centre for Mathematics - University of Coimbra Apartado 3008, 3001-454 Coimbra, Portugal cmuc@mat.uc.pt http://www.mat.uc.pt/~cmuc ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 201:3-4 From: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:38:22 GMT For more information about this journal visit: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/physd Dynamics of the Bose-Einstein condensation V.E. Zakharov, S.V. Nazarenko pp 203-211 Accumulations of T-points in a model for solitary pulses in an excitable reaction-diffusion medium A.J. Homburg, M.A. Natiello pp 212-229 On a class of implicit solutions of the continuity and Euler's equations for 1D systems with long range interactions P. Choquard, J. Wagner pp 230-248 Non-integrability of Gross-Neveu systems A.J. Maciejewski, M. Przybylska, T. Stachowiak pp 249-267 Homoclinic orbits to invariant tori near a homoclinic orbit to center-center-saddle equilibrium O. Koltsova, L. Lerman, A. Delshams, P. Gutierrez pp 268-290 Dynamics of domain walls governed by the convective Cahn-Hilliard equation A. Podolny, M.A. Zaks, B.Y. Rubinstein, A.A. Golovin, A.A. Nepomnyashchy pp 291-305 Generalized phase space projection for nonlinear noise reduction M.T. Johnson, R.J. Povinelli pp 306-317 Dynamics in the 1:2 spatial resonance with broken reflection symmetry J. Porter, E. Knobloch pp 318-344 ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 202:1-2 From: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:34:18 GMT For more information about this journal visit: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/physd Frame invariance and conservation in two-dimensional subgrid models T. Dubos pp 1-15 Bifurcations of travelling wave solutions in the discrete NLS equations D.E. Pelinovsky, V.M. Rothos pp 16-36 Reduction of a model of an excitable cell to a one-dimensional map G.S. Medvedev pp 37-59 Green's function method for perturbed DNLS equation with the squared spectrum parameter H. Cai, N.N. Huang pp 60-70 Autonomous indefiniteness versus external indefiniteness: Theory of weak topped @?-structure and its application to elementary local cellular automaton T. Haruna, Y.P. Gunji pp 71-94 Complex pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems with spatially varying parameters K.M. Page, P.K. Maini, N.A.M. Monk pp 95-115 Stability of an oscillator chain from high-frequency initial conditions A.J. Lichtenberg, V.V. Mirnov pp 116-133 Procedures for calculating reversible one-dimensional cellular automata J.C. Seck Tuoh Mora, S.V. Chapa Vergara, G. Juarez Martinez, H.V. McIntosh pp 134-141 Discrete breathers in thermal equilibrium: distributions and energy gaps M. Eleftheriou, S. Flach pp 142-154 ------ Subject: Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2:2 From: kuang Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:34:27 -0700 Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (MBE) Volume 2, Number 2, April, 2005 Frederic Gibou, Doron Levy, Carlos Cardenas, Pingyu Liu and Arthur Boyer Partial Differential Equations-Based Segmentation for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning pp. 209-226. Nicolas Bacaer and Cheikh Sokhna A reaction-diffusion system modeling the spread of resistance to an antimalarial drug pp. 227-238. Arthur D. Lander, Qing Nie and Frederic Y. M. Wan Spatially Distributed Morphogen Production and Morphogen Gradient Formation pp. 239-262. Arni S.R. Srinivasa RAO and Masayuki Kakehashi Incubation-time distribution in back-calculation applied to HIV/AIDS data in India pp. 263-277. Eric Ruggieri and Sebastian J. Schreiber The Dynamics of the Schoener-Polis-Holt model of Intra-Guild Predation pp. 279-288. Azmy S. Ackleh, H. T. Banks, Keng Deng and Shuhua Hu Parameter Estimation in a Coupled System of Nonlinear Size-Structured Populations pp. 289-315. Dong-Uk Hwang, S. Boccaletti, Y. Moreno and R. Lopez-Ruiz Thresholds for Epidemic Outbreaks in Finite Scale-Free Networks pp. 317-327. Guirong Jiang, Qishao Lu and Linping Peng Impulsive Ecological Control of a Stage-Structured Pest Management System pp. 329 -344. Stephen A. Gourley and Yang Kuang Two-Species Competition with High Dispersal: The Winning Strategy pp. 345-362. Helen Moore and Weiqing Gu A mathematical model for treatment-resistant mutations of HIV pp. 363-380. John D. Nagy The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Cancer: A Review of Mathematical Models of Necrosis and Tumor Cell Diversity pp. 381-418.