Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 06, Number 06 April 1, 2006 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Symposium on atoms and molecules in external electromagnetic fields Summer school, Modelling Across the Scales 5th International School, Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics School on Neural Networks in Classification Regression and Data Mining Summer School in Delay Differential Equations and Applications New journal, Advances in Mathematics of Communications New journal, Journal of Modern Dynamics 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: Symposium on atoms and molecules in external electromagnetic fields From: Cristel Chandre Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:09:17 +0100 Symposium ILLUMINYATING ATOMS AND MOLECULES -- MAY 19, 2006 Webpage: http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~chandre/illuminyating.htm This one day symposium is devoted to the study of atoms and molecules in external electromagnetic fields in the classical, semi-classical and quantal settings. There will be five one hour seminars (D. Delande, M. Joyeux, J. Main, L. Perotti and T. Uzer). Atomic and molecular physicists, nonlinear dynamicists and mathematicians are invited to attend. Location: Amphi 5, CPT Marseille Centre de Physique Theorique, UMR 6207 Luminy - case 907 F-13288 Marseille cedex 09, France Contact: C. Chandre, chandre@cpt.univ-mrs.fr ------ Subject: Summer school, Modelling Across the Scales From: "EK Weeks, Engineering Mathematics" Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:31:05 +0000 The Bath Institute for Complex Systems (BICS) is running an EPSRC funded complexity summer school on the theme of "Modelling Across the Scales" aimed at postgraduate students, in Mathematics, Engineering and the Sciences as well as anyone else interested in the area. The course will cover a range of analytical and numerical techniques used in multi-scale modelling with examples taken from real world applications. Topics include: Modelling and analysis of multiple scale problems (Dr. J. Zimmer, Bath). Modelling and simulation of microstructure evolution (Prof. C. Carstensen, Berlin). Multi-scale analysis and stochastic differential equations (Prof. R. Kuske, UBC). Multi-scale behaviour in the geo-sciences (Prof. H. Mulhaus, Queensland), with speakers including: Prof. D. Almond (Bath), Prof. F. Herrmann (UBC) and Dr. C. Mitchell (Bath). Further input from: Prof. C. Budd (Bath), Prof. G. Hunt (Bath) and Dr. R. Scheichl (Bath). The course will be held on the 23rd-26th June 2006 at the University of Bath. Some bursaries are available for non-EPSRC funded students. You should have heard about the related EPSRC summer school on Complex Networks to be held at Bristol University the following week. We are happy to make arrangements for anyone who wishes to attend both courses. For further details and registration information see the website: www.bath.ac.uk/math-sci/bics/summerschool/ or contact Mr. Andrew Hill: A.D.C.Hill@bath.ac.uk ------ Subject: 5th International School, Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics From: Societa' Italiana Caos e Complessita' Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:07:22 -0700 5th International School TOPICS IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICS Analysis, bifurcations and control of piecewise-smooth and hybrid dynamical systems Naples, Italy, 18-20 September 2006 Organized by SICC - Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity The 5th International School "Topics in Non linear Dynamics: Analysis, bifurcations and control of piecewise-smooth and hybrid dynamical systems", organized by the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity (SICC) in cooperation with the Nonlinear Systems and Control group of the University of Naples Federico II and the EU Project SICONOS, is primarily oriented to young and experienced researchers, PhD students and industrialists interested in the theory and applications of piecewise-smooth, switched and hybrid 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 Engineering, Physics, Economics and Biology. The main topics of the school include: - Modelling and analysis of nonsmooth Dynamical Systems - Bifurcations of nonsmooth and hybrid dynamical systems - Numerical Analysis and Continuation methods - Control - Applications People regularly registered at the school will be allowed to download papers, manuscripts and teaching materials from a reserved area of the web page. Invited lecturers include: * Alan Champneys University of Bristol, UK * Arne Nordmark KTH, Sweden * Enric Fossas UPC, Barcelona Spain * Bernard Brogliato INRIA, France * Petri Piiroinen University of Bristol, UK * Sergio Rinaldi Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Gianluca Setti Universita'di Ferrara, Italy * Martin Homer University of Bristol, UK * Yuri Kuznetsov University of Utrecht, The