Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 07, Number 22 December 1, 2007 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Workshop, Understanding Cellular Calcium Signals Call for Papers: Algebraic Biology 2008 Position in Analysis, Universite catholique de Louvain Tenure-track position, Western Illinois University PhD & Postdoc Positions in Spacecraft Design, Dynamics and Control Postdoctoral positions at Tulane University Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 20:2 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 8:4 Contents, Nonlinearity 20:12 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, Understanding Cellular Calcium Signals From: Ruediger Thul Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:35:33 +0000 Dear all, following the successful Calcium meeting in 2006, the University of Nottingham will host the workshop "Understanding Cellular Calcium Signals" next year. This one-day event will take place on 4 April, 2008 and aims at bridging the gap between experimentalists and theoreticians working on various aspects of the intriguing dynamics of cellular Calcium. For further details, please see http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/rt/workshop08/ Hope to see you in Nottingham next year. Dr. Ruediger Thul School of Mathematical Sciences University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham NG7 2RD UK http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/rt/ ------ Subject: Call for Papers: Algebraic Biology 2008 From: Algebraic Biology 2008 Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:38:37 +0100 Second Call for Papers Third International Conference on Algebraic Biology July 31-August 2, 2008 RISC, Castle of Hagenberg, Austria http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/ab2008 AIMS AND SCOPE The Third International Conference on Algebraic Biology, AB'08, is an international forum to promote discussion and interaction between researchers who apply symbolic computation to various issues in biology / life sciences. The conference covers all aspects of applications of symbolic computation methods in biology IMPORTANT DATES January 7, 2008 Deadline for abstracts January 14, 2008 Deadline for full papers March 31, 2008 Notification of acceptance April 28, 2008 Camera-ready paper submission CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/ab2008 ------ Subject: Position in Analysis, Universite catholique de Louvain From: michel.willem@uclouvain.be Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:09:53 +0100 MATHEMATICS (ANALYSIS) The Universite catholique de Louvain is looking for a full-time specialist in Mathematics (Analysis) The successful candidate will conduct research mainly in the broad domain of mathematical analysis. He/she will reinforce one of the algebra research teams, will join their international network and will bring new skills to the Department. He/she will demonstrate an international research career including significant results. The successful candidate will fulfil teaching assignments in the above-mentioned field as well as in general mathematics within the various degree programmes organised by the Faculty, both in the Faculty of Sciences and in other faculties. Teaching experience is required. Further information : Prof. Michel Willem - michel.willem@uclouvain.be GENERAL CONDITIONS Tasks : The applicant will be responsible for teaching courses at the three study levels (i.e. undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate), as well as in programmes of continuing education; supervise the final diploma work (i.e. master thesis) of graduate students, as well as PhD theses; raise the international research and teaching profile of the university raise the international research and teaching profile of the university participate in research projects in the field of development cooperation (if this fits the post description). Qualifications : the applicant will have a PhD degree in mathematical sciences; a significant scientific record proved by international publications ; either studied abroad for an extensive period or had substantial experience outside UCL ; experience in and aptitude for teaching at university level ; the capacities required to undertake academic research at a high level and to advise, or lead, a research team ; a good knowledge of both spoken and written French. If this is not the case, the applicant should be ready to learn French within a year. Fluency in English and other languages is an additional advantage; the capacity to teach in French and in a second international language. ------ Subject: Tenure-track position, Western Illinois University From: Sue Shogren Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:49:41 -0600 (CST) ONE TENURE-TRACK POSITION, Assistant Professor, August 2008 . One position: any area of mathematics, applied mathematics (particularly to environmental sciences) preferred. 