Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 05, Number 08 May 1, 2005 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Conference on Dynamics, Topology and Computations in Poland Several research/graduate students positions in Hong Kong Lecturer Position at University of Reading Lecturer Positions at University of Birmingham Postdoctoral Position at RWTH Aachen Postdoctoral Position at ENSTA, Paris New book, Stochastic Switching Systems: Analysis and Design Contents, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 3:2 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 203:1-2 Contents, Dynamical Systems: An International Journal 20:1 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: Conference on Dynamics, Topology and Computations in Poland From: Piotr Zgliczynski Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:47:22 +0200 (METDST) DYNAMICS, TOPOLOGY AND COMPUTATIONS (BEDLEWO, POLAND, JUNE 4-10, 2006) The conference is devoted to computational aspects of dynamics and topology. The themes of the conference include, but are not limited to: classical numerical methods for dynamical ODEs and PDEs, algorithms for rigorous numerics of dynamical systems, topological methods of dynamical systems as tools in developing numerical algorithms, numerical algorithms for topological invariants, KAM theory and rigorous numerics, variational methods, applications to celestial mechanics, numerical experiments in dynamics. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE :Luigi Chierchia (Roma, Italy) , Michael Dellnitz (Paderborn, Germany), Robert Ghrist (Illinois, USA) Urs Kirchgraber (Zurich, Switzerland), Hiroshi Kokubu (Kyoto, Japan), Carles Simo (Barcelona, Spain) Roman Srzednicki (Krak"w, Poland) , Warwick Tucker (Uppsala, Sweden) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE :Konstantin Mischaikow (Atlanta, USA) , Marian Mrozek (Krak"w, Poland), Piotr Zgliczydski (Krak"w, Poland) VENUE: The venue of the conference will be the Mathematical Research and Conference Center in Bedlewo, Poland. The Center consists of a neo-gothic palace, a new hotel with conference facilities and a lovely surrounding park. FEES: The expected cost (accommodation, meals and conference fee) should not exceed 300-350 euro. The exact amount will be given in the Second Announcement. SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT will be issued in September 2005. In order to receive the Second Announcement by e-mail, please preregister at the conference website: http://www.ii.uj.edu.pl/DyToComp2006/ CONTACT PERSON: Piotr Zgliczydski Jagiellonian University Institute of Computer Science ul. Nawojki 11 30-072 Krakow Poland e-mail: umzglicz@cyf-kr.edu.pl. ------ Subject: Several research/graduate students positions in Hong Kong From: Michael Small Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:13:13 +0800 Research Assistant/Research Associate - "Characterisation of Chaos and Synchronisation in Biomedical Time Series with Novel Surrogate Techniques" - "Small World Network Models of the 2003 SARS Outbreak" - "Surrogate Data Method and Nonlinear Dynamical System Identification from Time Series" Vacancies exist for Research Assistants or Research Associates (roughly 12 months each) to work on the above projects in the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Applicants must have an undergraduate honours degree and preferably a Masters degree in mathematics, physics or engineering. Related research experience is highly desirable. In particular, a good research record in nonlinear time series analysis and an interest in biomedical applications would be useful. Further information about the department and the relevant research areas may be found on the following pages http://small.eie.polyu.edu.hk/ http://small.eie.polyu.edu.hk/research.html http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~cktse/NSR/ Salary is competitive and will be commensurate with experience. For further information and to apply, please contact: Dr Michael Small Electronic and Information Engineering Hong Kong Polytechnic University Tel.: +852 2766 4744 email: ensmall@polyu.edu.hk Your applications should include a CV and a description of your research experience and interests. Research Students Department of Electronic and Information Engineering Hong Kong Polytechnic University I am also looking for potential research students. If you wish to study for either MPhil or PhD degree, and are interested in some of the above research areas, please contact me. In particular, you should have a good honours degree (or masters degree) in physics, mathematics or engineering. You should also have appropriate interest and experience in mathematical and computational methods. As above, details of my research interests can be found on: http://small.eie.polyu.edu.hk/ http://small.eie.polyu.edu.hk/research.html If interested, please contact me by email, and include a 1-2 page CV and indicate your intended research interests. ------ Subject: Lecturer Position at University of Reading From: Peter Sweby Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:03:13 +0100 The University of Reading School of Mathematics, Meteorology and Physics Lecturer in Applications of Mathematics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Ref AC0508 Grade B - 27,989 to 35,883 GBP per annum Full-time, Permanent This is an excellent opportunity for a lecturer to work in an area that will enhance interactions