Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 08, Number 11 June 15, 2008 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Request for information on mathematical models of forest fires Workshop on Bifurcation Computations and Density Functional Theory Conference on Modeling, Simulation, & Optimization of Complex Systems Studentship on Nonlinear Time Series Analysis and Complex Networks PhD in Computational Stochastic Dynamics 5 year Research Fellowships at Oxford University Postodoc Position: CFD in Biofluid Mechanics Postdoctoral positions in Cancer Modelling Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 22:1/2 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 237:10-12 Contents, Nonlinearity 21:7 Contents, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control 13:2 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: Request for information on mathematical models of forest fires From: "Zlatev, Zahari" Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:57:42 +0200 Dear Colleagues, A PhD student, whom I know, is starting a study related to forest fires in Bulgaria. She needs a reliable mathematical model, which she intends to use with several sets of data. She may also work on implementation of the model on parallel computers and computer grids as well as on testing different numerical methods in the model. I shall be very grateful if anybody, who can provide such a model, contacts me. I shall also appreciate any information which may be useful. Best regards, Zahari Zahari Zlatev National Environmental Research Institute Aarhus University E-mail address: zz@dmu.dk Web-site: http://www.dmu.dk/AtmosphericEnvironment/staff/zlatev.htm ------ Subject: Workshop on Bifurcation Computations and Density Functional Theory From: "Beardmore, Robert E" Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:45:10 +0100 Workshop announcement: Bifurcation-Theoretic Computations and Classical Density Functional Theory Dept of Mathematics, Imperial College London, 24th June Speakers: Bob Evans, Laurie Frink, Jim Henderson, Matthias Schmidt, Robert Beardmore; organised by Andrew Parry The purpose of the workshop is to introduce classical density functional theory and to present current applications in condensed matter physics and biology, with an emphasis on developing computations for locating phase transitions and associated bifurcation structures. For titles of talks, visit http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~rebear/StatMechDay.htm The website http://software.sandia.gov/DFTfluids/publications.html provides extensive background to state of the art software for classical DFT computations as developed by Laura Frink and co-workers, the last speaker on the day. ------ Subject: Conference on Modeling, Simulation, & Optimization of Complex Systems From: mosocop08@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 13:58:04 +0200 (CEST) Second Announcement for the Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes The conference will take place July 21-25, 2008, at the University of Heidelberg and honor Hans Georg Bock and Rolf Rannacher on the occasion of their 60th birthdays. It will be devoted to the discussion of current topics in numerical methods for differential equations and optimization Detailed information on the conference including the program can be found on the web-site http://mosocop08.uni-hd.de If you have not registered yet, please do so until June 30, 2008 using the online-possibilities on this site. For the Conference Committee: Malte Braack, Guido Kanschat, Ekaterina Kostina, Johannes Schloeder ------ Subject: Studentship on Nonlinear Time Series Analysis and Complex Networks From: Michael Small Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:01:19 +0800 MPhil/PhD Studentship "Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, Complex Systems and Networks" 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/pubs.html http://small.eie.polyu.edu.hk/people.