Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 09, Number 01 January 15, 2009 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Spring School on Fluid Mechanics and Geophysics Scientific Computation & Differential Eqns (SciCADE) Announcement of Chronic Wasting Disease modeling position Permanent positions at INRIA Two full-time Faculty positions Contents, Inverse Problems 25:1 Contents, Communications in Mathematical Sciences 6:4 Contents, Nonlinearity 22:1 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 238:2 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 11:2 Contents, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 5:1 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: Spring School on Fluid Mechanics and Geophysics From: Weizhu Bao Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:48:19 +0800 (SGT) The Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore will host the Spring School on ``Fluid Mechanics and Geophysics of Environmental Hazards ''during 19 April -- 2 May, 2009 and fund support for students are available. Overview: Environmental hazards, such as tsunamis triggered by earthquakes, tropical cyclones, monsoon flooding, volcanic eruptions and landslides, are all too familiar in Asia and the Pacific region, and have been the cause of catastrophic disasters. These hazards are a consequence of mechanical processes in the earth, ocean and atmosphere, and in order to understand them and hence to develop well-informed strategies for the mitigation of future disasters, it is necessary to develop sound scientific theory based on geophysical observations and data, the principles of fluid and solid mechanics, and an appropriate combination of mathematical and computational analysis. This School is intended to focus on fluid mechanical aspects, and is aimed at students who have already graduated in mathematics, physics or engineering, and who wish to undertake research in this broad area. It is intended to bring students rapidly to current research frontiers in the fluid mechanics of environmental hazards. The School will start with introductory and motivational lectures on the fundamentals of geophysical fluid dynamics, and on geophysical hazard and risk in atmosphere and ocean contexts, and will then focus on four specific environmental hazards: (i) typhoons and tropical cyclones; (ii) monsoons and flooding; (iii) tsunamis; and (iv) pollution of atmosphere, ocean and the urban environment. The School will include workshop activity in which groups of students will study key papers cited by the lecturers, and will be encouraged to identify and formulate new model problems that need to be solved in each of the above four areas. In this way, it is envisaged that the students will be fully involved in active and collaborative research activity. Fund support for students: Student registration is now invited. Grants to cover travel and local subsistence costs will be awarded on a competitive basis. Applications from students resident in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as Singapore, are particularly encouraged. Limited places may be available for applicants from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, or further afield. For more information, please refer to the webpage at URL: http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/09fluidss/index.htm ------ Subject: Scientific Computation & Differential Eqns (SciCADE) From: Yajuan Sun Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:34:23 -0500 2009 International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations (SciCADE09) Beijing Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China May 25-29, 2009. http://lsec.cc.ac.cn/~scade09/ REGISTRATION, ACCOMMODATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Registration, accommodation bookings and abstract submission are now OPEN. More information can be found on our website. If you require assistance, especially regarding Chinese visa application, please contact Ms. Cuiling Lan (cllan@cashq.ac.cn). NEW TALENT AWARD: The deadline for New Talent Award is January 26, 2009. The winner of the best paper will be invited to give a plenary talk at SciCADE09 in Beijing. All local expenses and conference registration fee will be covered for this speaker. Enquiries or submission should be sent directly to the organizer of SciCADE09, Jialing Hong (hjl@lsec.cc.ac.cn). IMPORTANT DATES: * Jan 26, 2009: Deadline for New Talent Award * March 1, 2009: Deadline for early-bird registration and accommodation booking * March 15, 2009: Deadline for abstract submission * March 15, 2009: Deadline for John Butcher Award * April 