between the School's research groups in Meteorology and Applied Mathematics. The Department of Meteorology and the Department of Mathematics have strong research groups that extend across a whole range of spatial scales, from the urban boundary layer to the global atmosphere-ocean system, and include theoretical developments, numerical modelling and the exploitation of observations. You will be expected to engage with existing activities and will build a research presence by acquiring external funding and play an active role in the high quality undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programme. Possible areas of expertise include the development of novel computational techniques for modelling fluid flow, fluid dynamics and the theory of scattering of electromagnetic radiation You will ideally hold a PhD, and have several years of post-doctoral experience in an area where techniques in mathematics are applied to problems in atmospheric and ocean science. Informal enquiries to Professor Keith Shine on (+44) 118 378 8405 or email k.p.shine@reading.ac.uk Application forms and further particulars are available from the Personnel Office, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading, RG6 6AH telephone 0118 378 6771 (voicemail). Email Personnel@reading.ac.uk giving full name and address. Application forms and further particulars are also available from www.reading.ac.uk/Jobs . Closing date for applications Tuesday 31 May 2005. Please quote Reference. ------ Subject: Lecturer Positions at University of Birmingham From: Warren R Smith Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:58:15 +0100 (BST) Lectureships in Applied Mathematics (3 Posts) - Ref: S36881 Applications are invited from strong researchers in any area of Applied Mathematics, whose research complements and adds breadth to the Applied Mathematics Group, particularly in the areas of numerical and computational mathematics and mathematical biology. Informal enquiries to Professor J R Blake, tel: 0121 414 6577, e-mail J.R.Blake@bham.ac.uk, Professor R Mathias, tel: 0121 414 6582, e-mail mathiasr@maths.bham.ac.uk or Professor R T Curtis (Acting Head of School), tel: 0121 414 6581, e-mail: R.T.Curtis@bham.ac.uk Starting salary for all posts will be on scale 23,643 - 35,883 pounds a year depending on experience and qualifications. The posts are available from September 2005. Application forms (returnable by 10th June 2005) and details from Personnel Services, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT. Tel: 0121 415 9000, web: www.personnel.bham.ac.uk/vacancies ------ Subject: Postdoctoral Position at RWTH Aachen From: Christof Eck Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:57:57 +0200 PostDoc Position in Partial Differential Equations The research group "Computational Materials Engineering" at the RWTH Aachen, the biggest engineering university in Germany, offers a research position at the postdoc level for a mathematician with a good knowledge in partial differential equations and numerical methods for partial differential equations. Programming experience would be an advantage. The position is connected to a research project in the framework of the focus program 1095 "Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Multiscale Problems" of the German Research Foundation. The topic of the project is the numerical and analytical investigation of multiscale--structure evolution at semiconductor surfaces. The project is carried out in cooperation with the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the University Erlangen--N\"urnberg. Payment is according to the German tarif group Bat IIa. The position is available for one year. Pleas send your application before 1st of July. For more details and applications please contact: Prof. Dr. Heike Emmerich "Computational Materials Engineering" GHI, Mauerstrasse 5 RWTH Aachen 52064 Aachen phone: ++49 241 80 98331 email: emmerich@ghi.rwth-aachen.de http://www.ghi.rwth-aachen.de or Dr. Ch. Eck Institute for Applied Mathematics University Erlangen Martensstr. 3 91058 Erlangen phone: ++49 9131 85 27863 email: eck@am.uni-erlangen.de The RWTH Aachen is an equal opportunity employer. Equally qualified women and disabled candidates will be preferred in the decision. ------ Subject: Postdoctoral Position at ENSTA, Paris From: Patrick Ciarlet Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:16:40 +0100 A postdoctoral position is available in ENSTA, Paris, France, from October 2005. The duration is one year. The applicant will study the motion of charged particles, subject to an exterior or a self-consistent electromagnetic field, with emphasis on numerical experiments. In particular, the successful candidate must have expertise in numerical analysis and practical scientific computing. If you want to apply or need more informations, please contact us. Patrick Ciarlet mailto: Patrick.Ciarlet@ensta.fr ENSTA/Dept of Applied Mathematics 32, boulevard Victor 75739 Paris Cedex 15 France Tel/Fax +33 1 4552 5478/5282 http://www.ensta.fr/~ciarlet/eng_index.html ------ Subject: New book, Stochastic Switching Systems: Analysis and Design From: "Gorenshteyn, Regina, Birkhauser US" Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:50:31 -0400 Stochastic Switching Systems Analysis and Design El-Kebir Boukas, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, Canada Forthcoming - June 2005 /Approx. 413 pp. /Approx. 