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: PhD in Computational Stochastic Dynamics From: andrew stuart Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:37:59 +0100 (BST) PhD in Computational Stochastic Dynamics. Warwick University. A PhD student is sought to work in the area of computational stochastic dynamics, with applications in molecular dynamics. The project will involve the use of stochastic PDEs to sample conditioned diffusion processes. The research will be part of a larger research effort working on problems at the interface of applied mathematics and statistics, and will be supervised by Andrew Stuart. The student will be supported via a four year combined MSc/PhD at Warwick, through which he/she will learn the tools of High Performance Computing in a one year MSc, and then progress to the three year PhD. Applicants from any country in the UK or EU are eligible, and fees and living stipend are covered. The start date will be 9/08 or 9/09. For further enquires please contact: Andrew Stuart: a.m.stuart@warwick.ac.uk http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~stuart/ ------ Subject: 5 year Research Fellowships at Oxford University From: Andy Wathen Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:50:48 -0400 Four 5-year OCCAM Research Fellowships are available in Computational and Applied Mathematics at Oxford University from October: closing date 13th June. These are senior research fellowships in various areas: see http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/6965 Andy Wathen ------ Subject: Postodoc Position: CFD in Biofluid Mechanics From: "James B. Grotberg PhD MD" Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:21:32 -0400 A postodoctoral position is available immediately in the Biofluid Mechanics Research Laboratory in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. We are seeking expertise in CFD applied to fluid-elastic and fluid-interface free boundary problems. These models are related to lung airway dynamics, airway stability, liquid plug propagation and pulmonary drug delivery. The projects are funded by NIH and involve working with a diverse laboratory of fluid dynamicists, bioengineers, and medical investigators. Qualified candidates should be proficient with the appropriate CFD techniques. Please send a CV and related publications to: James B. Grotberg, Ph.D., M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Michigan 2123 Carl A. Gerstacker Building 2200 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2099 Phone: (734) 936-3834 Fax: (734) 936-1905 Email: grotberg at umich dot edu The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/nondiscrimination institution. ------ Subject: Postdoctoral positions in Cancer Modelling From: Siv Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 22:59:15 -0400 (EDT) Postdoctoral positions in Cancer Modelling, Dept of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo. Applications are invited for one or possibly two postdoctoral positions in the Biomedical Research Group of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. The successful candidate(s) will have a PhD in Applied Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering, and expertise in the mathematical/computational modeling of tumor growth and control. The ability to interact with physicians and biologists is highly desirable. Candidates should in the first instance send a cover letter, CV, and the names of at least three potential referees to the address below. Electronic applications are strongly recommended. Although the starting date is negotiable, the preference is for candidate(s) who can start in September/October 2008 or as soon as possible thereafter. Further details and information can be obtained from Dr. M. Kohandel (kohandel@math.uwaterloo.ca) or Dr. S. Sivaloganathan (ssivalog@math.uwaterloo.ca). Biomedical Research Group Department of Applied Mathematics University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 Email: biomech@math.uwaterloo.ca http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~biomech/ ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 22:1/2 From: editorial@aimsciences.org Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 01:12:10 -0400 (EDT) Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (DCDS-A) Volume: 22, Number: 1/2, September/October 2008 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/dcdsA/online.jsp Anatole Katok pages{1--22} Moscow dynamics seminars of the Nineteen seventies and the early career of Yasha Pesin Valentin Afraimovich and Lev Glebsky pages{23--34} Measures related to $(\epsilon,n)$-complexity functions Jawad Al-Khal, Henk Bruin and Michael Jakobson pages{35--61} New examples of S-unimodal maps with a sigma-finite absolutely continuous invariant measure Leonid A. Bunimovich pages{63--74} Chaotic and nonchaotic mushrooms Keith Burns, Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Mar\'{\i}a Alejandra Rodriguez Hertz, Anna Talitskaya and Ra\'ul Ures pages{75--88} Density of accessibility for partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms with one-dimensional center Keith Burns and Amie Wilkinson pages{89--100} Dynamical coherence and center bunching David Cowan pages{101--109} A