9-11 hours teaching, research, service expected. QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. in mathematical sciences area; demonstrated, or potential for, excellence in teaching; a record of, or potential for, research; a record of, or commitment to, service. SCREENING BEGINS December 20, 2007 ; continues until position is filled. Preliminary interviews: San Diego Joint Meetings. Send letter, vita, teaching philosophy, research description, three reference letters, transcripts (photocopies): Iraj Kalantari, Chair Mathematics Department Western Illinois University Macomb, IL 61455-1390 URL: http://www.wiu.edu/mathematics/ WIU has a non-discrimination policy that includes sex, race, color, sexual orientation, religion, age, marital status, national origin, disability, or veteran status. ------ Subject: PhD & Postdoc Positions in Spacecraft Design, Dynamics and Control From: Krishna Kumar Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:29:49 -0500 The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Ryerson University has a strong and vibrant research programme involving the development of small satellites under Prof. Krishna Kumar, a well known international expert in the area of spacecraft dynamics and control. Two PhD studentships and one postdoctoral position are available in his areas of research that include Dynamics and Control of Space Systems, Orbit and Attitude Dynamics and Control, Formation Flying, Microsatellite systems, Satellite design using Nanotechnology and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). To pursue research in these exciting areas, the candidates with degrees in Aerospace/Mechanical/Electrical/ Electronics/Computer engineering should have a strong background in in mathematics, system dynamics, and nonlinear control system as well as high GPA and TOEFL scores. The candidates with experience in designing real-time controllers and communication systems are also preferred. Interested candidates should send (preferably by email) latest by December 20, 2007, their resumes along with names and contact information of three references as well as copies of research papers to: Dr. Krishna Kumar, Associate Professor Canada Research Chair in Space Systems Engineering Department of Aerospace Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 2K3 Tel: 1-416-979-5000 Ext. 4908, Fax: 1-416-979-5056 Email: kdkumar@ryerson.ca http://www.ryerson.ca/~mechgrad/faculty.html; http://www.kdkumar.com ------ Subject: Postdoctoral positions at Tulane University From: Lisa Fauci Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:12:40 -0600 Postdoctoral positions Center for Computational Science and Department of Mathematics Tulane University, New Orleans, LA The Tulane Center for Computational Science has two openings for postdoctoral research positions in computational biological fluid dynamics. The appointments are initially for one year, but renewable for up to three years starting in the fall of 2008. One position will be funded by an NSF Focused Research Group in Mathematics grant that will focus on the dynamics of elastic biostructures in complex fluids. The other position will be funded by an NSF Collaborative Grant in Mathematical Geosciences that will focus on the dynamics of phytoplankton in dissipative vortices. Each project involves the collaboration of computational scientists and experimentalists, and the postdoctoral fellows will have opportunities to spend some time during the summers at experimental labs (FRG New York University, CMG University of Maine). Preference will be given to applicants with experience in at least one of the following areas: computational fluid dynamics, viscoelastic fluids, immersed boundary methods, mathematical biology, and scientific computation. Note that the Focused Research Group is a collaboration of: Lisa Fauci (Tulane), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane), Robert Dillon (Washington State University), Joseph Teran (UCLA), Michael Shelley (New York University) and Jun Zhang (New York University). Note that the Math Geosciences Group is a collaboration of: Lisa Fauci (Tulane), Peter Jumars (University of Maine), and Lee Karp-Boss (University of Maine). Interested candidates should send electronic versions of a CV, research description and 2-3 letters of reference to: Lisa Fauci fauci@tulane.edu Tulane University Department of Mathematics New Orleans, LA 70118 Application reviews will start on December 3, 2007. Tulane University is an equal employment/affirmative action/ADA employer committed to excellence through diversity. All eligible candidates are invited to apply. ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 20:2 From: Liwei Ning Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:28:11 -0600 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (DCDS-A) Volume: 20, Number: 2, February 2008 http://aimsciences.org/journals/dcdsA/online.jsp Yvan Martel and Frank Merle pages{177--218} Refined asymptotics around solitons for gKdV equations J. Colliander, A. D. Ionescu, C. E. Kenig and G. Staffilani pages{219--258} Weighted low-regularity solutions of the KP-I initial-value problem Fang Li, Kimie Nakashima and Wei-ming Ni pages{259--274} Stability from the point of view of diffusion, relaxation and spatial inhomogeneity F. Blanchard and W. Huang pages{275--311} Entropy sets, weakly mixing sets and entropy capacity X. Dai and Y. Jiang pages{313--333} Distance entropy of dynamical systems on noncompact-phase spaces Enrique R. Pujals pages{335--405} Density of hyperbolicity and homoclinic bifurcations for attracting topologically hyperbolic sets Elena Trofimchuk and Sergei Trofimchuk pages{407--423} Admissible wavefront speeds for a single species reaction-diffusion equation with delay ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 8:4 From: Liwei Ning Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:23:31 -0600 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B (DCDS-B) Volume: 8, Number: 4, January 2007 http://aimsciences.org/journals/dcdsB/dcdsb_online.jsp Table of Contents: I. Choquet, P. Degond and B. Lucquin-Desreux pages{735-772} A hierarchy of diffusion models for partially ionized plasmas Marina Chugunova and Dmitry Pelinovsky pages{773--800} Two-pulse solutions in the fifth-order KdV equation: rigorous theory and numerical approximations Guihong Fan and Gail S. K. Wolkowicz pages{801--831} Analysis of a model of nutrient driven self-cycling fermentation allowing unimodal response functions L. Jiang, Y. Efendiev and V. Ginting pages{833-859} Multiscale methods for parabolic equations with continuum spatial scales Ansgar J\"ungel and Ingrid Violet pages{861--877} First-order entropies for the Derrida-Lebowitz-Speer-Spohn equation Fabien Marpeau pages{879--900} Modeling the indirect contamination of a structured population with continuous levels of exposure M. T. G. Montesinos and F. O. Gallego pages{901--923} The Evolution Thermistor Problem under the Wiedemann-Franz law with metallic conduction K. D. Phung, G. Wang and X. Zhang pages{925--941} On the Existence of Time Optimal Controls for Linear Evolution Equations A.~Pokrovskii, O.~Rasskazov and D.~Visetti pages{943-970} Homoclinic trajectories and chaotic behaviour in a piecewise linear oscillator A. Pumari\~no and J. C. Tatjer pages{971--1005} Attractors for return maps near homoclinic tangencies of three-dimensional dissipative diffeomorphisms M. Ragulskis and Z. Navickas pages{1007-1020} Hash Function Construction Based on Time Average Moir\'{e} ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 20:12 From: Liz Martin Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:05:45 +0000 NONLINEARITY Volume 20, Issue 12, December 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=12 Pages:2739--2962 PAPERS 2739 On the regularity of the primitive equations of the ocean Igor Kukavica and Mohammed Ziane 2755 Lap number entropy formula for piecewise affine and projective maps in several dimensions Yutaka Ishii and Duncan Sands 2773 The random case of Conley's theorem: III. Random semiflow case and Morse decomposition Zhenxin Liu 2793 Blended response algorithms for linear fluctuation-dissipation for complex nonlinear dynamical systems Rafail V Abramov and Andrew J Majda 2823 Stochastic fluctuations in the Gross--Pitaevskii equation Anne de Bouard and Reika Fukuizumi 2845 The Hamiltonian structure of the second Painlev\'e hierarchy Marta Mazzocco and Man Yue Mo 2883 Does the complex susceptibility of the H\'enon map have a pole in the upper-half plane? A numerical investigation B Cessac 2897 Chaotic attractors and physical measures for some density dependent Leslie population models Ilie Ugarcovici and Howard Weiss 2907 Pulsating front speed-up and quenching of reaction by fast advection Andrej Zlato\v s 2923 On $p$-adic Gibbs measures of the countable state Potts model on the Cayley tree A Yu Khrennikov, F M Mukhamedov and J F F Mendes 2939 Local dynamics for fibred holomorphic transformations Mario Ponce