7 illus. / Hardcover / $89.95 (tent.) / ISBN: 0-8176-3782-6 / Birkhaeuser Series - Control Engineering Stochastic switching systems represent an interesting class of systems that can be used to model a variety of systems having abrupt random changes in their dynamics. Such systems may be found in the fields of manufacturing, communications, aerospace, power, and economics. This work presents stochastic switching systems and provides up-to-date methods and techniques for the analysis and design of various control systems with or without uncertainties. An introductory chapter highlights basics concepts and practical models, which are then used to solve more advanced problems throughout the book. Included are many numerical examples as well as LMI analysis methods and design approaches to supplement the developed results. Specific topics covered include: * The stochastic stability problem and its robustness * The stabilization problem--using different controllers such as the state feedback, output feedback, and observer-based output feedback--and its robustness * Systems with external disturbances--different approaches are developed to reject the external disturbances * The filtering problem for the class of systems with Markovian jump parameters; Kalman and H-infinity filtering problems are treated and LMI conditions are developed to synthesize the gains of these filters * Systems with singular Markovian jump parameters "Stochastic Switching Systems" may be used as a supplementary textbook for graduate-level engineering courses, or as a reference for control engineers, graduate students, and researchers in systems and control. Prerequisites include elementary courses in matrix theory, probability, optimization techniques, and control systems theory. Table of Contents: Preface.- Introduction.- Stability Problem.- Stabilization Problem.- H-infinity Control Problem.- Filtering Problem.- Singular Stochastic Switching Systems.- Mathematical Review.- References.- Index For ordering information, please visit: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-40109-22-36290317-0,00.html ------ Subject: Contents, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 3:2 From: Communications in Math Sciences Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:02:06 -0500 (CDT) Communications in Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Vol 3, No.2, 2005 to be published in June 2005 Abstract is available at www.math.wisc.edu/~jcms full articles will be available at www.intlpress.com/CMS * Tong Li and Hailiang Liu Stability of a Traffic Flow Model with Nonconvex Relaxation * Athanasios Tzavaras Relative Entropy in Hyperbolic Relaxation * Christophe Berthon Stability of the MUSCL Schemes for the Euler Equations * E.A. Carlen and S. Ulusoy An Entropy Dissipation-Entropy Estimate for a Thin Film Type Equation * Bazvan Fetecau and Doron Levy Approximate Model Equations for Water Waves * Renchang Li and Zhaojun Bai Structure-Preserving Model Reduction Using a Krylov Subspace Projection Formulation * Hailiang Liu, Hui Zhang and Pingwen Zhang Axial Symmetry and Classification of Stationary Solutions of Doi-Onsager Equation on the Sphere with Maier-Saupe Potential * Jan Haskovec and Christian Schmeiser Transport in Semiconductors at Saturated Velocities * Natalia B. Petrovskaya Two Types of Solution Overshoots in Discontinuous Galerkin Discretization Schemes * Jack Xin and Yingyong Qi An Orthogonal Discrete Auditory Transform ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 203:1-2 From: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:43:48 +0100 (BST) For more information about this journal visit: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/physd Spatial suppression of error catastrophe in a growing pattern S. Toyabe, M. Sano pp 1-8 On optimal canonical variables in the theory of ideal fluid with free surface P.M. Lushnikov, V.E. Zakharov pp 9-29 Analysis of nonlocal neural fields for both general and gamma-distributed connectivities A. Hutt, F.M. Atay pp 30-54 Navier-Stokes limit of Jeffreys type flows S. Gatti, C. Giorgi, V. Pata pp 55-79 Analytic unit quadrature signals with nonlinear phase T. Qian, Q. Chen, L. Li pp 80-87 Spatio-temporal dynamics in the origin of genetic information P.J. Kim, H. Jeong pp 88-99 Diblock copolymer/homopolymer blends: Derivation of a density functional theory R. Choksi, X. Ren pp 100-119 ------ Subject: Contents, Dynamical Systems: An International Journal 20:1 From: "SARA Alerting" Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 06:19:52 -0500 Volume 20 Number 1/March 2005 of Dynamical Systems: An International Journal is now available on the Taylor & Francis web site at http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk This issue contains: Special Issue: Special issue on mechanics and space mission design Edited by Michael Dellnitz and Jerrold E. Marsden Special issue on mechanics and space mission design p. 1 Michael Dellnitz, Jerrold E. Marsden Geometric mechanics and the dynamics of asteroid pairs p. 3 H. Cendra, J. E. Marsden The Restricted Hill Full 4-Body Problem: application to spacecraft motion about binary asteroids p. 23 D. J. Scheeres, J. Bellerose A variational proof of existence of transit orbits in the restricted three-body problem p. 45 R. Moeckel High-order expansions of invariant manifolds of libration point orbits with applications to mission design p. 59 J. J. 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