Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 06, Number 15 August 15, 2006 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Call for participants, Midwest Quantitative Biology Conference Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics Workshop on Stochastic Evolution Equations Radon ICIAM Grants Professorship in Ecological Modelling New Book, Traffic Flow on Networks Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 219:2 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 220:1 Contents, Nonlinearity 19:9 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B 6:6 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: Call for participants, Midwest Quantitative Biology Conference From: Guowei Wei Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:28:56 -0400 (EDT) The Midwest Quantitative Biology Conference will be held from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, 2006, at the Mission Point Resort, Mackinac Island, Michigan. The objective is to bring together researchers from mathematics and biological sciences to exchange ideas and to foster collaborations. The conference is organized and sponsored by the Department of Mathematics, and by the Quantitative Biology & Modeling Initiative (QBMI) at Michigan State University (MSU). It is also sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), The Institute for Mathematics and its Application (IMA), and The Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI). Partial financial support is available for some participants. We particularly welcome junior faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students. Women and under-represented minorities are encouraged to participate and apply for support. Please refer to our web site http://www.math.msu.edu/MQBC for detailed information. ------ Subject: Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics From: "Paulo F. A. Mancera" Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:48:58 -0300 Dear Colleague, On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the II Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD2), I invite you to attend at the Conference. The Conference will be held at University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, July 16-20, 2007. More information about the Conference is available in the conference website: http://www.cmpd2.unicamp.br , or, please, do not hesitate to contact the Conference Secretariat at cmpd2@ime.unicamp.br The Organizing Committee is waiting for your contribution. We are also expecting your collaboration do spread the word about our conference among your partners/scientific societies. The Organizing Committee is looking forward to see you at Campinas. Sincerely yours, *H. M. Yang *Conference Chair ------ Subject: Workshop on Stochastic Evolution Equations From: Wolf-Juergen Beyn Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 23:53:29 +0200 (CEST) WORKSHOP ON Numerics and Theory for Stochastic Evolution Equations November 22 - November 24, 2006 Department of Mathematics, Bielefeld University TOPICS: Stochastic evolution equations are widely used to model systems under the influence of random processes with applications in population genetics, turbulence modelling in fluid mechanics, in porous media theory, and in many other fields. Typically such real-life problems involve strong nonlinearities. In the last years there have been very promising developments for SDE's both in analysis and numerics. We mention new existence results for weak and stong solutions, the Kolmogorov approach, small noise limits and the theory of large deviations. In particular, numerical concepts which turned out to be powerful in the deterministic case have been tranferred to the stochastic world, among these are higher order methods and adaptive methods based on a-posteriori error estimation, stochastic Galerkin as well as multiscale methods. The aim of the workshop is to review these recent trends focusing on the constructive and computational aspects. The invited main speakers are leading experts in their fields and will present an overview of their recent research, directed also towards non-specialists and those entering the field. ORGANIZERS: W.