Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 07, Number 02 February 1, 2007 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Conference, Neurosciences today Advanced course on Analysis and Control of Complex Networks Lectureship in Nonlinear Dynamics of Optical Nanostructures Faculty Posts in Applied Mathematics Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - A 18:1 Contents, The Journal of Modern Dynamics 1:2 Contents, Nonlinearity 20:2 Contents, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control 12:1 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 226:2 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: Conference, Neurosciences today From: Societa' Italiana Caos e Complessita' Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:20:40 -0700 Neuroscience today: neuronal functional diversity and collective behaviors Sponsored by COST B27 action ENOC (Electric Neuronal Oscillations and Cognition) and ECRF (Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze) and with the sponsorship of SICC - Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity CONFERENCE VENUE: Firenze, Accademia dei Georgofili (Logge degli Uffizi) DATE: March 26-28, 2007 Non-temporal information can be carried by time patterns in neuronal spiking and neural assemblies can be identified by collective (synchronous) firing rather than only by transient change in the firing rate. According to models and experiments, this arrangement would allow fast dynamics, robustness, flexibility, and coexistence of several assemblies in the same cortical region. Synchronization, spiking accuracy, modulation of spiking rate, and spatiotemporal coherent patterning may therefore represent distinct but interacting computational codes for functionally diverse neurons. The issue is crucial in neuroscience, especially when neuronal functions are related to high-order brain processes or signals recorded in man. A close scrutiny of the available conventional and non-conventional models and their extension to high-order neuronal operations, including "cognitive" processes, is now in order. Purposes of the Conference are: 1. to focus on the integration of diverse neurons (e.g. segregated and selective for sensory input or motor organization) into networks behaving as functional assemblies; 2. to set research guidelines for the combination of (sub)cellular and system brain research; 3. to promote integrated approaches. Scientific committee: F.Tito Arecchi, Department of Physics, University of Firenze, (Italy) Luigi Fortuna, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e dei Sistemi, University of Catania (Italy) Ljupco Kocarev, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, University of Skopje, Skopje (FYR of Macedonia) Juergen Kurths, Department of Physics, University of Potsdam (Germany) Walter G. Sannita, Department of Motor Science, University of Genova (Italy) and Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Stony Brook (USA) Invited lecturers include: Henry Abarbanel, San Diego, USA; Moshe Abeles, Jerusalem, IL; Frantisek Baluska, Bonn, D; Eshel Ben-Jacob, Tel-Aviv University, IL; Giovanni Berlucchi Verona, I; Adrian Burgess, Swansea, UK; Luciano Fadiga, Ferrara, I; John Gruzelier, London, UK; Riitta Hari Helsinki, SF; Jorn Hounsgaard, Copenhagen, DK; John G. R. Jefferys, Birmingham, UK; Jordan Pop-Jordanov, Skopje, MK; Wlodek Klonowski, Warsaw, PL; Ljupco Kocarev Skopje, MK; Juergen Kurths, Potsdam, D; Lamberto Maffei, Pisa, I; Hans Mohler, Zurich, CH; Concetta Morrone, Milano, I; Tomaso Poggio, Cambridge, USA; Gert Pfurtscheller, Graz, A; Wolf Singer, Frankfurt/Main, D; M. Barry Sterman, Los Angeles, USA. Further information on the conference and the on-line application form can be found on the conference website at http://www.inoa.it/neurosciencetoday or by contacting the organizers (E-mail:riccardo.meucci@inoa.it). ------ Subject: Advanced course on Analysis and Control of Complex Networks From: Societa' Italiana Caos e Complessita' Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:39:48 -0700 Analysis and Control of Complex Networks Milan, Italy, May 24-26, 2007. International advanced course jointly organised by: SICC - Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity, and DEI, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and co-organised by FEEM - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. The course is primarily oriented to young researchers and PhD students interested in the study of networks of nonlinear dynamical systems. The main topics of the course include networks topology, emergence of collective behaviours, various forms of synchronization, clusters and pattern formation, and control of synchronization. Aim of the course is to cover both introductory and advanced topics. The basic theory and methods will be introduced through examples and applications in various fields of Science and Engineering, by O. Popovych, Research Centre J\374lich, J\374lich, Germany, while specific topics dealing with particular theoretical aspects or applications will be described by the other lecturers. Lecturers: Oleksandr Popovych (J\374lich, Germany) Stefano Boccaletti (Firenze, Italy) Martin Hasler (Lausanne, Switzerland) Vito Latora (Catania, Italy) Carlo Piccardi (Milano, Italy) Antonello Provenzale (Torino, Italy) Alessandro Villa (Grenoble, France) Participants will be allowed to download papers, manuscripts and