20, 2009: Deadline for SciCADE13 open bid * May 25??29, 2009: SciCADE09 conference Please contact scicade09@lsec.cc.ac.cn if you have any questions concerning SciCADE09. ------ Subject: Announcement of Chronic Wasting Disease modeling position From: Raymond Spiteri Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:22:02 -0500 A cross-disciplinary research team studying the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the Canadian Prairies is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to take the lead in creating mathematical models to inform understanding as to how intervention strategies will affect spread of CWD and cervid population dynamics. The modeler will work closely with established researchers on infectious disease in the School of Public Health and Department of Computer Science, and with researchers and students in the Western College of Veterinary Medicine conducting an ongoing field studies on the movement and health status of deer populations, investigating the impact of intervention strategies and vaccination. Applicants should have earned a doctoral degree in mathematics, Computer Science, physics or engineering or other technical discipline, have past experience in building or analyzing models of infectious disease spread, familiarity with applied mathematics (including differential equations, probability theory, and some knowledge of statistics), exposure to programming and debugging in one or more object-oriented programming languages, and an interest in applications of modeling to animal and veterinary health. Exposure to epidemiology, and previous work with ecological modeling or individual-based simulation models is desirable but not required. Funding is currently available for a 1- year postdoctoral positional position, with possible extension to 2 years, starting immediately. Applications will be considered until February 15, 2009. Interested applicants should write to Dr. Cheryl Waldner at cheryl.waldner@usask.ca to apply and for further information. ------ Subject: Permanent positions at INRIA From: Jacques Henry Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:16:20 +0100 Permanent positions at various levels are opened at INRIA in computer sciences and applied mathematics http://www.inria.fr/travailler/metiers/recherche/chercheurs/chercheur.en.html In our team Anubis in Bordeaux we are particularly interested in applied mathematicians with background in applications to biology, population dynamics, cell dynamics, epidemiology, cancerology, neurosciences. ------ Subject: Two full-time Faculty positions From: Anne Lemaitre Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:03:38 +0100 Dear Colleagues, please find here the information about Two full-time Faculty positions (m/w) (professsor) in our department, oriented to applied mathematics, Complex Systems. http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/jobs/liste_emplois The two positions are really open, do not hesitate to send the present message to any good candidate. The profile is very wide; the excellence of the candidates and the quality of the research and teaching projects will be the first criterions of selection. The deadline for the applications is : 27/02/2009. The university is french speaking, but the selection will not be based on this criterion. The future professor will be globally evaluated after 2 years, and should prove his knowledge of french at that moment. Please send this announcement widely to your collaborators and contact me for any question. Anne ------ Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems 25:1 From: Laura Smith Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:37:40 +0000 INVERSE PROBLEMS Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2009 Article numbers: 010201--015014 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/0266-5611/25/1 EDITORIAL 010201 Inverse Problems' 25th year of publication William W Symes (Editor-in-Chief) PAPERS 015001 Reflectance optical tomography in epithelial tissues Pedro Gonz\'alez-Rodr\' \i guez and Arnold D Kim 015002 A scaled gradient projection method for constrained image deblurring S Bonettini, R Zanella and L Zanni 015003 State estimation in quantum homodyne tomography with noisy data Jean-Marie Aubry, Cristina Butucea and Katia Meziani 015004 Uniqueness for the determination of unknown boundary and impedance with the homogeneous Robin condition Valeria Bacchelli 015005 A forward--backward splitting algorithm for the minimization of non-smooth convex functionals in Banach space Kristian Bredies 015006 Dual filtered backprojection for micro-rotation confocal microscopy Danai