Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 07, Number 09 May 15, 2007 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Workshop on Mathematical Neuroscience International Conference on Algebraic Biology Studentship available in Hong Kong Professorships Recruitment in China Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 4:3 Contents, Advances in Mathematics of Communications 1:2 Contents, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control 12:2 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 228:2 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 229:1 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 229:2 Contents, Nonlinearity 20:6 Nonlinearity High-Profile Articles of 2006 Call for papers: ASR Special Issue on Astrodynamics 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: Workshop on Mathematical Neuroscience From: Stephen Coombes Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 09:00:01 +0100 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS WORKSHOP ON MATHEMATICAL NEUROSCIENCE Including two focus sessions: 1) AUDITION, 2) PARKINSONIAN TREMOR AND DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada September 16-19, 2007 SPONSORED BY NSERC (CRM), MITACS AND MATHEON CONFERENCE URL: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Neuro07/index_e.shtml Organizers: S. Coombes (Nottingham), A. Longtin (Ottawa), J. Rubin (Pittsburgh) The goal of this workshop is to provide an overview of the current state of research in mathematical approaches to neuroscience. This vibrant area, seeded by successes in understanding nerve action potentials, dendritic processing, and the neural basis of EEG, has moved on to encompass increasingly sophisticated tools of modern applied mathematics. Included among these are Evans functions techniques for studying wave stability and bifurcation in tissue level models of synaptic and EEG activity, heteroclinic cycling in theories of olfactory coding, the use of geometric singular perturbation theory in understanding rhythmogenesis, stochastic differential equations describing inherent sources of neuronal noise, spike-density approaches to modelling network evolution, weakly nonlinear analysis of pattern formation, and the role of canards in organising neural dynamics. IMPORTANTLY, the workshop will also address the novel application of such techniques in two half-day sessions, one on AUDITION and the other on PARKINSONIAN TREMOR AND DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION. Hence, participants will be drawn from both the mathematical and experimental sciences. A further aim of this workshop will be to encourage other applied mathematicians into this thriving area of research where their work can have an impact on both experimental and computational neuroscience. Indeed a major challenge for the mathematical neuroscience community is to complement new biological understanding of network function with a mathematical understanding of dynamics for computation. In particular this will require studies that go beyond the mathematically tractable cases of highly symmetric and homogeneous networks and for us to understand the role that noise, inhomogeneities, delays, and feedback have to play in shaping the dynamic states of biological neural networks. ------ Subject: International Conference on Algebraic Biology From: Temur Kutsia Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 22:22:51 +0200 ****************************************************************** * * * AB2007 * * Second International Conference on Algebraic Biology * * * * July 2-4, 2007 * * Castle of Hagenberg, Austria * * * * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * * * http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/ab2007/ * * * ****************************************************************** CONFERENCE PROGRAMM: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/about/conferences/ab2007/program.html AIMS AND SCOPE: The Second International Conference on Algebraic Biology, AB'07, is an international forum to promote discussion and interaction between researchers who intend to apply symbolic computation - computer algebra and computational logic - to various issues in biology. The conference covers all aspects of applications of algebraic and logic methods in biology, addressing * molecular sequence analysis * molecular structure analysis * molecular evolution * genomics * proteomics * gene regulation * gene expression * gene ontology * network Inference * mathematical modeling * model identification * system analysis and design * system verification * synthetic biological systems and other problems in biology with symbolic methods including, but not restricted to: * polynomial methods * group theoretical methods * rewriting methods * automated reasoning methods * automata methods * formal language methods * combinatoric methods * symbolic-numeric algorithms (sequential, parallel, distributed, grid processing) FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/ab2007/ ------ Subject: Studentship available in Hong Kong From: Michael Small Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:30:48 +0800 MPhil/PhD Studentship Available I am looking for a reasearch student for either a two-year MPhil or three-year PhD studentship. Applicants intested in all areas of applied nonlinear time series analysis and/or complex networks will be considered. You should have a strong background in mathematics, physics or engineering and highly competent/confident in programming and numerical analysis. My current research projects include studies of cortical synapse dynamics, neuronal information processing, epidemiology on complex networks, and general methods for the analysis of nonlinear time series. If you are interested, please email me with a brief description of yourself (a CV) and your preferred area(s) of research. Further information about the department and the relevant research areas may be found on the following pages http://small.eie.polyu.edu.hk/ http://small.eie.polyu.edu.hk/research.html http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~cktse/NSR/ For further information and to apply, please contact: Dr Michael Small Electronic and Information Engineering Hong Kong Polytechnic University Tel.: +852 2766 4744 email: ensmall@polyu.edu.hk ------ Subject: Professorships Recruitment in China From: lsqmath Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 16:22:25 +0800 (CST) Science Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology Mathematical Professorships Recruitment Science Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, China (HIT, www.hit.edu.cn) invites applications for assistant, associate and full professor positions in all areas of Mathematics. The mission of the mathematical department, Science Research Center of HIT, is to support excellent mathematicians to promote and facilitate basic research on mathematics and its applications to other branches of sciences. Competitive salary, benefit and excellent research environment will be commensurate with experiences and qualifications. Applicants should have a PhD degree in Mathematics or statistics by the start date of the appointment and exhibit evidence of strong research potential. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. The level of appointment will depend on the successful candidate's research qualifications and experience. The initial appointment is for a period of three years, renewable upon evaluation. Applicants should submit electronically a full CV(in English) that includes education, employment, achievements, publication and referees lists, a description of research for first batch of review to: Ms. Yifang Zhang Research Academy of Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2 Yi-Kuang Street, Nan-Gang District, Harbin, 150080, China Email: zhangyf607@hit.edu.cn Phone: +86 451 86402559 Fax: +86 451 86402588 To learn more about the positions, please browse the following websites(in Chinese only) or feel free to contact Ms.Yifang Zhang: http://rsc.hit.edu.cn/rcyj/ http://www.edu.cn/heilongjiang_106/20061025/t20061025_201912.shtml ------ Subject: Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 4:3 From: kuang Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 22:43:00 -0700 MBE content of Volume 4, Number 2, April, 2007 http://www.mbejournal.org/ListPapers.aspx P. Bai, H. T. Banks, S. Dediu, A. Y. Govan, M. Last, A. L. Lloyd, H. K. Nguyen, M. S. Olufsen, G. Rempala and B.D. Slenning, Stochastic and deterministic models for agricultural production networks, pp. 373-402. H. T. Banks, S. Dediu and H. K. Nguyen, Sensitivity of dynamical systems to parameters in a convex subset of a topological vector space, pp. 403-430. Maria P. Cassinari, Maria Groppi and Claudio Tebaldi, Effects of predation efficiencies on the dynamics of a tritrophic food chain, pp. 431-456. Gerardo Chowell, Catherine E. Ammon, Nicolas W. Hengartner and James M. Hyman, Estimating the reproduction number from the