Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 07, Number 16 September 1, 2007 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Workshop on Biological Networks: Models, Dynamics, and Simulations Postdoc Position in Biomath, Univ. Guelph, Canada Research Associates at the University of Manchester PhD position in Simulation of Colloids at RWTH Aachen University Contents, Nonlinearity 20:9 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 233:2 Contents, Communications in Mathematical Sciences 5:3 Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 4:4 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 Biological Networks: Models, Dynamics, and Simulations From: Fatihcan Atay Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 00:08:15 +0200 Genetic and Biological Networks: Models, Dynamics, and Simulations A satellite workshop of the ECCS'07: European Conference on Complex Systems, 1-5 October 2007, Dresden, Germany Biological systems show emerging functional properties originating from their many interacting units and their inherent multi-level structure. In recent years, biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists have been joining efforts in order to understand the different aspects of the collective phenomena exhibited by aggregates of cells and by regulatory networks. The aim of this meeting is to bring together experts in such fields to discuss and explore our understanding of complex biological networks and their applications in the life sciences. Specific topics include, but are not limited to, gene-regulatory, molecular, and metabolic networks, bioinformatics, population dynamics, neural systems, evolutionary dynamics, and mathematical biology. Interested researchers who wish to contribute a talk are invited to send a title and abstract to fatay@mis.mpg.de For further information please visit: http://personal-homepages.mis.mpg.de/fatay/eccs07 ------ Subject: Postdoc Position in Biomath, Univ. Guelph, Canada From: Hermann Eberl Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:53:01 -0400 (EDT) Postdoctoral Position, Univ. Guelph, Canada We invite applications for the position of a postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Biomathematics Laboratory, Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. Guelph, On, Canada. Applicants should have expertise and interest in at least one of the following research areas: - biofilm modeling - partial differential equations (modeling, analysis, numerical analysis) with applications in biology - computational fluid dynamics, in particular biofluid dynamics or fluid-(soft)structure interactions - mathematical modeling and numerical simulation in environmental engineering Candidates should have a PhD in Mathematics or Engineering or in a sufficiently closely related discipline. The incumbent will be expected to develop an independent research program, but also to participate in at least one of the ongoing research projects in the Computational Biomathematics Laboratory. Candidates should be able to teach an undergraduate mathematics course (typically 1st or 2nd year) if assigned by the Department Chair. The Computational Biomathematics Laboratory is lead by Dr HJ Eberl (Assoc. Prof. and Canada Research Chair, http://www.uoguelph.ca/~heberl) and is currently composed of one postdoc, six graduate students and one undergraduate student. The University of Guelph is a research intensive comprehensive university (approx 18000 students, including 2000 graduate students) with a unique tradition and focus on life sciences. This offers a broad range of opportunities for intedsiciplinary collaborations. Within the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Biomathematics and Statistics (BIOMS) is the largest research group, with currently more than 10 faculty and more than 20 graduate students and postdocs (see http://www.uoguelph.ca/biom&s). The appointment will be initially for one year; an extension for one more year is anticipated, pending on confirmation of availability of funds. Applicants should submit a CV, a description of research expertise and interests (1 or 2 pages), and provide the contact details of at least two academic references. All documentation should be sent (email or regular mail) before Sept 20 to Dr. Hermann J. Eberl Dept. Mathematics and Statistics Univ. Guelph, Guelph, On, Canada, N1G 2W1 email: heberl@uoguelph.ca, http://www.uoguelph.ca/~heberl Informal inquiries should be addressed by email to heberl@uoguelph.ca ------ Subject: Research Associates at the University of Manchester From: John Brooke Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:29:14 +0100 Job Openings for THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY COMPUTATIONAL AND DYNAMICAL ANALYSIS (CICADA) 5 RESEARCH ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE POSTS The University invites applications for the above