Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 06, Number 12 July 1, 2006 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures PhD student position at LGP-ENIT Tarbes, France PhD studentship available at University of Reading PhD available at University of Reading Two temporary Lectureships at University of Reading Contents, Nonlinearity 19:7 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 218:2 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: SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures From: "Kirsten Wilden" Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:02:28 -0400 SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures University of Washington, Seattle, Washington September 9-12, 2006 Registration and Program Now Available! Invited Plenary Speakers: Frederic Dias, ENS, France Benjamin J. Eggleton, University of Sydney, Australia Mariana Haragus, Universite de Franche-Comte, France Lene Hau, Harvard University Philip K. Maini, University of Oxford, United Kingdom James McWilliams, University of California, Los Angeles Bjorn Sandstede, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Hotel Reservation Deadline: July 8, 2006 Pre-Registration Deadline: August 9, 2006 Registration and the preliminary program for this conference are available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/nw06/ For additional information, contact the SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org ------ Subject: PhD student position at LGP-ENIT Tarbes, France From: Olivier Pantal Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:37:11 +0200 The LGP ENI Tarbes in France is seeking for a PhD student on the following subject : "Numerical implementation of dynamic crack propagation using the XFEM approach". The candidate must have a Master degree, and must be interested in C++ programming and numerical implementation. The aim of this work is to develop a new module withing the DynELA finite element code to simulate crack propagation under dynamic loading (crash, impact). The candidate must speak french. More information can be found at the following URL : http://pantale.free.fr ------ Subject: PhD studentship available University of Reading UK From: "Peter K. Sweby" Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:38:56 +0100 Departments of Food Biosciences and Mathematics BBSRC CASE PhD Studentship Lipoproteins, diet and genotype: Mathematical models of the interaction of lipoproteins with hepatocytes. Supervisors: Dr. Anne-Marie Minihane, Prof. Christine Williams, and Dr. Peter Sweby. A PhD student is sought to undertake a project between the Departments of Food Biosciences and of Mathematics at the University of Reading and Unilever Research. The project is to develop mathematical models of the interaction between blood lipids and liver cells. The project will focus on developing realistic models of liver cells and lipid metabolism in order to investigate the impact of diet and genotype on heart disease risk. The aim of the project is to have a better understanding of the mechanisms by which diet influences the risk of heart disease. The studentship will be based at the University of Reading, but the student will also spend time at Unilever's R&D facilities in Bedford, UK within the Systems Biology of Lipid Metabolism group. The studentship commences on the 1st October 2006 and is available to UK residents only. The funding is for three years at BBSRC studentship rates plus an additional contribution from the industrial sponsor, providing a tax-free stipend of \24315,500 per annum. Applicants should have or expect to have a first or upper second class honours degree, or equivalent, in Mathematics, Physics or another relevant subject and with an interest in biological systems. For informal enquiries please contact Dr. Anne-Marie Minihane (a.m.minhane@reading.ac.uk) or by telephone on 0118 378 8719. Applicants should send a CV and names of two academic referees to Dr A Minihane, School of Food Biosciences, The University of Reading, PO Box 226, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AP. The closing date for applications is Friday 7th July 2006 ------ Subject: PhD available at University of Reading From: "Peter K. Sweby" Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:11:40 +0100 Fluid Dynamics on a Super-Turing Computer A graduate with a high degree of mathematical skill in vector analysis and calculus is wanted to implement fluid dynamics on a software simulation of the perspex machine with a view to firmware implementation in FPGA and eventual hardware implementation on a dedicated chip. For further information, including contact details for the prospective supervisors, please see http://www.bookofparagon.com/News/News_00011.htm Dr Peter K Sweby Head of Department Department of Mathematics School of