initial phase of the Spanish flu pandemic waves in Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 457-470. Ramesh Garimella, Uma Garimella and Weijiu Liu, A theoretic control approach in signal-controlled metabolic pathways, pp. 471-488. Marios M. Hadjiandreou, Raul Conejeros and Vassilis S. Vassiliadis, Towards a long-term model construction for the dynamic simulation of HIV infection, pp. 489-504. Daniel Maxin and Fabio A. Milner, The effect of nonreproductive groups on persistent sexually transmitted diseases, pp. 505-522. Carolina Mendoza, Jean Bragard, Pier L. Ramazza, Javier Martinez--Mardones and Stefano Boccaletti, Pinning control of spatiotemporal chaos in the LCLV device, pp. 523-530. Mika Yoshida, Kinji Fuchikami and Tatsuya Uezu, Realization of immune response features by dynamical system models, pp. 531-552. Timothy C. Reluga and Jan Medlock, Resistance mechanisms matter in SIR models, pp. 553-563. ------ Subject: Contents, Advances in Mathematics of Communications 1:2 From: Zemin Zeng Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:33:46 -0400 Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC) Volume: 1, Number: 2, May 2007 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/amc/amc_online.jsp Beniamin Mounits, Tuvi Etzion and Simon Litsyn Pages : 173 - 195 New upper bounds on codes via association schemes and linear programming M. J. Jacobson, R. Scheidler and A. Stein Pages : 197 - 221 Cryptographic protocols on real hyperelliptic curves T. Aaron Gulliver, Masaaki Harada and Hiroki Miyabayashi Pages : 223 - 238 Double circulant and quasi-twisted self-dual codes over F5 and F7 Rudolf Ahlswede Pages : 239 - 242 The final form of Tao's inequality relating conditional expectation and conditional mutual information Jyrki Lahtonen, Gary McGuire and Harold N. Ward Pages : 243 - 250 Gold and Kasami-Welch functions, quadratic forms, and bent functions Masaaki Harada and Akihiro Munemasa Pages : 251 - 256 On the covering radii of extremal doubly even self-dual codes J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane Pages : 257 - 260 The optimal isodual lattice quantizer in three dimensions Masaaki Harada and Takuji Nishimura Pages : 261 - 267 An extremal singly even self-dual code of length 88 Douglas R. Stinson Pages : 269 - 280 Unconditionally secure chaffing and winnowing with short authentication tags ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control 12:2 From: Romas Baronas Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:55:34 +0300 Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, ISSN 1392-5113, Volume 12, Number 2, 2007 A free on-line edition is available at: http://www.lana.lt/journal/issues.php TABLE OF CONTENTS The Nehari Manifold for p-Laplacian Equation with Dirichlet Boundary Condition, Pages 143-155. G.A. Afrouzi, S. Mahdavi, Z. Naghizadeh. A Study of Steady Buoyancy-Driven Dissipative Micropolar Free Convection Heat and Mass Transfer in a Darcian Porous Regime with Chemical Reaction, Pages 157-180. O. Anwar Beg, R. Bhargava, S. Rawat, H.S. Takhar, Tasweer A. Beg. Process Distribution in the Network Systems, Pages 181-189. J. Augutis, E. Uspuras, R. Krikstolaitis, V. Matuzas. Conjugate Effects of Heat and Mass Transfer on Natural Convection Flow Across an Isothermal Horizontal Circular Cylinder With Chemical Reaction, Pages 191-201. Md.A. Hye, Md.M. Molla, M.A.H. Khan. Natural Convection in a Square Cavity in the Presence of Heated Plate, Pages 203-212. P. Kandaswamy, J. Lee, A.K. Abdul Hakeem. Some Advanced Fiber-Optic Amplitude Modulated Reflection Displacement and Refractive Index Sensors, Pages 213-225. V. Kleiza, J. Verkelis. A Nonlinear Dynamical Model to Study the Removal of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants in a Rain System, Pages 227-243. R. Naresh, S. Sundar. Computational Modeling of the Amperometric Bioanalytical System for Lipase Activity Assay: a Time-Dependent Response, Pages 245-251. M. Puida, F. Ivanauskas, I. Ignatjev, G. Valineius, V. Razumas. Nonlinear Spectra for Parameter Dependent Ordinary Differential Equations, Pages 253-267. F. Sadyrbaev, A. Gritsans. On Similarity Solutions and Interface Reactions for a Vector-Valued Stefan Problem, Pages 269-288. F.J. Vermolen. For a paper submission, please refer to http://www.lana.lt/journal ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 228:2 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 12:47:26 -0400 New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect! * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 