Netherlands * Piotr Kowalczyk University of Exeter, UK * Gerard Olivar Universidad Nacional de Colombia * Mario di Bernardo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy * Kanat Camlibel, Technical U. Eindhoven, The Netherlands Further information on the school and the on-line application form can be found on the school website at http://www.dis.unina.it:8080/pwsschool or by contacting the organizers (E-mail: mario.dibernardo@unina.it). ------ Subject: School on Neural Networks in Classification Regression and Data Mining From: "Jorge M. Santos" Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:49:46 -0000 SUMMER SCHOOL NN2006 NEURAL NETWORKS in CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING July 3-7, 2006, ISEP - Porto, Portugal http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt email: nn-2006@isep.ipp.pt GENERAL INFORMATION The Summer School will be held at Porto, Portugal, jointly organized by the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Porto (ISEP) and the Faculty of Engineering, Porto University (FEUP). Following last year experience, this year's edition also includes a WORKSHOP SESSION providing a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (PROVISIONAL) * Carlos Soares (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economy, University of Porto, Portugal) * Christopher Bishop (Professor, Assistant Director, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K.) * Danilo Mandic (Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, U.K.) * Fernando Sereno (Adjunct Professor, School of Education, Porto Polythecnic Institute, Portugal) * Joaquim Marques de Sa (Associate Professor, Dept. Electr. and Comp. Engineering, Fac. of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal) * Luis Alexandre (Assistant Professor, Beira Interior University, Portugal) * Mark Embrecht (Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI Troy, New York, U.S.A.) * Noelia Sanchez Maro\~no (Assistant Professor, Coruna University, Spain) * Paulo Cortez (Assistant Professor, University of Minho, Portugal) * Robert Legenstein (Assistant Professor, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Graz University of Technology, Austria) * Steve Gunn (Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, U.K.) IMPORTANT DEADLINES Early Registration: 15 May 2006 Hotel booking: 15 June 2006 Summer School: 3-7 July 2006 All participants are required to register prior to the start of the School - until the June 15 - even if you choose to pay the late registration fee at the registration desk. Please note that only a LIMITED number of participants can be accepted. LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LOC) - Ana Cristina Meira - Assistant, Dept. Mathematics, ISEP, Portugal - Jorge M. Santos - Assistant, Dept. Mathematics, ISEP, Portugal - Rui Chibante - Assistant, Dept. Mathematics, ISEP, Portugal CONTACT ADDRESS Local Organizing Committee (LOC) - Summer School NN2006 Departamento de Matematica Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida 431 4200-072 PORTO / PORTUGAL Email: nn-2006@isep.ipp.pt NN2006 Secretariat Ms. Gabriela Afonso Email: gafonso@fe.up.pt Programme Chair: Prof. Joaquim Marques de Sa Tel. 225081828 - Email: jmsa@fe.up.pt ------ Subject: Summer School in Delay Differential Equations and Applications From: torelli@univ.trieste.it Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:29:41 +0100 The 2006 edition of the Dobbiaco Summer School on Numerical Analysis is entitled Delay Differential Equations and Applications Dobbiaco (BZ - Italy), June 26-30, 2006 and is organized by Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Universita di Trieste, Italy and The Institut fur Technische Mathematik, Geometrie und Bauinformatik - Universitat Innsbruck, Austria in cooperation with the Cultural Centre "Grandhotel Dobbiaco", Dobbiaco, Italy. The school consists of two series of lectures by Gabor Stepan, Department of Applied Machanics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary and Marino Zennaro, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Universita di Trieste, Italy. Informations are available at the address: http://www.dmi.units.it/~torelli/scuola2006.html The organizers: Alfredo Bellen, Lucio Torelli, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Universita di Trieste, Italy, Alexander Ostermann, The Institut fur Technische Mathematik, Geometrie und Bauinformatik - Universitat Innsbruck, Austria Hansjorg Viertler, Kultuzentrum Grandhotel Toblach, Italy. ------ Subject: New journal, Advances in Mathematics of Communications From: Marcus Greferath Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:35:17 +0000 Dear Colleague, this is to inform you and interested colleagues of yours about a new journal named ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICS OF COMMUNICATIONS. This new journal is published by the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in