billiard model for a gas of particles with rotation David Cowan pages{111--130} Rigid particle systems and their billiard models Manfred Denker, Yuri Kifer and Manuel Stadlbauer pages{131--164} Thermodynamic formalism for random countable Markov shifts Dmitry Dolgopyat pages{165--182} Bouncing balls in non-linear potentials Andrey Gogolev and Misha Guysinsky pages{183--200} $C^1$-differentiable conjugacy of Anosov diffeomorphisms on three dimensional torus Boris Hasselblatt, Zbigniew Nitecki and James Propp pages{201--213} Topological entropy for nonuniformly continuous maps Huyi Hu, Miaohua Jiang and Yunping Jiang pages{215--234} Infimum of the metric entropy of hyperbolic attractors with respect to the SRB measure Thomas Jordan and Mark Pollicott pages{235--246} The Hausdorff dimension of measures for iterated function systems which contract on average Fran\c cois Ledrappier and Omri Sarig pages{247--325} Fluctuations of ergodic sums for horocycle flows on $\Z^d$--covers of finite volume surfaces Renaud Leplaideur and Beno\^{\i}t Saussol pages{327--344} Large deviations for return times in non-rectangle sets for axiom a diffeomorphisms Sheldon Newhouse pages{345--412} Distortion estimates for planar diffeomorphisms Viorel Ni\c{t}ic\u{a} pages{413--425} Journ\'e's theorem for $C^{n,\omega}$ regularity Domokos~Sz\'asz pages{427--443} Algebro-geometric methods for hard ball systems Michiko Yuri pages{445--464} Polynomial decay of correlations for intermittent sofic systems ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 237:10-12 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 07:18:42 -0400 New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect! * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 237, Issues 10-12, Pages 1317-1688 (15 July 2008) Perspectives in Fluid Dynamics Edited by Tudor Ratiu and Genevieve Raugel http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2008-997629989-691687 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Page IFC 2) Introduction Page v Tudor Ratiu and Genevieve Raugel 3) Euler equations are not exactly controllable by a finite-dimensional external force Pages 1317-1323 Armen Shirikyan 4) Vanishing viscosity limit for incompressible flow inside a rotating circle Pages 1324-1333 M.C. Lopes Filho, A.L. Mazzucato and H.J. Nussenzveig Lopes 5) The Picard iterates for the Navier-Stokes equations in L3(R3) Pages 1334-1345 Pierre Gilles Lemarie-Rieusset 6) Weak-strong uniqueness criteria for the critical quasi-geostrophic equation Pages 1346-1351 Fabien Marchand 7) Stochastic 3D Navier-Stokes equations in a thin domain and its a-approximation Pages 1352-1367 Igor Chueshov and Sergei Kuksin 8) Statistical estimates for channel flows driven by a pressure gradient Pages 1368-1387 F. Ramos, R. Rosa and R. Temam 9) On the vorticity of the Oseen problem in a half plane Pages 1388-1421 Matthieu Hillairet and Peter Wittwer 10) On time analyticity of the Navier-Stokes equations in a rotating frame with spatially almost periodic data Pages 1422-1428 Yoshikazu Giga, Hideaki Jo, Alex Mahalov and Tsuyoshi Yoneda 11) Compatibility conditions to allow some large amplitude WKB analysis for Burger's type systems Pages 1429-1443 C. Cheverry and M. Houbad 12) Existence and uniqueness results for the Boussinesq system with data in Lorentz spaces Pages 1444-1460 Raphael Danchin and Marius Paicu 13) Analysis of the semi-geostrophic shallow water equations Pages 1461-1465 M.J.P. Cullen 14) Layered incompressible fluid flow equations in the limit of low Mach number and strong stratification Pages 1466-1487 Eduard Feireisl, Antonin Novotny and Hana Petzeltova 15) A note on interface dynamics for convection in porous media Pages 1488-1497 Diego Cordoba, Francisco Gancedo and Rafael Orive 16) Modified particle filter methods for assimilating Lagrangian data into a point-vortex model Pages 1498-1506 Elaine T. Spiller, Amarjit Budhiraja, Kayo Ide and Chris K.R.T. Jones 17) Ghost manifolds in slow-fast systems, with applications to unsteady fluid flow separation Pages 1507-1529 Amit Surana and George Haller 18) Small-amplitude Stokes and solitary gravity water waves with an arbitrary distribution of vorticity Pages 1530-1538 M.D. Groves and E. Wahlen 19) Asymmetric periodic traveling wave patterns of two-dimensional Boussinesq systems Pages 1539-1552 Min Chen and Gerard Iooss 20) Galloping instability of viscous shock waves Pages 1553-1601 Benjamin Texier and Kevin Zumbrun 21) The linear and nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability for the quasi-isobaric profile Pages 1602-1639 Olivier Lafitte 