posts. The posts are available from 1 October 2007, or as soon as possible thereafter, for a period of 4 years. Starting salary will be in the range ??26,666 to ??32,796 per annum (Level 6). A successful applicant who is yet to be awarded their PhD will be appointed as a Research Assistant with a starting salary in the range ??22,332 to ??25,889 per annum (Level 5). We are seeking computer scientists, mathematics and control engineers with a strong interest in contributing to the research. The goals of the centre are: 1) To develop new methods for analysis, abstraction, design, and maintenance of systems consisting of continuous and discrete components (hybrid systems) which will lead to significantly better formal verification and control of these systems. 2) To develop new mathematics in dynamical systems, numerical analysis, and other areas motivated by problems in hybrid systems. 3) To apply new mathematical techniques, and other existing techniques identified as being useful and relevant to problems with continuous and discrete components in both man-made and naturally occurring systems, including systems design, verification, analysis, maintenance and control. 4)To find and build effective interdisciplinary interactions with both academic and industrial partners where the results of this activity have potential application. 5) To provide training and experience for emerging researchers who will work in this area. Applications should be returned by 17 September 2007 to: Faculty HR Office, The University of Manchester, Room B7, Sackville Street Building Sackville Street, Manchester, M60 1QD, Or by fax to: +44(0) 161 306 4037 Or by email to: eps-hr@manchester.ac.uk. All correspondence should quote reference number EPS/174/07. The Director of the Centre is David Broomhead to whom enquiries can be made. (D.S.Broomhead@manchester.ac.uk). ------ Subject: PhD position in Simulation of Colloids at RWTH Aachen University From: Marek Behr Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:41:06 -0400 The Chair for Computational Analysis of Technical Systems in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the RWTH Aachen University seeks a 50% scientific co-worker (TV-L 13 salary scale). The position will support the German Science Foundation focus program SPP 1273 "Colloid Process Technology" project "CFD Modeling of Colloidal Aggregates". The candidate is expected to conduct research leading to a doctoral thesis in the area of method and model development for simulation of colloidal aggregates (collection of spherical particles) in shear flows. The research will support the development of reduced mechanistic models that should be able to predict coalescence and breakup of the aggregates in a stochastic sense, in close collaboration with a partner project at Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg. For more details, please see: http://www.cats.rwth-aachen.de:8080/jobs/spp1273-ad.pdf http://www.cats.rwth-aachen.de/jobs/bat Applications are being reviewed now. The position is expected to be filled in the second half of 2007. Application materials and inquiries should be directed to: Prof. Marek Behr (behr@cats.rwth-aachen.de). The position will be associated with the graduate school Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science established at the RWTH Aachen under the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments. The half-time position is especially suitable for persons with family commitments; limited child-care support is available. ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 20:9 From: Liz Martin Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:11:28 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 20, Issue 9, September 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=9 Pages: 2035--2288 PAPERS 2035 A Leray-type regularization for the isentropic Euler equations H S Bhat, R C Fetecau and J Goodman 2047 A toral flow with a pointwise rotation set that is not closed Jaroslaw Kwapisz 2061 Self-similar solutions of semilinear wave equations with a focusing nonlinearity Piotr Bizo\'n, Dieter Maison and Arthur Wasserman 2075 Nonlinear modes for the Gross--Pitaevskii equation---a demonstrative computation approach G L Alfimov and D A Zezyulin 2093 Nonlinear Fourier transforms, integrability and nonlocality in multidimensions A S Fokas 2115 Stronger forms of sensitivity for dynamical systems T K Subrahmonian Moothathu 2127 Coarse-grained dynamics of an activity bump in a neural field model C R Laing, T A Frewen and I G Kevrekidis 2147 Rigorous verification of cocoon bifurcations in the Michelson system Hiroshi Kokubu, Daniel Wilczak and Piotr Zgliczy\'nski 2175 Dynamics of a system of sticking particles of finite size on the line Gershon Wolansky 2191 Periodic orbits and geometric complexity of the diffeomorphisms of $\mathbb{R}^2$ or $\mathbb{R}^p$ near the identity Arnaud