cooperation with Shandong University (China). To guarantee the journal's immediate relevance AIMS and its sponsors have agreed to offer several hundreds of gift subscriptions (print and/or online) to major institutes and departments, worldwide, for several years. **Aims and Scope of the journal: AMC is thought to be a forum for original research articles in the broad area of mathematics of communications. It will cover all mathematical work that is expected to be relevant to applications in communications technology. For this reason we expect and encourage submissions from various areas of mathematics including -- but not limited to -- algebra (pure or applied), algebraic geometry, coding theory, cryptology, combinatorics, finite geometry, and number theory. Importantly, we also aim to cover the algorithmic and computational aspects of the disciplines involved. All mathematics and computer science contributions will be welcome provided they are of appropriate depth and relevance, and link to the above-mentioned applications in communications technology. **The editorial board: The current list of editors consists of many internationally renowned scholars, known particularly for their successful scientific endeavour in pure and applied mathematics: Alexander Barg, Albrecht Beutelspacher, Ian Blake, Eimear Byrne, Yvo Desmedt, Jintai Ding, Steven Dougherty, Iwan Duursma, Veerle Fack, Patrick Fitzpatrick, Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, Tom Hoeholdt, Thomas Honold, Jianya Liu, Neal Koblitz, Ivan Landjev, Simon Litsyn, Sergio Lopez-Permouth, Michael O'Sullivan, Joachim Rosenthal, Renate Scheidler, Stefan Schmidt, Hovav Shacham, Neil Sloane, Patrick Sole, Andreas Stein, Douglas Stinson, Mario Szegedy, Edlyn Teske, Henk van Tilborg, Judy Walker, Harold Ward, Xiaoyun Wang and Gilles Zemor. **Information for authors: Highest quality submissions should be sent directly to the EIC Marcus Greferath at the University College Dublin (greferath@maths.ucd.ie). Manuscripts in pdfformat will be welcome and will be evaluated on the basis of at least 2 review reports. For accepted manuscripts the authors will be asked to provide latex sources in AMSTeX or AMSLaTeX format. **Subscription information: AMC will appear in 4 issues per year, presumably with 200 pages each, with the inaugural issue in early 2007. The current subscription rates (for 2007) are US$ 220 for print and online, and US$200 for online access only. These prices are subject to changes in forthcoming years. If you are interested please contact the EIC Marcus Greferath (greferath@maths.ucd.ie) or the publisher Shouchuan Hu (general@aimsciences.org) directly. Note that there are a number of gift subscriptions for institutions where AMC is of high interest. For today I remain with best regards. Please contact me with any questions that you might have. Marcus Greferath (greferath@maths.ucd.ie). ------ Subject: New journal, Journal of Modern Dynamics From: Svetlana Katok Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:25:10 -0500 JOURNAL OF MODERN DYNAMICS, announcement and call for papers This new quarterly journal is scheduled to inaugurate in January 2007. JMD is published by the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) with the support of the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University. JMD is dedicated to publishing high quality research articles in active and promising areas of the theory of dynamical systems with particular emphasis on the mutual interaction between dynamics and other major areas of mathematical research, including: Number theory, Symplectic geometry, Differential geometry, Rigidity, Quantum chaos, Teichmuller theory, Geometric group theory, Harmonic analysis. All papers should contain complete proofs of the principal results. There are no restrictions on the size of an individual paper. Papers with a comprehensive treatment of an important area including a detailed and illuminating presentation of necessary background will be given a favorable consideration. All submissions to Journal of Modern Dynamics should be sent electronically either to jmd@math.psu.edu or submitted directly to any editor with a copy to jmd@math.psu.edu All papers are reviewed, and recommendations by the editor are put before the full editorial board for approval. Usually a decision will be communicated to the author within 2 months fo submission, and the editorial board is committed to rendering a decision within 6 months in all cases. Visit the JMD website at http://www.math.psu.edu/jmd for more details. Editorial Board of the Journal of Modern Dynamics EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Anatole Katok EDITORS Dmitry Dolgopyat Giovanni Forni Rostislav Grigorchuk Dmitry Kleinbock Raphael Krikorian Gregory Margulis Jens Marklof Leonid Polterovich Ralf Spatzier Amie Wilkinson Anton Zorich MANAGING EDITORS Boris Hasselblatt Svetlana Katok