-J Beyn, M. Roeckner (Bielefeld), and Ch. Rohde (Stuttgart) INVITED SPEAKERS: (confirmed) N. Dirr (MPI Leipzig) W. Grecksch (Halle) D. Higham (Glasgow) P. Imkeller (HU Berlin) G. Karniadakis (Providence) J. U. Kim (Blacksburg) P. Kloeden (Frankfurt) S. Kuksin (Edinburgh) S. Larsson (Goeteborg) G. Lord (Edinburgh) S. Maier-Paape (Aachen) S. Malham (Edinburgh) A. Rascanu (Iasi) K. Ritter (Darmstadt) B. Schmalfuss (Paderborn) T. Shardlow (Manchester) W. Stannat (Darmstadt) A. Stuart (Warwick) T. Zhang (Manchester) CONTRIBUTIONS: The conference also features a limited number of contributed 20 min-talks. Title and abstract of a prospective talk should be sent by email to the organizers (jrottman@math.uni-bielefeld.de) til Oct. 12. Notification of Acceptance: until October 26, 2006. Further detailed information on the conference can be found at http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~beyn/workshop2006/ CONTACT ADDRESS: J. Rottmann-Matthes, email: jrottman@math.uni-bielefeld.de The workshop is part of the conference programme of the DFG-sponsored CRC 701 "Spectral Structures and Topological Methods in Mathematics" at Bielefeld University. ------ Subject: Radon ICIAM Grants From: "Prof. Heinz W. Engl" Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:31:38 +0200 (CEST) Radon - ICIAM - Grants The Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences announces up to 10 grants which cover the cost of * a stay of two weeks at RICAM in Linz right before ICIAM 07. * the stay at ICIAM 07 in Zurich. Travel (as cheap as possible), registration to ICIAM and accommodation and subsistence in Linz and Zurich are covered by these grants. Applications are invited from mathematicians born 1971 or later, who live and work in Central and Eastern Europe including those EU-Countries that joined the Union in 2005. Preference is given to applicants whose scientific expertise is close to the fields represented at RICAM. Applications should be sent by September 30, 2006 to radon_iciam@ricam.oeaw.ac.at These applications should include a short statement about scientific interests and achievements, a CV and a list of publications. Also, two letters of support should directly be sent to the e-mail address given. Successful candidates will be notified around October 15, 2006 and should then submit an abstract to ICIAM. The grant will only be awarded if this abstract is accepted for presentation. ------ Subject: Professorship in Ecological Modelling From: Horst Malchow Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:01:24 +0200 In a joint appointment, the Institute of Environmental Systems Research at the University of Osnabrueck invites applications for a W3-Professorship (Full Professor) in Ecological Modelling associated with the position as Head of the Department of Ecological Modelling at the UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle in the Helmholtz Association to commence at the earliest date. Being an international competence centre for environmental research, UFZ is investigating the interaction between man and environment in used and disturbed landscapes. UFZ develops concepts, methods and systemic solutions to assure a healthy environment for future generations. The Department of Ecological Modelling (OESA) at the UFZ is one of the largest research teams world-wide devoted to ecological modelling for biodiversity research. The successful candidate will carry out research work at the UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle. The new professor is a full member of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Osnabrueck and will contribute to the Bachelor and Master programmes in Applied Systems Science. Teaching is required two hours per week. The position will be located in Leipzig. The new professor is expected to establish an internationally renowned research programme on the development of populations, species communities and biodiversity, management and conservation issues of terrestrial ecology. The basic conditions are in accordance with 25 and 72 Abs. 7 S. 3 of the University Law of Lower Saxony. Research Topics: * development of understanding of complex ecological systems * development of innovative methodologies, concepts, models and tools for integrated management of ecological systems in terrestrial landscapes * interdisciplinary coupling of ecological modelling and system analysis with ecological experiments, environmental monitoring and socio-economic research Candidates should have: * an international track record in ecological modelling and systems analysis * a long-term professional