Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 08, Number 07 April 15, 2008 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Advanced Course on Stability and Instability in Mechanical Systems Conference on Stability and Instability in Mechanical Systems Summer school on Cardiovascular Mathematics 5-year research position (Portugal) Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 237:5 Contents, Networks and Heterogeneous Media 3:2 Contents, Kinetic and Related Models 1:2 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: Advanced Course on Stability and Instability in Mechanical Systems From: Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:10:17 +0200 Advanced Course on Stability and Instability in Mechanical Systems September 15 to 19, 2008 Centre de Recerca Matematica Bellaterra Speakers: Massimiliano Berti, Universita di Napoli Chong-Qing Cheng, Nanjing University Ernest fontich, , Universitat de Barcelona Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University Chris Jones, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill and Univ. of Warwick Anatoly Neishtadt, Moscow Space Research Institute and Loughborough Univ. Carles Simo, Universitat de Barcelona Dmitry Treschev, Moscow State University Turgay Uzer, Georgia Institute of Technology The deadline for registration and payment is July 1, 2008 Registration: http://www.crm.cat/acsims ------ Subject: Conference on Stability and Instability in Mechanical Systems From: Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:10:17 +0200 Conference on Stability and Instability in Mechanical Systems: Recent progress and mathematical theory September 22 to 26, 2008 Centre de Recerca Matematica Bellaterra Speakers: Massimiliano Berti, Universita di Napoli Alain Chenciner, Universite de Paris VII Chong-Qing Cheng, Nanjing University Luigi Chierchia, Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata" Gonzalo Contreras, CIMAT Hakan Eliasson, Universite de Paris VII Giovanni Gallavotti, Universita di Roma La Sapienza Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University George Haller, MIT Chris Jones, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill and Univ. of Warwick Robert McKay, University of Warwick Anatoli Neishtadt, Moscow Space Research Institute and Loughborough Univ. Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute of Science David Sauzin, IMCCE Dmitry Treschev, Moscow State University Turgay Uzer, Georgia Institute of Technology Yingfei Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology The deadline for registration and payment is July 1, 2008 Registration: http://www.crm.cat/csims ------ Subject: Summer school on Cardiovascular Mathematics From: Fabio Nobile Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 03:50:21 -0400 EMS-SMI Cortona Summer School on Mathematical and Numerical Models for the Cardiovascular System Main lecturers: Dominique Chapelle, Piero Colli-Franzone, Alfio Quarteroni Cortona (Italy), August 16-31, 2008 http://mox.polimi.it/cortona08 The European Mathematical Society (EMS) in collaboration with Scuola Matematica Interuniversitaria (SMI) of Florence, Italy, organises a summer school in Cortona, Italy. The school aims at addressing in a unified framework several aspects of the mathematical modelling and numerical simulation of the circulatory physiology. In particular we will address the electrical excitation of the heart, the related mechanical contraction, models for blood flow circulation and the transport of biochemicals. Emphasis will be put on modelling aspects, the analysis of coupled system of PDEs, numerical approximation and algorithmic issues. In particular, we will address efficient methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, Arbitrary Eulerian Lagrangian formulation, numerical techniques for the dynamics of biological structures, coupling strategies for fluid structure interaction schemes, numerical schemes for the non linear reaction diffusion system governing the cardiac bio-electrical activity and domain decomposition techniques for their parallel implementation. Beside traditional lectures, the school includes practical sessions, organised with the aid of scientific software. The course is addressed to researchers and graduate students in applied mathematics, as well as bioengineers and medical researchers interested in the numerical simulation aspects. A limited number of scholarships are available. Scholarships cover accommodation, living expenses and part of travel expenses according to budget availability. Applications deadline is May 30th 2008. Preference will be given to nationals of EU and associated states, yet applications from motivated students of other nationalities will be considered as well. Further information about eligibility criteria may be found on the EMS web site http://www.emis.de/etc/ems-summer-schools.html More details and contact information may be found on the web page of the school. ------ Subject: 5-year research position (Portugal) From: "Luis N. Vicente" Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:43:15 -0500 5-YEAR RESEARCH POSITION The Centre for Mathematics of the University of Coimbra invites applications for a 5-year research position in Applied and Computational Mathematics. Applicants should have a PhD in Mathematical Sciences and at least three years of postdoctoral experience, with a strong publication record and a demonstrated ability to perform independent research. Preference will be given to candidates with a solid background in Computational Mathematics, but applications from excellent candidates working in related areas are also encouraged. A good command of English is required. Successful applicants will develop their research activities in the framework of the Laboratory for Computational Mathematics