teaching material from a reserved area of the web page, and will receive a certificate of attendance. Further information on the program and the online application form can be found on the website at http://www.elet.polimi.it/corsi/ACCN2007 ------ Subject: Lectureship in Nonlinear Dynamics of Optical Nanostructures From: Sebastian Wieczorek Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:27:21 -0000 (GMT) LECTURESHIP in Mathematical Modelling and Nonlinear Dynamics of Optical Nanodevices, post number S77-AM Mathematics Research Institute, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Exeter Deadline for applications is 9 February 2007. The first three years of this permanent appointment are funded by a Research Fellowship under the Great Western Research Initiative, during which time the Fellow/Lecturer will work on the project Modeling and Nonlinear Dynamics of Optical Nanodevices: Nanolasers and Photonic Nanocircuits with Sebastian Wieczorek and Bernd Krauskopf (University of Bristol). Candidates with a background in Applied Mathematics are invited to apply; experience in Dynamical Systems or Optical Modelling would be an advantage. Further details and application forms are available at http://www.secam.ex.ac.uk/index.php?nav=79 http://www.admin.ex.ac.uk/personnel/jobs.php?action=job&areaid=4&jid=2498 Informal inquiries are welcome by email to Dr Sebastian Wieczorek: S.M.Wieczorek@exeter.ac.uk Professor Bernd Krauskopf: B.Krauskopf@bristol.ac.uk ------ Subject: Faculty Posts in Applied Mathematics From: Charlie Elliott Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:47:00 +0000 Three Faculty Posts in Applied Mathematics University of Sussex, Department of Mathematics The University of Sussex is seeking applications for three permanent Lectureships in Applied Mathematics. One appointment may be made at the Senior Lecturer level depending on the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate. The Department achieved grade 5 in Applied Mathematics in the 2001 RAE and is committed to excellence in research. We are now seeking to make strong appointments in the following areas: mathematics applied to biology or medicine partial differential equations and applied analysis numerical analysis and scientific computation Outstanding applications from other fields in Applied Mathematics cognate to the existing strengths of the Department are welcome. The level of appointment for each post will depend on the successful candidate's qualifications and experience. Closing date: 13 February 2007. Interview Date: w/c 05 March 2007. Start Date: The posts are available from 1 August 2007 or at another date by mutual agreement preferably before 1 October 2007. For full further particulars and application details see our jobs website www.sussex.ac.uk/jobs Or email recruitment@sussex.ac.uk Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Charlie Elliott (Head of Department); Telephone: 01273 678111 (within the UK), +44 1273 678111 (from abroad); Email: c.m.elliott@sussex.ac.uk ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - A 18:1 From: Zemin Zeng Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:02:41 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (DCDS-A) http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/dcdsA/online.jsp Volume: 18, Number: 1, May 2007 Table of Contents: Terence Tao Pages : 1 - 14 Two remarks on the generalised Korteweg de-Vries equation Giulio Schimperna, Antonio Segatti and Ulisse Stefanelli Pages : 15- 38 Well-posedness and long-time behavior for a class of doubly nonlinear equations Meera G. Mainkar and Cynthia E. Will Pages : 39 - 52 Examples of Anosov Lie algebras Shan Ma and Chengkui Zhong Pages : 53 - 70 The attractors for weakly damped non-autonomous hyperbolic equations with a new class of external forces Jong-Shenq Guo Pages : 71 - 84 Blow-up behavior for a quasilinear parabolic equation with nonlinear boundary condition David Gomez-Ullate, Niky Kamran and Robert Milson Pages : 85 - 106 Structure theorems for linear and non-linear differential operators admitting invariant polynomial subspaces Francesca Faraci and Alexandru Kristaly Pages : 107 - 120 One-dimensional scalar field equations involving an oscillatory nonlinear term Sun-Sig Byun, Hongbin Chen, Mijoung Kim and Lihe Wang Pages : 121 -134 L^p Regularity theory for linear elliptic systems Dirk Aeyels, Filip De Smet and Bavo Langerock Pages : 135 - 157 Area contraction in the presence of first integrals and almost global convergence Milena Stanislavova and Atanas Stefanov Pages : 159 - 186 Attractors for the viscous Camassa-Holm equation Luis Barreira and Claudia Valls Pages : 187 - 197 Holder Grobman--Hartman linearization Karma Dajani and Charlene Kalle Pages : 199 - 217 Random beta-expansions with deleted digits Giuseppe Buttazzo, Luigi De Pascale and Ilaria Fragala Pages : 219 -220 Erratum ------ Subject: Contents, The Journal of Modern Dynamics 1:2 From: Zemin Zeng Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:59:09 -0500 The Journal of Modern Dynamics (JMD) Volume: 1, Number: 2, April 2007 http://aimsciences.org/journals/JMD/jmd_online.jsp Table of Contents: Daniel Genin and Serge Tabachnikov Pages : 155- 173 On configuration spaces of plane polygons, sub-Riemannian geometry and periodic orbits of outer billiards Scott Crass Pages : 175 - 203 Solving the heptic by iteration in two dimensions: Geometry and dynamics under