experience with developing and using a broad range of approaches of model building, analysis, and integration as well as decision-support * experience with both theoretical and applied modelling projects * experience in interdisciplinary modelling * experience in the direction of large research teams Female candidates are encouraged to apply, and will be selected if suitably qualified. Seriously handicapped applicants will take precedence if qualified. Please send your application with photo, curriculum vitae, description of scientific career and teaching experience, list of publications, copies of five important publications, attested copies of certificates, as well as an additional paper explaining your motivation to apply by 21st September, 2006 to the Dean of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Prof. Dr. P. Meyer-Nieberg, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany. Information on the UFZ can be found on http://www.ufz.de and on the study programmes "Applied Systems Science" on http://www.usf.uos.de. For more details contact the Director of the Institute of Environmental Systems Research Prof. Dr. M. Matthies at matthies@uos.de. It is important to note that applications have to be considered by the supervisory board of the UFZ Centre for Environmental Research. A joint commission of representatives of the University of Osnabrueck and the UFZ will take part in the interviews. ------ Subject: New Book, Traffic Flow on Networks From: Hu_Shouchuan Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:09:15 -0500 "Traffic Flow on Networks", by M. Garavello and B. Piccoli, is published as volume I of the AIMS Book Series in Applied Math. by the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences. This unique book is devoted to macroscopic models for traffic on a network, with possible applications to car traffic, telecommunications and supply-chains. Starting from classical and recent fluid dynamic approaches to describe car traffic on a single road, the book develops an original theory to deal with arbitrarily complex networks. Results are illustrated with numerical simulations and may be used in real-time traffic control. The book is easy reading and is suitable for teaching. Full contents, the introduction chapter and order information can be obtained at http://aimsciences.org/books/am/index.html ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 219:2 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:27:38 -0400 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 219, Issue 2, Pages 101-186 (15 July 2006) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2006-997809997-628944 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Integral scaling behavior of different morphologies of 3D xenon crystals Pages 101-110 H.M. Singer and J.H. Bilgram 2) Diversity-induced synchronized oscillations in close-to-threshold excitable elements arranged on regular networks: Effects of network topology Pages 111-119 I. Vragovic, E. Louis, C. Degli Esposti Boschi and G. Ortega 3) Analytic study of shell models of turbulence Pages 120-141 Peter Constantin, Boris Levant and Edriss S. Titi 4) Boundary effects on localized structures in spatially extended systems Pages 142-151 A. Yadav and D.A. Browne 5) Principles of biological organization: Local-global negotiation based on material cause Pages 152-167 Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Taichi Haruna and Koji Sawa 6) Bianchi type I universe with viscous fluid and a term: A qualitative analysis Pages 168-176 Bijan Saha and V. Rikhvitsky 7) Decay to the nonequilibrium steady state of the thermal diffusion in a tilted periodic potential Pages 177-183 T. Monnai, A. Sugita, J. Hirashima and K. Nakamura ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 220:1 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:23:28 -0400 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 220, Issue 1, Pages 1-98 (1 August 2006) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2006-997799998-629551 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Proof of a Spectral Property related to the singularity formation for the critical nonlinear Schrodinger equation Pages 1-13 Gadi Fibich, Frank Merle and Pierre Raphael 2) Self-guiding of femtosecond light pulses in condensed media: Plasma generation versus chromatic dispersion Pages 14-30 S. Skupin and L. Berge 