http://www.mat.uc.pt/cmuc/lcm and may also participate in graduate programs. The position does not involve teaching duties and may revert to tenure-track in the future. The basic salary is in the order of 42500 euros a year. Benefits include private health insurance and social security. The deadline for application is May 2, 2008, and the application details are given in http://www.mat.uc.pt/~cmuc/5-year.pdf ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 237:5 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:50:52 -0400 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 237, Issue 5, Pages 573-720 (1 May 2008) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2008-997629994-684391 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Where do inertial particles go in fluid flows? Pages 573-583 George Haller and Themistoklis Sapsis 2) A mechanistic model of mid-latitude decadal climate variability Pages 584-599 S. Kravtsov, W.K. Dewar, M. Ghil, J.C. McWilliams and P. Berloff 3) Low-frequency breathers in polyethylene crystal Pages 600-612 L.I. Manevitch, A.V. Savin and C.-H. Lamarque 4) Influence of dynamical noise on time series generated by nonlinear maps Pages 613-618 Marek Strumik and Wieslaw M. Macek 5) Stochastic analysis of recurrence plots with applications to the detection of deterministic signals Pages 619-629 Gustavo K. Rohde, Jonathan M. Nichols, Bryan M. Dissinger and Frank Bucholtz 6) Boundedness and synchronization of y-coupled Lorenz systems with or without controllers Pages 630-639 Xiwei Liu and Tianping Chen 7) Degree correlations in growing networks with deletion of nodes Pages 640-651 Josep L. Garcia-Domingo, David Juher and Joan Salda\~na 8) Geometric approach to stationary shapes in rotating Hele-Shaw flows Pages 652-664 Eduardo S.G. Leandro, Rafael M. Oliveira and Jose A. Miranda 9) Should structure functions be used to estimate power laws in turbulence? A comparative study Pages 665-677 Gerald A. Nichols-Pagel, Donald B. Percival, Per G. Reinhall and James J. Riley 10) Tactically-driven nonmonotone travelling waves Pages 678-691 Kerry A. Landman, Matthew J. Simpson and Graeme J. Pettet 11) A duality principle corresponding to the parabolic equations Pages 692-698 Yavdat Il'yasov 12) Minimal mechanisms for school formation in self-propelled particles Pages 699-720 Yue-Xian Li, Ryan Lukeman and Leah Edelstein-Keshet ------ Subject: Contents, Networks and Heterogeneous Media 3:2 From: editorial@aimsciences.org Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:41:22 -0400 (EDT) Networks and Heterogeneous Media (NHM) Volume: 3, Number: 2, June 2008 http://aimsciences.org/journals/NHM/nhm_online.jsp Jan Lorenz and Stefano Battiston pages{185--200} Systemic risk in a network fragility model analyzed with probability density evolution of persistent random walks M. D. K\"onig, S. Battiston, M. Napoletano and F. Schweitzer pages{201--219} On algebraic graph theory and the dynamics of innovation networks T. S. Evans and A. D. K. Plato pages{221--238} Network rewiring models David Hales and Stefano Arteconi pages{239--249} Motifs in evolving cooperative networks look like protein structure networks Vinay Aggarwal and Anja Feldmann pages{251--265} Locality-aware P2P query search with ISP collaboration Jean-Philippe Cointet and David Chavalarias pages{267--276} Science mapping with asymmetrical paradigmatic proximity Michael Baur, Marco Gaertler, Robert G{\"o}rke, Marcus Krug and Dorothea Wagner pages{277--294} Augmenting $k$-core generation with preferential attachment Mirela Domijan and Markus Kirkilionis pages{295--322} Graph theory and qualitative analysis of reaction networks Reuven Cohen, Mira Gonen and Avishai Wool pages{323--332} Bounding the bias of tree-like sampling in IP topologies Roberto Serra, Marco Villani, Alex Graudenzi, Annamaria Colacci and Stuart A. Kauffman pages{333--343} The simulation of gene knock-out in scale-free random Boolean models of genetic networks Almerima Jamakovic and Steve Uhlig pages{345--359} On the relationships between topological measures in real-world networks Ginestra Bianconi and Riccardo Zecchina pages{361--369} Viable flux distribution in metabolic networks Jos\'e Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin, Luca Dall'Asta, Alain Barrat and Alessandro Vespignani pages{371--393} K-core decomposition of Internet graphs: hierarchies, self-similarity and measurement biases Anirban Banerjee and J\"urgen Jost pages{395--411} Spectral plot properties: Towards a qualitative classification of networks ------ Subject: Contents, Kinetic and Related Models 1:2 From: Liwei Ning Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:40:16 -0500 Kinetic and Related Models (KRM) Volume: 1, Number: 2, June 2008 http://aimsciences.org/journals/krm/contents.jsp Yunkyong Hyon, Jose A. Carrillo, Qiang Du and Chun Liu pages{171--184} A maximum entropy principle based closure method for macro-micro models of polymeric materials St\'ephane Brull pages{185--221} Problem of evaporation-condensation for a two component gas in the slab Bertrand Lods, Cl\'ement Mouhot and Giuseppe Toscani pages{223--248} Relaxation rate, diffusion approximation and Fick's law for inelastic scattering Boltzmann models Giulia Ajmone Marsan, Nicola Bellomo And Massimo Egidi pages{249--278} Towards a mathematical theory of complex socio-economical systems by functional subsystems representation Pierre Degond and Marcello Delitala pages{279--293} Modelling and simulation of vehicular traffic jam formation Marzia Bisi, Maria Paola Cassinari and Maria Groppi pages{295--312} Qualitative analysis of the generalized Burnett equations and applications to half-space problems Quansen Jiu and Zhouping Xin pages{313--330} The Cauchy problem for 1D compressible flows with density-dependent viscosity coefficients