Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 08, Number 22 December 1, 2008 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: 2nd Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference Workshop in Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 23:3 Contents, Nonlinearity 21:12 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 238:1 Submissions to nls-net must be addressed to: Comments and suggestions are also welcome. 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The general topics and the special sessions proposed for the Conference (Chaos2009) include but are not limited to: Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics, Stochastic Chaos, Chemical Chaos, Data Analysis and Chaos, Hydrodynamics, Turbulence and Plasmas, Optics and Chaos, Chaotic Oscillations and Circuits, Chaos in Climate Dynamics, Geophysical Flows, Biology and Chaos, Neurophysiology and Chaos, Hamiltonian Systems, Chaos in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chaos and Solitons, Micro- and Nano- Electro-Mechanical Systems, Neural Networks and Chaos, Ecology and Economy. For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.chaos2009.net Kind regards Prof. Christos H. Skiadas Conference Chair Data Analysis and Forecasting Laboratory Technical University of Crete Chania, Crete, Greece skiadas@chaos2009.net ; skiadas@asmda.net ------ Subject: Workshop in Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs From: Workshop in Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs 2009 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:15 Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce the following event : Workshop in Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs, A celebration of Jean-Pierre Gossez's 65th birthday Place : Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) Dates : September 2-4, 2009 Confirmed lecturers : Henri Berestycki (Paris) Philippe Clement (Delft) Djairo G. de Figueiredo (Campinas) Francois de Thelin (Toulouse) Pavel Drabek (Pilsen) Ivar Ekeland (Vancouver) Jesus Hernandez (Madrid) Bernd Kawohl (Koln) Pierre-Louis Lions (Paris) Jean Mawhin (Louvain-la-Neuve) Petru Mironescu (Lyon) Mark Peletier (Eindhoven) Frederic Robert (Nice) Bernhard Ruf (Milano) Michael Struwe (Zurich) Charles Stuart (Lausanne) Juan Luis Vazquez (Madrid) Local board : D. Bonheure (ULB), A. Derlet (ULB), P. Godin (ULB), E. Lami Dozo (ULB), C. Troestler (UMH) and P. de Groen (VUB) Session organizers : - Geometry and PDEs : A. Ponce (UCL) and J. Van Schaftingen (UCL) - On the Fucik spectrum : M. Arias (UGR), J. Campos (UGR) and M. Cuesta (ULCO) - On the p-Laplacian with 1 < p $\le\infty$ : J. Fleckinger-Pelle (UT1), F. de Thelin (UT1) and P. Takac (uni-rostock) Please visit the webpage at http://wnpde09.ulb.ac.be to pre-register. Best regards, Denis Bonheure. ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 23:3 From: Liwei Ning Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:10:40 -0600 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series A (DCDS-A) Volume: 23 Number: 3 March 2009 http://aimsciences.org/journals/dcdsA/online.jsp We offer one month free online access to the full paper of DCDS-A all papers. Here bellow is the login information: User name: DCDSA233 Password: free Mohar Guha and Keith Promislow pages{617--638} Front propagation in a noisy, nonsmooth, excitable medium Angela A. Albanese and Elisabetta M. Mangino pages{639--654} A class of non-symmetric forms on the canonical simplex of $\R^d$ Mohamed Ben Ayed and Mohameden Ould Ahmedou pages{655--683} On the prescribed scalar curvature on $3$-half spheres: Multiplicity results and Morse inequalities at infinity Viviane Baladi and Daniel Smania pages{685--703} Smooth deformations of piecewise expanding unimodal maps Maciej J. Capi\'nski pages{705--725} Covering relations and the existence of topologically normally hyperbolic invariant sets J. \'Angel Cid and Pedro J. Torres pages{727--732} Solvability for some boundary value problems with $\phi$-Laplacian operators Rinaldo M. Colombo and Graziano Guerra pages{733--753} Differential equations in metric spaces with applications Sergey A. Denisov pages{755--764} Infinite superlinear growth of the gradient for the two-dimensional Euler equation Bo-Qing Dong and Zhi-Min Chen pages{765--784} Asymptotic profiles of solutions to the 2D viscous incompressible micropolar fluid flows Nicolas Forcadel, Cyril Imbert and R\'egis Monneau pages{785--826} Homogenization of some particle systems with two-body interactions and of the dislocation dynamics Bruno Fornet and Olivier Gues pages{827--845} Penalization approach to semi-linear symmetric hyperbolic problems with dissipative boundary conditions Natalie Priebe Frank and Lorenzo Sadun pages{847--865} Topology of some tiling spaces without finite local complexity Hyung Ju Hwang and Thomas P. Witelski pages{867--885} Short-time Pattern formation in thin film equations Mina Jiang and Changjiang Zhu pages{887--918} Convergence rates to nonlinear diffusion waves for $p$-system with nonlinear damping on quadrant Alexandru Krist\'aly