22) Space propagation of instabilities in Zakharov equations Pages 1640-1654 Guy Metivier 23) mKdV and its Birkhoff coordinates Pages 1655-1662 T. Kappeler, B. Schaad and P. Topalov 24) Global well-posedness for 2D polymeric fluid models and growth estimate Pages 1663-1675 Nader Masmoudi, Ping Zhang and Zhifei Zhang 25) Global existence in the energy space of the solutions of a non-Newtonian fluid Pages 1676-1686 Marius Paicu 26) Index of authors and papers to this issue Pages 1687-1688 ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 21:7 From: Liz Martin Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:46:47 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 21, Issue 7, July 2008 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: URL: http://stacks.iop.org/0951-7715/21/i=7 Pages: T101--112, R139--202, 1413--1654 OPEN PROBLEMS T101 Some open problems in real and complex dynamical systems Yu~Ilyashenko T109 Orbits' statistics in chaotic dynamical systems V~Arnold INVITED ARTICLE R139 Nonlinear waves in Bose--Einstein condensates: physical relevance and mathematical techniques R~Carretero-Gonz\'alez, D~J~Frantzeskakis and P~G~Kevrekidis PAPERS 1413 Kinetic transport in the two-dimensional periodic Lorentz gas Jens~Marklof and Andreas~Str\"ombergsson 1423 Positive-entropy geodesic flows on nilmanifolds Leo~T~Butler and Vassili~Gelfreich 1435 Integral means spectrum of random conformal snowflakes D~Beliaev 1443 On the equivalence of the multifractal centred Hausdorff measure and the multifractal packing measure Meifeng~Dai 1455 Chaotic response of the 2D semi-geostrophic and 3D quasi-geostrophic equations to gentle periodic forcing Dorian~Goldman and Robert~J~McCann 1471 On stationary patterns of a reaction--diffusion model with autocatalysis and saturation law Rui~Peng, Junping~Shi and Mingxin~Wang 1489 The Kawahara equation in weighted Sobolev spaces Netra~Khanal, Jiahong~Wu and Juan-Ming~Yuan 1507 Pod systems: an equivariant ordinary differential equation approach to dynamical systems on a spatial domain Toby~Elmhirst, Ian~Stewart and Michael~Doebeli 1533 Inertial manifolds for a Smoluchowski equation on a circle Jesenko~Vukadinovic 1547 Generic Hopf--Ne{\u{\i}}mark--Sacker bifurcations in feed-forward systems Henk~W~Broer and Gert~Vegter 1579 The simplest problem in the collective dynamics of neural networks: is synchrony stable? Marc~Timme and Fred~Wolf 1601 On sensitive sets in topological dynamics Xiangdong~Ye and Ruifeng~Zhang 1621 On steady third grade fluids equations Adriana~Valentina~Busuioc, Drago{\c{s}}Iftimie and Marius~Paicu 1637 Dominated splitting and zero volume for incompressible three flows Vitor~Araujo and M\'ario~Bessa ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control 13:2 From: Romas Baronas Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:50:54 +0300 Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control, ISSN 1392-5113, Volume 13, Number 2, 2008 A free on-line edition is available at: http://www.lana.lt/journal/issues.php TABLE OF CONTENTS Vector Additive Decomposition for 2D Fractional Diffusion Equation, pp. 137-143, N. Abrashina-Zhadaeva, N. Romanova. Existence Theorems for Some Classes of Boundary Value Problems Involving the P(X)-Laplacian, pp.145-158, Ionica Andrei. A Two-Dimentional Discrete Limit Theorem in the Space of Analytic Functions for Mellin Transforms of the Riemann Zeta-Function, pp. 159-167, V. Balinskaite, A. Laurineikas. Transient Mixed Convection Flow of a Second-Grade Visco-Elastic Fluid over a Vertical Surface, pp. 169-179, R.A. Damseh, A.S. Shatnawi, A.J. Chamkha, H.M. Duwairi. Stokes' Problems for an Incompressible Couple Stress Fluid, pp. 181-190, M. Devakar, T.K.V. Iyengar. Numerical Simulation of Electrochemical Processes at a Tubular Electrode. Application to Spectroscopy, pp. 191-199, O.V. Klymenko, J. Kulys. Fuzzy Hammerstein Model of Nonlinear Plant, pp. 201-212, R. Liutkevieius. Conjugate Heat Transfer for a Vertical Flat Plate with Heat Generation Effect, pp. 213-223, A.A. Mamun, Z.R. Chowdhury, M.A. Azim, M.A. Maleque. The Dynamics of Food Web Model with Defensive Switching Property, pp. 225-240, R.K. Naji, I.H. Kasim. Analogue Electrical Circuit for Simulation of the Duffing-Holmes Equation, pp. 241-252, Tamaseviciute, A. Tamasevicius, G. Mykolaitis, S. Bumeliene, E. Lindberg. Chaos Synchronization Using Active Control and Backstepping Control: A Comparative Analysis, pp. 253-261, U.E. Vincent. For a paper submission, please refer to http://www.lana.lt/journal Dr. Romas Baronas, Journal Secretary, Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control