Mathematics, Meteorology & Physics The University of Reading Whiteknights PO Box 220 Reading RG6 6AX +44 118 378 8675 ------ Subject: Two temporary Lectureships at University of Reading From: "Peter K. Sweby" Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:08:46 +0100 The University of Reading School of Mathematics, Meteorology and Physics Department of Mathematics We are seeking two excellent candidates to take up temporary Lectureships in Applied Mathematics. Mathematics is a central part of the School of Mathematics, Meteorology and Physics. Applied Mathematics at Reading has particular strengths in Applied and Numerical Analysis. Temporary Lecturer in Applied Mathematics- Ref AC0633 Lecturer A, Spine Point 8 \24324,352 per annum Full-time, fixed term until May 2007 This position is available from 1st October 2006 until 31st May 2007 and is to cover Professor Chandler-Wilde's teaching duties during his receipt of a Leverhulme Fellowship. This is an ideal for someone having recently completed a PhD in an area of Applied Mathematics. Some previous teaching/lecturing experience is desirable. Temporary Lecturer in Applied Mathematics- Ref AC0634 Lecturer A, \24324,352-\24327,929 per annum Full-time, fixed term until September 2007 This position is available from 1st October 2006 until 30th September 2007. Applicants should ideally have a PhD in an area of Applied Mathematics. Previous teaching/lecturing experience is highly desirable. Informal enquiries may be made to the Head of Department, Dr Peter Sweby (tel 0118 378 8675, e-mail p.k.sweby@reading.ac.uk) or Prof Simon Chandler-Wilde (Professor of Applied Mathematics, tel 0118 378 5017, e-mail s.n.chandler-wilde@reading.ac.uk). For further information about the department see http://www.maths.rdg.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 7 July 2006. Please quote the Reference Number of the position for which you are applying. Dr Peter K Sweby Head of Department Department of Mathematics School of Mathematics, Meteorology & Physics The University of Reading Whiteknights PO Box 220 Reading RG6 6AX +44 118 378 8675 ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 19:7 From: Liz Martin Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:24:21 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 19, Issue 7, July 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=7 Pages: 1495-1696 PAPERS 1495 Smooth attractors for strongly damped wave equations V Pata and S Zelik 1507 Lie point symmetries and an approximate solution for the Schr\"odinger--Newton equations O Robertshaw and P Tod 1515 Schr\"odinger--Chern--Simons vortex dynamics S Krusch and P Sutcliffe 1535 Chaotic behaviour in a singularly perturbed system I B Vivancos and A A Minzoni 1553 On the $L^1$-solutions of refinement equations with positive coefficients X-G He and Z-Y Wen 1565 Sigma models on curved space and bubble refraction in doped antiferromagnets J M Speight 1581 Domain of analyticity of normalizing transformations M Saprykina 1601 Stability in Cohen--Grossberg-type bidirectional associative memory neural networks with time-varying delays J Cao and Q Song 1619 The stationary 2D Smoluchowski equation in strong homogeneous flow A Zarnescu 1629 Smooth conjugacy between S-unimodal maps S Li and W Shen 1635 Slow diffeomorphisms of a manifold with $\mathbb{T}^2$ action R Fuchs 1643 Relationships between $\tau$-functions and Fredholm determinant expressions for gap probabilities in random matrix theory P Desrosiers and P J Forrester 1657 Computable conditions for the occurrence of non-uniform hyperbolicity in families of one-dimensional maps S Luzzatto and H Takahasi ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 218:2 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:40:14 -0400 For more information about this journal visit: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/physd A bi-Hamiltonian structure for the integrable, discrete non-linear Schrodinger system Pages 105-121 Nicholas M. Ercolani and Guadalupe I. Lozano Robust and ubiquitous on-off intermittency in active coupling Pages 122-130 Moto Kamiura and Yukio-Pegio Gunji Dynamics of the Lorenz-Robbins system with control Pages 131-138 Debin Huang and Lizhen Zhang Effects of parametric disorder on a stationary bifurcation Pages 139-157 M. Hammele, S. Schuler and W. Zimmermann Rayleigh-Taylor instability of pulled versus pushed fronts Pages 158-166 D. Lima, W. van Saarloos and A. De Wit Two mutually loss-coupled lasers featuring astable multivibrator Pages 167-176 Almaz Mustafin Dynamic Parrondo's paradox Pages 177-184 J.S. Canovas, A. Linero and D. Peralta-Salas On chirality and turbulent dispersion Pages 185-190 A.M. Reynolds Existence of finite-order meromorphic solutions as a detector of integrability in difference equations Pages 191-203 R.G. Halburd and R.J. Korhonen