pages{919--935} Asymptotically critical problems on higher-dimensional spheres Artur O. Lopes and Elismar R. Oliveira pages{937--955} Entropy and variational principles for holonomic probabilities of IFS Xianfeng Ma and Ercai Chen pages{957--972} Pre-image variational principle for bundle random dynamical systems Faustino Maestre and Pablo Pedregal pages{973--990} Dynamic materials for an optimal design problem under the two-dimensional wave equation Renato Manfrin pages{991--1008} On the boundedness of solutions of the equation $\,u''+(1+f(t))\,u=0\,$ Redouane Qesmi and Hans-Otto Walthe pages{1009--1033} Center-stable manifolds for differential equations with state-dependent delays Serge Tabachnikov pages{1035--1040} Birkhoff billiards are insecure Maria do Carmo Pacheco de Toledo and Sergio Muniz Oliva pages{1041--1060} A discretization scheme for an one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation with delay and its dynamics Mingxin Wang and Peter Y. H. Pang pages{1061--1072} Qualitative analysis of a diffusive variable-territory prey-predator model Fukun Zhao and Yanheng Ding pages{1073--1086} On a diffusion system with bounded potential Hans F. Weinberger, Kohkichi Kawasaki and Nanako Shigesada pages{1087--1098} Spreading speeds for a partially cooperative 2-species reaction-diffusion model ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 21:12 From: Liz Martin Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:21:57 +0000 NONLINEARITY Volume 21, Issue 12, December 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=12 Pages: T253--290, 2731--3000 OPEN PROBLEMS T253 Two limit theorems Ya~G~Sinai T255 A miscellany of basic issues on incompressible fluid equations Koji~Ohkitani T273 Nonlinearity in complexity science R~S~MacKay T283 Partial differential equations and non-diffusive structures A~Stevens and J~J~L~Vel\'azquez PAPERS 2731 Global Birkhoff coordinates for the periodic Toda lattice Andreas~Henrici and Thomas~Kappeler 2759 Refined upper bounds on the coarsening rate of discrete, ill-posed diffusion equations Selim~Esedo\={g}lu and Dejan~Slep\v{c}ev 2777 On cross-ratio distortion and Schwartz derivative A~Teplinsky 2785 Very close to the identity, the diffeomorphisms of a Euclidean space with at least 2 dimensions have their periodic orbits on regular polygons Arnaud~Dehove 2801 Chaotic spin dynamics of a long nanomagnet driven by a current Yueheng~Lan and Y~Charles Li 2825 Numerical solution of Boussinesq systems of KdV--KdV type: II. Evolution of radiating solitary waves J~L~Bona, V~A~Dougalis and D~E~Mitsotakis 2849 The dispersion-managed Ginzburg--Landau equation and its application to femtosecond~lasers Gino~Biondini 2871 Sharp errors for point-wise Poisson approximations in mixing processes Miguel~Abadi and Nicolas~Vergne 2887 Holomorphic shadowing for H\'enon maps Philip~P~Mummert 2899 Self-similar structure on the intersection of middle-($1 - 2{\beta}$) Cantor sets with ${\beta} \in (1/3, 1/2)$ Yuru~Zou, Jian~Lu and Wenxia~Li 2911 Counter-propagating two-soliton solutions in the Fermi--Pasta--Ulam lattice A~Hoffman and C~E~Wayne 2949 Solitary waves of the rotation-modified Kadomtsev--Petviashvili equation Robin~Ming~Chen, Vera~Mikyoung~Hur and Yue~Liu 2981 Quantitative views of recurrence and proximality T~K~Subrahmonian~Moothathu 2993 AUTHOR INDEX (with titles), volume 21 ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 238:1 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:41:21 -0500 New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect! * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 238, Issue 1, Pages 1-116 (1 January 2009) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2009-997619998-724185 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Page ii 2) Chevron patterns and defect lattices in an anisotropic model for electroconvection Pages 1-8 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi, Akira Matsuda 3) On the inverse scattering approach and action-angle variables for the Dullin-Gottwald-Holm equation Pages 9-19 O. Christov, S. Hakkaev 4) On the vortex formation at the moving front of lightweight granular particles Pages 20-26 Yasuaki Nohguchi, Hisashi Ozawa 5) Self-organized partially synchronous dynamics in populations of nonlinearly coupled oscillators Pages 27-37 Arkady Pikovsky, Michael Rosenblum 6) On instability of excited states of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation Pages 38-54 Scipio Cuccagna 7) Initial value problem of the Whitham equations for the Camassa-Holm equation Pages 55-66 Tamara Grava, V.U. Pierce, Fei-Ran Tian 8) Discrete solitons in nonlinear Schrodinger lattices with a power-law nonlinearity Pages 67-76 J. Cuevas, P.G. Kevrekidis, D.J. Frantzeskakis, B.A. Malomed 9) Waves and patterns in ring lattices with delays Pages 77-87 Michele Bonnin 10) Stability, mobility and power currents in a two-dimensional model for waveguide arrays with nonlinear coupling Pages 88-99 Michael Oster, Magnus Johansson 11) Hamiltonian evolution of curves in classical affine geometries Pages 100-115 Gloria Mari Beffa