Klein's group of order 168 Mahesh G. Nerurkar and Hector J. Sussmann Pages : 205 - 253 Construction of ergodic cocycles that are fundamental solutions to linear systems of a special form Frederic Faure Pages : 255 - 285 Prequantum chaos: Resonances of the prequantum cat map Anatole Katok and Federico Rodriguez Hertz Pages : 287 - 300 Uniqueness of large invariant measures for Z^k actions with Cartan homotopy data Oliver Butterley and Carlangelo Liverani Pages : 301 - 322 Smooth Anosov flows: correlation spectra and stability ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 20:2 From: Liz Martin Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:36:15 +0000 NONLINEARITY Volume 20, Issue 2, February 2007 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: URL: http://stacks.iop.org/0951-7715/20/i=2 Pages: 221--522 PAPERS 221 Partial reductions of Hamiltonian flows and Hess--Appel'rot systems on {\it SO}({\it n}) B Jovanovi\'c 241 Homoclinic tangencies of arbitrarily high orders in conservative and dissipative two-dimensional maps S Gonchenko, D Turaev and L Shilnikov 277 Characterization of stable kinetic equilibria of rigid, dipolar rod ensembles for coupled dipole--dipole and Maier--Saupe potentials H Zhou, H Wang, Q Wang and M G Forest 299 Finite time rupture for thin films under van der Waals forces K-S Chou and Y-C Kwong 319 Travelling waves in Hamiltonian systems on 2D lattices with nearest neighbour interactions M Fe\v ckan and V M Rothos 343 On travelling wave solutions of the Burgers--Korteweg--de Vries equation Z Feng 357 Algebraically decaying pulses in a Ginzburg--Landau system with a neutrally stable mode A Doelman, G Hek and N Valkhoff 391 Coding trees and boundaries of attracting basins for some entire maps K Bara\'nski and B Karpi\'nska 417 The quasi-periodic Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcation H W Broer, H Han{\ss}mann and J Hoo 461 The black solitons of one-dimensional NLS equations L Di Menza and C Gallo 497 Uniqueness of central foliations of geodesic flows for compact surfaces without conjugate points J Barbosa Gomes and R O Ruggiero 517 Notes on perturbations of the incompressible 3D Euler equations D Chae ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control 12:1 From: Romas Baronas Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:00:34 +0200 Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, ISSN 1392-5113, Volume 12, Number 1, 2007 A free on-line edition is available at: http://www.lana.lt/journal/issues.php TABLE OF CONTENTS Parabolic Nonlinear Second Order Slip Reynolds Equation: Approximation and Existence, Pages 3-20. K. Ait Hadi. Free Convection from a Vertical Permeable Circular Cone with Pressure Work and Non-Uniform Surface Temperature, Pages 21-32. Md.M. Alam, M.A. Alim, Md.M.K. Chowdhury. On the Abel Equation of the Second Kind with Sinusoidal Forcing, Pages 33-44. G. Alobaidi, R. Mallier. Numerical Solutions for Micropolar Transport Phenomena over a Nonlinear Stretching Sheet, Pages 45-63. R. Bhargava, S. Sharma, H.S. Takhar, O.A. B\351g, P. Bhargava. An Empirical Study for the Estimation of Autoregressive Hilbertian Processes by Wavelet Packet Method, Pages 65-75. A. Laukaitis. Modelling of a One-Sex Age-Structured Population Dynamics with Child Care, Pages 77-94. S. Repsys, V. Skakauskas. Econometrical Modelling of Profit Tax Revenue, Pages 95-112. R. Rudzkis, E. Maciulaityte. Effect of Variable Thermal Conductivity on Buoyant Convection in a Cavity with Internal Heat Generation, Pages 113-122. S. Sivasankaran. Dynamical Complexity in Some Ecological Models: Effect of Toxin Production by Phytoplankton, Pages 123-138. R.K. Upadhyay, R.K. Naji, N. Kumari. ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 226:2 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 06:18:25 -0500 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 226, Issue 2, Pages 107-214 (15 February 2007) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2007-997739997-643512 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial board Page ii 2) Chaotic electrical activity of living ????-cells in the mouse pancreatic islet Pages 107-116 Takahiro Kanno, Takaya Miyano, Isao Tokuda, Juris Galvanovskis and Makoto Wakui 3) Pattern-generating travelling waves in a discrete multicellular system with lateral inhibition Pages 117-128 Erik Plahte and Leiv \330yehaug 4) The development of travelling waves in cubic auto-catalysis with different rates of diffusion Pages 129-135 Yuanwei Qi 5) Quantum properties of a cyclic structure based on tripolar fields Pages 136-143 V.N. Yershov 6) On the elimination of the sweeping interactions from theories of hydrodynamic turbulence Pages 151-172 Eleftherios Gkioulekas 7) On a class of implicit solutions of the continuity and Euler's equations for 1D systems with long range interactions, II Pages 173-180 Philippe Choquard and Jo\353l Wagner 8) Generalising the Kuramoto model for the study of neuronal synchronisation in the brain Pages 181-196 D. Cumin and C.P. Unsworth 9) Complex dynamic behavior in a viral model with delayed immune response Pages 197-208 Kaifa Wang, Wendi Wang, Haiyan Pang and Xianning Liu 10) Transport of particles caused by correlated disorder-noise couplings Pages 209-214 Jing-hui Li 11) A note on the correspondence of an immersed boundary method incorporating thermal fluctuations with Stokesian???Brownian dynamics Pages 144-150 Paul J. Atzberger