228, Issue 2, Pages 87-188 (15 April 2007) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2007-997719997-652060 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Page ii 2) Multimodal oscillations in systems with strong contraction Pages 87-106 Georgi Medvedev and Yun Yoo 3) Scale properties as a basis of power law relaxation processes Pages 107-111 A. Fondado, J. Mira and J. Rivas 4) On the propagation of binary signals in damped mechanical systems of oscillators Pages 112-121 J.E. Macias-Diaz and A. Puri 5) Global orientation dynamics for liquid crystalline polymers Pages 122-129 Hailiang Liu 6) Self-trapped electron states in nanotubes Pages 130-139 L. Bratek, L. Brizhik, A. Eremko, B. Piette, M. Watson and W. Zakrzewski 7) Boundary induced nonlinearities at small Reynolds numbers Pages 140-147 M. Sbragaglia and K. Sugiyama 8) Coherent control of optical bistability in a microwave-driven V-type atomic system Pages 148-152 Jiahua Li 9) A first order model in traffic flow Pages 153-158 R.M. Velasco and P. Saavedra 10) On axially symmetrical solitons in Abelian-Higgs models Pages 159-165 C.G. Doudoulakis 11) The vector nonlinear Schrodinger hierarchy Pages 166-171 Oliver H. Warren and John N. Elgin 12) Theoretical and experimental study of the third-order nonlinearity parameter C/A for biological media Pages 172-178 Xiaozhou Liu, Junlun Li, Xiufen Gong, Zhenmin Zhu and Dong Zhang 13) Center manifold analysis of a point vortex model of vortex shedding with control Pages 179-187 Bartosz Protas ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 229:1 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 16:00:32 -0400 New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect! * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 229, Issue 1, Pages 1-96 (1 May 2007) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2007-997709998-651425 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Page ii 2) A note on the Gamma test analysis of noisy input/output data and noisy time series Pages 1-8 Antonia J. Jones, D. Evans and S.E. Kemp 3) The structure of ionizing electron trajectories for hydrogen in parallel fields Pages 9-21 Kevin A. Mitchell and John B. Delos 4) Self-similar solutions of a 2-D multiple-phase curvature flow Pages 22-34 Xinfu Chen and Jong-Shenq Guo 5) A class of overdetermined systems defined by tableaux: Involutiveness and the Cauchy problem Pages 35-42 Emilio Musso and Lorenzo Nicolodi 6) A three-parametric study of the Lorenz model Pages 43-51 R. Barrio and S. Serrano 7) Chaos synchronization of the master-slave generalized Lorenz systems via linear state error feedback control Pages 52-80 Xiaofeng Wu, Guanrong Chen and Jianping Cai 8) Computing ergodic limits for Langevin equations Pages 81-95 G.N. Milstein and M.V. Tretyakov Erratum 9) Erratum to "Discommensuration theory and shadowing in Frenkel-Kontorova models" by C. Baesens and R.S. MacKay [Physica D 216 (2006) 179-184] Page 96 C. Baesens and R.S. MacKay ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 229:2 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 08:05:27 -0400 New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect! * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 229, Issue 2, Pages 97-190 (15 May 2007) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2007-997709997-655640 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Page ii 2) On time analyticity of weak solutions of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations Pages 97-103 Eugene Tsyganov 3) Modulated amplitude waves in collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates Pages 104-115 Mason A. Porter, P.G. Kevrekidis, Boris A. Malomed and D.J. Frantzeskakis 4) New periodic wave solutions to nonlinear evolution equations by the extended mapping method Pages 116-122 Guojiang Wu, Jiahua Han, Wenliang Zhang and Miao Zhang 5) Asymptotic behavior near planar transition fronts for the Cahn-Hilliard equation Pages 123-165 Peter Howard 6) Computing absolute and essential spectra using continuation Pages 166-183 Jens D.M. Rademacher, Bjorn Sandstede and Arnd Scheel 7) Rational Ruijsenaars-Schneider hierarchy and bispectral difference operators Pages 184-190 Plamen Iliev ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 20:6 From: Liz Martin Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:59:44 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 20, Issue 6, June 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=6 