Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 06, Number 09 May 15, 2006 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: School, Neural Networks in Classification, Regression and Data Mining Colloquium, Geometrically Non-Linear Vibrations of Structures PhD Position, inverse problems in biophysics Contents, Nonlinearity 19:5 Contents, Nonlinearity 19:6 Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 3:3 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: School, Neural Networks in Classification, Regression and Data Mining From: "Jorge M. Santos" Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:04:23 +0100 SUMMER SCHOOL NN2006 NEURAL NETWORKS in CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING July 3-7, 2006, ISEP - Porto, Portugal http://www.nn.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 (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, Professor of Computer Science, School of Informatics, Edinburgh University, U.K.) Craig Saunders (Senior Lecturer, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, 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) COURSE CONTENTS Neural networks (NN) have become a very important tool in classification and regression tasks. The applications are nowadays abundant, e.g. in the engineering, economy and biology areas. The Summer School on NN is dedicated to explain relevant NN paradigms, namely multilayer perceptrons (MLP), radial basis function networks (RBF) and support vector machines (SVM) used for classification and regression tasks, illustrated with applications to real data. Specific topics are also presented, namely Spiking Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, Modular Neural Networks and Data Mining using NN. Classes include practical sessions with appropriate software tools. The trainee has, therefore, the opportunity to apply the taught concepts and become conversant with a broad range of NN topics and applications. A special workshop session will provide a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects. Official language is English. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME A preliminary programme and further information about the classes are available at the school webpage ( http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt) 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. 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: Colloquium, Geometrically Non-Linear Vibrations of Structures From: Pedro Ribeiro Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 14:15:28 +0100 Dear Colleagues, We would like to announce the EUROMECH Colloquium 483, "Geometrically Non-Linear Vibrations of Structures", which will take place in Porto, Portugal, the 9-11 July, 2007. In this colloquium, studies that consider geometrical non-linearity alone or coupled with non-linearities of other origins are welcome, and analytical, numerical or experimental analyses are of interest. Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail, either to nlvs2007@fe.up.pt or to pmleal@fe.up.pt, in pdf format. A special issue of the Journal of Sound and Vibration will be published with papers presented at the colloquium. Please consult www.fe.up.pt/nlvs2007 for further information. We are looking forward to meeting you in Porto in July 2007. Sincerely, Pedro Leal Ribeiro DEMEGI/IDMEC Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Doutor Roberto Frias, s/n 4200-465 Porto Portugal Fax: + 351 22 508 14 45 e-mail: nlvs2007@fe.up.pt; pmleal@fe.up.pt ------ Subject: PhD Position, inverse problems in biophysics From: "Prof. Heinz W. Engl" Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 17:53:42 +0200 (CEST) We have a funded PhD Position for 3 years (available immediately) in a joint doctoral college with biophysicists. The position is at the Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (www.ricam.oeaw.ac.at), information about the project can be found at http://www.wissen.jku.at/mobaindex.htm We are looking for a mathematician (with a master's degree) with an interest in inverse problems keen to work in an interdisciplinary environment with biologists; the main task is to do PhD research, but there is also some coursework introducing the student to relevant fields of biophysics. Expressions of interest with relevant information by EMail to heinz.engl@jku.au ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 19:5 From: Liz Martin Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:19:33 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 19, Issue 5, May 2006 All articles are free for 30 days after publication on the web. This issue is available at: URL: http://stacks.iop.org/0951-7715/19/i=5 Pages: 999-1218 PAPERS 999 Forced symmetry breaking from {\em SO}(3) to {\em SO}(2) for rotating waves on a sphere A N Comanici 1021 Intermittency, metastability and coarse graining for coupled deterministic--stochastic lattice systems M A Katsoulakis, A J Majda and A Sopasakis 1049 Diffusion and stability in perturbed non-convex integrable systems M Guzzo, E Lega and C Froeschl\'e 1069 Arithmetical properties of a family of irrational piecewise rotations F Vivaldi and J H Lowenstein 1099 Partial preservation of frequencies in KAM theory M B Sevryuk 1141 Arnol'd tongues and quantum accelerator modes I Guarneri, L Rebuzzini and S Fishman 1165 Periodic solutions of second order differential equations with an obstacle M-Y Jiang 1185 Sinai--Ruelle--Bowen measures for weakly expanding maps V Pinheiro 1201 Phase transitions for the multifractal analysis of self-similar measures B Testud ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 19:6 From: Liz Martin Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:57:08 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2006 All articles are free for 30 days after publication on the web. This issue is available at: URL: http://stacks.iop.org/0951-7715/19/i=6 Pages: 1219-1494 PAPERS 1219 New {\em a priori} estimate for the Boltzmann--Enskog equation S-Y Ha and S E Noh 1233 Ruelle--Pollicott resonances for real analytic hyperbolic maps F Faure and N Roy 1253 Existence of travelling wave solutions in delayed reaction--diffusion systems with applications to diffusion--competition systems W-T Li, G Lin and S Ruan 1275 $P$-index theory for linear Hamiltonian systems and multiple solutions for nonlinear Hamiltonian systems Y Dong 1295 Integrable ultra-discrete equations and singularity analysis N Joshi and S Lafortune 1313 Discrete Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics on Lie groupoids J C Marrero, D Mart\' \i n de Diego and E Mart\' \i nez 1349 On the inviscid limit for the solutions of two-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations with slip-type boundary conditions W M Rusin 1365 Kinks in dipole chains J M Speight and Y Zolotaryuk 1383 Parabolic Julia sets are polynomial time computable M Braverman 1403 Hyperbolic outer billiards: a first example D Genin 1415 The inner equation for one and a half degrees of freedom rapidly forced Hamiltonian systems I Baldom\'a 1447 Jump-defects in the nonlinear Schr\"odinger model and other non-relativistic field theories E Corrigan and C Zambon 1471 Quantum--classical correspondence on compact phase space M Horvat, T Prosen and M Degli Esposti ------ Subject: Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 3:3 From: Yang Kuang Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 00:32:45 -0700 Linda J.S. Allen and Pauline van den Driessche, Stochastic epidemic models with a backward bifurcation, pp. 445. Romulus Breban, Ian McGowan, Chad Topaz, Elissa J. Schwartz, Peter Anton and Sally Blower, Modeling the potential impact of rectal microbicides to reduce HIV transmission in bathhouses, pp. 459. Zhilan Feng and Carlos Castillo-Chavez, The influence of infectious diseases on population genetics, pp. 467. Abba B. Gumel, C C. McCluskey and James Watmough, An SVEIR model for assessing potential impact of an imperfect anti-SARS vaccine, pp. 485. Hongbin Guo and Michael Y. Li, Global dynamics of a staged progression model for infectious diseases, pp. 513. Robert G. McLeod, John F. Brewster, Abba B. Gumel and Dean A. Slonowsky, Sensitivity and uncertainty analyses for a SARS model with time-varying inputs and outputs, pp. 527. Brandy Rapatski, Petra Klepac, Stephen Dueck, Maoxing Liu and Leda I. Weiss, Mathematical epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Cuba during the period 1986-2000, pp. 545. Eunha Shim, A note on epidemic models with infective immigrants and vaccination, pp. 557.