Dehove 2205 Embedding theorems for non-uniformly sampled dynamical systems J P Huke and D S Broomhead 2245 Functional envelope of a dynamical system Joseph Auslander, Sergii Kolyada and L'ubom\'{\i}r Snoha 2271 Problems of maximal mean resistance on the plane Alexander Plakhov and Paulo D F Gouveia ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 233:2 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:01:31 -0400 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 233, Issue 2, Pages 83-174 (15 September 2007) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2007-997669997-666491 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Page ii 2) The random attractor of stochastic FitzHugh-Nagumo equations in an infinite lattice with white noises Pages 83-94 Jianhua Huang 3) Algorithms for computing preimages of cellular automata configurations Pages 95-111 Iztok Jeras and Andrej Dobnikar 4) Rotating matter waves in Bose-Einstein condensates Pages 112-137 Todd Kapitula, P.G. Kevrekidis and R. Carretero-Gonzalez 5) Characterization of complex behaviors of TCP/RED computer networks based on nonlinear time series analysis methods Pages 138-150 N. Bigdeli, M. Haeri, S. Choobkar and F. Jannesari 6) Morphological stability analysis of the epitaxial growth of a circular island: Application to nanoscale shape control Pages 151-166 Zhengzheng Hu, Shuwang Li and John S. Lowengrub 7) Nested canalyzing, unate cascade, and polynomial functions Pages 167-174 Abdul Salam Jarrah, Blessilda Raposa and Reinhard Laubenbacher ------ Subject: Contents, Communications in Mathematical Sciences 5:3 From: Communications in Math Sciences Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:48:08 -0500 Communications in Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Vol 5, No. 3, September 2007 Table of Contents full articles are online at www.intlpress.com/CMS * G.A. Pavliotis, A.M. Stuart and K.C. Zygalakis Homogenization for inertial particles in a random flow * Christophe Chalons and Paola Goatin Transport-Equilibrium schemes for computing contact discontinuities in traffic flow modeling * Tian Ma and Shouhong Wang Rayleigh-Benard convection: dynamics and structure in the physical space * Lenya Ryzhik and Andrej Zlatos KPP pulsating front speed-up by flows * Zhen Lei, Chun Liu and Yi Zhou Global existence for a 2D incompressible viscoelastic model with small strain * Mohammad Motamed and Olof Runborg A multiple-patch phase space method for computing trajectories on manifolds with applications to wave propagation problems * Weinan E and Jianfeng Lu Seamless multiscale modeling via dynamics on fiber bundles * U. Hetmaniuk Stability estimates for a class of Helmholtz problems * Olivier Pinaud Uniform bounds and weak solutions to an open Schrodinger-Poisson system * Weinan E and Jianfeng Lu The continuum limit and QM-continuum approximation of quantum mechanical models of solids * Aaditya V. Rangan Automatic coordinate transformation for two-point boundary value problems * Houde Han and Dongsheng Yin Absorbing boundary conditions for the multidimensional Klein-Gordon equations ------ Subject: Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 4:4 From: kuang Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:05:20 -0700 MBE content of Volume 4, Number 4, October, 2007 http://www.mbejournal.org/ListPapers.aspx Shangbing Ai, Global stability of equilibria in a tick-borne disease model pp. 567 -572. J. R. Artalejo, A. Economou and M. J. Lopez-Herrero, Evaluating growth measures in an immigration process subject to binomial and geometric catastrophes pp. 573 -594. Nicolas Bacaer, Xamxinur Abdurahman, Jianli Ye and Pierre Auger, On the basic reproduction number $R_0$ in sexual activity models for HIV/AIDS epidemics: Example from Yunnan, China pp. 595 -607. Michele Barbi and Rita Balocchi, Improved integrate-and-fire model for RSA pp. 609 -615. S. M. Crook, M. Dur-e-Ahmad and S. M. Baer, A model of activity-dependent changes in dendritic spine density and spine structure pp. 617 -631. Wandi Ding, Optimal control on hybrid ODE Systems with application to a tick disease model pp. 633 -659. Peng Feng and Menaka Navaratna, Modelling periodic oscillations during somitogenesis pp. 661 -673. Zhilan Feng, Final and peak epidemic sizes for SEIR models with quarantine and isolation pp. 675 -686. Elena Izquierdo-Kulich and Jose Manuel Nieto-Villar, Mesoscopic model for tumor growth pp. 687 -698. Jianquan Li, Zhien Ma and Fred Brauer, Global analysis of discrete-time SI and SIS epidemic models pp. 699 -710. Dana Paquin, Doron Levy and Lei Xing, Hybrid multiscale landmark and deformable image registration pp. 711 -737. Qingling Zeng, Kamran Khan, Jianhong Wu and Huaiping Zhu, The utility of preemptive mass influenza vaccination in controlling a SARS outbreak during flu season pp. 739 -754. Jian Zu, Wendi Wang and Bo Zu, Letter to the editors pp. 755 -755.