Pages: 1313--1534 PAPERS 1313 A KAM theorem for Hamiltonian networks with long ranged couplings J Geng and Y Yi 1343 Critical Fujita exponents for a class of quasilinear equations with homogeneous Neumann boundary data C Wang, S Zheng and Z Wang 1361 The amplitude equations for the first instability of electro-convection in nematic liquid crystals in the case of two unbounded space directions G Schneider and H Uecker 1387 Resonant eigenstates for a quantized chaotic system S Nonnenmacher and M Rubin 1421 Some semi-linear parabolic equations with nonlinear flux boundary conditions P Grindrod and E Tuma 1431 Statistical properties of nonlinear shell models of turbulence from linear advection models: rigorous results R Benzi, B Levant, I Procaccia and E S Titi 1443 Cnoidal wave solutions to Boussinesq systems H Chen, M Chen and N V Nguyen 1463 Topology and separation of self-similar fractals in the plane C Bandt and H Rao 1475 Uniqueness for the Navier--Stokes problem: remarks on a theorem of Jean--Yves Chemin P G Lemari\'e-Rieusset 1491 A Borel--Cantelli lemma for intermittent interval maps S Gou\"ezel 1499 Numerical continuation of normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds H W Broer, A Hagen and G Vegter ------ Subject: Nonlinearity High-Profile Articles of 2006 From: Kate Watt Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:23:46 +0100 Nonlinearity High-Profile Articles of 2006. I am delighted to announce the publication of a special collection of articles that highlight the breadth of high-quality research published in Nonlinearity during 2006. Articles in this collection are freely available until 31 December 2007 at http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.highlights/non. These 'High-Profile Articles' consist of the top-downloaded papers published in 2006, many of which have already been highly cited. Whether you are reading these articles for the first time or from renewed interest, we hope you will find them enjoyable and stimulating. Information on how to read, write for or subscribe to Nonlinearity can be found at http://www.iop.org/journals/non or you can email the journal publishing team at non@iop.org. Kate Watt Publisher, Nonlinearity IOP Publishing ------ Subject: Call for papers: ASR Special Issue on Astrodynamics From: Pini Gurfil Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 21:32:38 +0200 Call for Papers: Advances in Space Research Special Issue on Advances in Astrodynamics and Applications Recent advances in the research of astrodynamics and its applications have created an unprecedented interest in the space community. The theory of dynamical systems, modern numerical methods, and breakthroughs in electric propulsion have all been integrated for developing new orbits and mission design concepts. The main purpose of this Special Issue is to portray some of the recent advances and future paths of the astrodynamical sciences at large, bridging the gap between theoretical and applied astrodynamics. Papers are invited on the mathematical, physical, and engineering aspects of modern astrodynamical design. Topics include, but are not limited to, . Orbit design for upcoming missions . New types of low-energy trajectories, including ballistic capture, motions near Lagrange points, weak stability boundaries, and distant retrograde orbits . Dynamical astronomy and celestial mechanics . Astrodynamical modeling using geometric and analytical mechanics . Numerical methods and algorithms for orbit and trajectory optimization . Satellite dynamics, control, formation flying and coordinated motion . Nuclear, electric and plasma spacecraft propulsion with applications to mission design . High-fidelity modeling of Earth satellite orbits . Near-earth objects and space debris Submitted papers must be written in English and should include a cover page with a title, name and address (including email) of all contributing authors, an abstract, and a list of keywords. Only full-length draft papers will be considered for publications, subject to a regular peer-review process. The authors are encouraged to follow the ASR formatting guidelines at http://www.spaceroutes.com/astrocon/ASR_Special_Issue_Instructions.pdf Submissions of papers are due October 1, 2007. Please email all papers to the Guest Editors, Dr. Pini Gurfil (pgurfil@technion.ac.il) and Dr. Ed Belbruno (belbruno@princeton.edu). Acceptance notifications will be sent by January 1, 2008. The anticipated publication date of the Special Issue is mid 2008.