Laksameethanasan, Sami S Brandt, Olivier Renaud and Spencer L Shorte 015007 The discrete hungry Lotka--Volterra system and a new algorithm for computing matrix eigenvalues Akiko Fukuda, Emiko Ishiwata, Masashi Iwasaki and Yoshimasa Nakamura 015008 MUSIC electromagnetic imaging with enhanced resolution for small inclusions Xudong Chen and Yu Zhong 015009 A multi-resolution technique based on shape optimization for the reconstruction of homogeneous dielectric objects M Benedetti, D Lesselier, M Lambert and A Massa 015010 A PDE-constrained SQP algorithm for optical tomography based on the frequency-domain equation of radiative transfer Hyun Keol Kim and Andreas H Hielscher 015011 The stability of inverse scattering with fixed energy Mikl\'os Horv\'ath and M\'arton Kiss 015012 Detecting tangential dislocations on planar faults from traction free surface observations Ioan R Ionescu and Darko Volkov 015013 Fast regularizing sequential subspace optimization in Banach spaces F Sch\"opfer and T Schuster 015014 A fully no-sampling formulation of the linear sampling method for three-dimensional inverse electromagnetic scattering problems M Brignone, G Bozza, R Aramini, M Pastorino and M Piana 015015 Morozov's discrepancy principle and Tikhonov-type functionals Thomas Bonesky ------ Subject: Contents, Communications in Mathematical Sciences 6:4 From: Communications in Math Sciences Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:08:06 -0600 Communications in Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Vol 6, No. 4, December 2008 Table of Contents Full articles are online at www.intlpress.com/CMS Regular Articles Front propagation in infinite cylinders. I. A variational approach C.B. Muratov and M. Novaga p.799-826 Convergence of a time discretization for a class of non-Newtonian fluid flow E. Emmrich p.827-843 S-ROCK methods for stiff Ito SDEs A. Abdulle and T. Li p.845-868 Vanishing viscosity and the accumulation of vorticity on the boundary J.P. Kelliher p.869-880 Visibility of point clouds and exploratory path planning in unkown environments Y. Landa and R. Tsai p.881-913 Metrics defined by Bregman Divergences P. Chen, Y. Chen, and M. Rao p.915-926 Metrics defined by Bregman divergences: Part 2 P. Chen, Y. Chen, and M. Rao p.927-948 A unified view on the rotational symmetry of equilibiria of nematic polymers, dipolar nematic polymers, and polymers in higher dimensional space H. Wang and P. Hoffman p.949-974 Finite-dimensional description of the long-term dynamics for the 2D Doi-Hess model for liquid crystalline polymers in shear flow J. Vukadinovic p.975-993 Gaussian beam methods for the Schrodinger equation in the semi-classical regime: Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations S. Jin, H. Wu, and X. Yang p.995-1020 On/off-state design of semiconductor doping models M. Burger, R. Pinnau, and M.-T. Wolfram p.1021-1041 International and domestic trading and wealth distribution B. During and G. Toscani p.1043-1058 Finite volume schemes on Lorentzian manifolds P. Amorim, P.G. LeFloch, and B. Okutmustur P.1059-1086 Fast Communication Error estimate of force-based quasicontinuous method P.B. Ming p.1087-1095 ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 22:1 From: Liz Martin Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:06:27 +0000 NONLINEARITY Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2009 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: URL: http://stacks.iop.org/0951-7715/22/i=1 Pages: C1--18, R1--44, 1--238} COVER ILLUSTRATION C1 {\it Ab initio} self-consistent laser theory and random lasers Hakan~E~T\"ureci, A~Douglas~Stone, Li~Ge, Stefan~Rotter and Robert~J~Tandy INVITED ARTICLE R1 The role of self-similarity in singularities of partial differential equations Jens~Eggers and Marco~A~Fontelos PAPERS 1 Quantitative recurrence properties for group actions Dong~Han~Kim 11 On a novel integrable generalization of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation J~Lenells and A~S~Fokas 29 Moment determinants as isomonodromic tau functions M~Bertola 51 An assembly of steadily translating bubbles in a Hele--Shaw channel Darren~Crowdy 67 Numerical approximations of a norm-preserving gradient flow and applications to an optimal partition problem Qiang~Du and Fanghua~Lin 85 Travelling waves for a thin liquid film with surfactant on an inclined plane Vahagn~Manukian and Stephen~Schecter 123 Hyperbolicity of the trace map for the weakly coupled Fibonacci Hamiltonian David~Damanik and Anton~Gorodetski 145 A strong limit theorem in the Kac--Zwanzig model G~Ariel and E~Vanden-Eijnden 163 Dynamics with choice Lev~Kapitanski and Sanja~\v Zivanovi\'c 187 