3) Composite solitary waves in three-component scalar field theory: Three-body low-energy scattering Pages 31-53 A. Alonso Izquierdo and J. Mateos Guilarte 4) Fractal mechanics Pages 54-68 Marcelo Epstein and Jedrzej Sniatycki 5) Length-scale estimates for the LANS- equations in terms of the Reynolds number Pages 69-78 J.D. Gibbon and D.D. Holm 6) Uniform -stability estimate of the Boltzmann equation near a local Maxwellian Pages 79-97 Seung-Yeal Ha and Seok-Bae Yun ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 19:9 From: Liz Martin Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:28:13 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 19, Issue 9, September 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=9 Pages: 2005-2210 PAPERS 2005 How chaotic are strange non-chaotic attractors? P Glendinning, T H J\"ager and G Keller 2023 Uncertainty estimates and $L_2$ bounds for the Kuramoto--Sivashinsky equation J C Bronski and T N Gambill 2041 Symbolic dynamics of almost collision orbits and skew products of symplectic maps S Bolotin 2065 Invariant manifolds of $L_3$ and horseshoe motion in the restricted three-body problem E Barrab\'es and M Oll\'e 2091 Hopf bifurcation calculations for scalar neutral delay differential equations M Weedermann 2103 Guided waves in a multi-layered optical structure P J Torres 2115 The gradient-holonomic integrability analysis of a Witham-type nonlinear dynamical model for a relaxing medium with spatial memory A K Prykarpatsky and M M Prytula 2123 An optical Hamiltonian and obstructions to integrability L T Butler 2137 Limit measures for affine cellular automata on topological Markov subgroups A Maass, S Mart\'{\i}nez and M Sobottka 2149 Bifurcations of global reinjection orbits near a saddle-node Hopf bifurcation B Krauskopf and B E Oldeman 2169 Well-posedness and asymptotic behaviour for the convection problem in $\Bbb{R}^n$ L C F Ferreira and E J Villamizar Roa 2193 Phase transitions in a piecewise expanding coupled map lattice with linear nearest neighbour coupling J-B Bardet and G Keller ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B 6:6 From: Hu_Shouchuan Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:55:02 -0500 The American Institute of Mathematical Sciences is proud to announce that its applied math journal Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B (DCDS-B) will be fully listed in Science Citation Index to become an SCI journal. Details can be found at http://aimsciences.org/journals/dcdsB/index.htm Author(s): T. Caraballo, P.E. Kloeden and B. Schmalfuss Pages : 1199 - 1212 Title: STABILIZATION OF STATIONARY SOLUTIONS OF EVOLUTION EQUATIONS BY NOISE Author(s): A. Doubova, E. Fernandez-Cara, M. Gonzalez-Burgos and J.H. Ortega Pages : 1213 - 1238 Title: A GEOMETRIC INVERSE PROBLEM FOR THE BOUSSINESQ SYSTEM Author(s): Radek Erban and Hyung Ju Hwang Pages : 1239 - 1260 Title: GLOBAL EXISTENCE RESULTS FOR COMPLEX HYPERBOLIC MODELS OF BACTERIAL CHEMOTAXIS Author(s): A. Haro and R. de la Llave Pages : 1261 - 1300 Title: A PARAMETERIZATION METHOD FOR THE COMPUTATION OF INVARIANT TORI AND THEIR WHISKERS IN QUASI-PERIODIC MAPS: NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS Author(s): Guirong Jiang and Qishao Lu Pages : 1301 - 1320 Title: THE DYNAMICS OF A PREY-PREDATOR MODEL WITH IMPULSIVE STATE FEEDBACK CONTROL Author(s): Marcos Lizana and Julio Marin Pages : 1321 - 1338 Title: ON THE DYNAMICS OF A RATIO DEPENDENT PREDATOR-PREY SYSTEM WITH DIFFUSION AND DELAY Author(s): Stanislaw Migorski Pages : 1339 - 1356 Title: HEMIVARIATIONAL INEQUALITY FOR A FRICTIONAL CONTACT PROBLEM IN ELASTO-PIEZOELECTRICITY Author(s): Juan Sanchez, Marta Net and Jose M. Vega Pages : 1357 - 1380 Title: AMPLITUDE EQUATIONS CLOSE TO A TRIPLE-(+1) BIFURCATION POINT OF D4-SYMMETRIC PERIODIC ORBITS IN O(2)-EQUIVARIANT SYSTEMS Author(s): Jie Shen and Li-Lian Wang Pages : 1381 - 1402 Title: LAGUERRE AND COMPOSITE LEGENDRE-LAGUERRE DUAL-PETROV-GALERKIN METHODS FOR THIRD-ORDER EQUATIONS Author(s): M. Phani Sudheer, Ravi S. Nanjundiah and A. S. Vasudeva Murthy Pages : 1403 - 1416 Title: REVISITING THE SLOW MANIFOLD OF THE LORENZ-KRISHNAMURTHY QUINTET Author(s): Liancheng Wang and Sean Ellermeyer Pages : 1417 - 1430 Title: HIV INFECTION AND CD4+ T CELL DYNAMICS Author(s): K.H. Wong, Chi Kin Chan and H.W.J. Lee Pages : 1431 - 1444 Title: OPTIMAL FEEDBACK PRODUCTION FOR A SINGLE-ECHELON SUPPLY CHAIN