Motion in a random force field Dmitry~Dolgopyat and Leonid~Koralov 213 Horseshoes in the forced van der Pol system Radu~Haiduc ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 238:2 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:39:39 -0500 New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect! * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 238, Issue 2, Pages 117-232 (15 January 2009) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2009-997619997-816054 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Two-scale modeling of adsorption processes at structured surfaces Pages 117-125 Julia Kundin, Maria Radke de Cuba, Sibylle Gemming, Heike Emmerich 2) Multistable solitons in higher-dimensional cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrodinger lattices Pages 126-136 C. Chong, R. Carretero-Gonzalez, B.A. Malomed, P.G. Kevrekidis 3) Bifurcations from regular quotient networks: A first insight Pages 137-155 Manuela A.D. Aguiar, Ana Paula S. Dias, Martin Golubitsky, Maria da Conceicao A. Leite 4) From the conserved Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation to a coalescing particles model Pages 156-161 Paolo Politi, Daniel ben-Avraham 5) Generalized recurrence plots for the analysis of images from spatially distributed systems Pages 162-169 Angelo Facchini, Chiara Mocenni, Antonio Vicino 6) Correlation-anti-correlation transition by state-dependent Poisson noise Pages 170-174 Edoardo Daly, Amilcare Porporato 7) Synchronization of a large number of continuous one-dimensional stochastic elements with time-delayed mean-field coupling Pages 175-183 Andrey Pototsky, Natalia Janson 8) Bistability in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with drift Pages 184-196 S.M. Houghton, S.M. Tobias, E. Knobloch, M.R.E. Proctor 9) Numerical computation of the asymptotic size of the rotation domain for the Arnold family Pages 197-208 Tere M. Seara, Jordi Villanueva 10) Time-space white noise eliminates global solutions in reaction-diffusion equations Pages 209-215 Julian Fernandez Bonder, Pablo Groisman 11) Duration of transient oscillations in ring networks of unidirectionally coupled neurons Pages 216-225 Yo Horikawa, Hiroyuki Kitajima 12) Dynamics of a charged particle in a progressive plane wave Pages 226-232 A. Bourdier ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 11:2 From: Liwei Ning Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:13:52 -0600 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B (DCDS-B) Volume: 11, Number: 2, March 2009 http://aimsciences.org/journals/dcdsB/dcdsb_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: DCDSB112 Password: free Jose M. 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Kogut pages{283--314} Boundary velocity suboptimal control of incompressible flow in cylindrically perforated domain Ben-Yu Guo and Yu-Jian Jiao pages{315--345} Mixed generalized Laguerre-Fourier spectral method for exterior problem of Navier-Stokes equations Mats Gyllenberg and Ping Yan pages{347--352} On the number of limit cycles for three dimensional Lotka-Volterra systems Seung-Yeal Ha and Mitsuru Yamazaki pages{353--364} $L^p$-stability estimates for the spatially inhomogeneous discrete velocity Boltzmann model Tomasz Kapela and Piotr Zgliczynski pages{365--385} A Lohner-type algorithm for control systems and ordinary differential inclusions Junjiang Lai and Jianguo Huang pages{387--419} A finite element method for vibration analysis of elastic plate-plate structures James Nolen and Jack Xin pages{421--442} KPP fronts in a one-dimensional random drift Michael A. Saum and Tim P. Schulze pages{443--457} The role of processing speed in determining step patterns during directional epitaxy Zhao-Han Sheng, Tingwen Huang, Jian-Guo Du, Qiang Mei and Hui Huang pages{459--477} Study on self-adaptive proportional control method for a class of output models Hui Wan and Jing-An Cui pages{479--496} A model for the transmission of malaria Hongyun Wang, Hong Zhou and M. Gregory Forest pages{497--517} Sheared nematic liquid crystal polymer monolayers Harvey A. R. Williams, Lisa J. Fauci and Donald P. Gaver III pages{519--540} Evaluation of interfacial fluid dynamical stresses using the immersed boundary method ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 5:1 From: Liwei Ning Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:59:26 -0600 Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (JIMO) Volume: 5, Number: 1, February 2009 http://aimsciences.org/journals/jimo/contents.jsp We offer one month free online access to the full paper of JIMO all papers. 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