Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 09, Number 03 February 15, 2009 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Spring school on evolution equations 101st Statistical Mechanics Conference Summer school on ODEs with discontinuous right-hand side Contents, Kinetic and Related Models 2:1 Contents, Advances in Mathematics of Communications 3:1 Contents, Inverse Problems and Imaging 3:1 Contents, Inverse Problems 25:2 Now online: Inverse Problems' special section Contents, Nonlinearity 22:3 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 238:5 Contents, Networks and Heterogeneous Media 4:1 Submissions to nls-net must be addressed to: Comments and suggestions are also welcome. 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Further information can be found at www.math.tu-berlin.de/spring09/ Lectures: * Eduard Feireisl (Prague) Singular limits in thermodynamics of viscous fluids * Stig Larsson (Goteborg) Numerical solution of stochastic partial differential equations driven by noise * Mechthild Thalhammer (Innsbruck) Time-splitting spectral methods for nonlinear Schrodinger equations * Julien Vovelle (Lyon) Stochastic perturbation of scalar conservation laws Participants may present their results in short communications or in a poster session. ------ Subject: 101st Statistical Mechanics Conference From: Joel Lebowitz Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:38:38 -0500 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT 101ST STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, BUSCH CAMPUS, HILL CENTER, ROOM 114 SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, MAY 10-12, 2008 Dear Colleague: You are cordially invited to participate in the 101st Statistical Mechanics Conference at Rutgers University, May 10-12, 2009. At this meeting we will celebrate the 70th birthday and achievement of our distinguished colleague, Yoseph (Joe) Imry. Here is a tentative partial list of speakers: Douglas Abraham, Natan Andrei, Thierry Bodineau, Gunduz Caginalp, Predrag Cvitanovic, Gregory Falkovich, Jack Harris, David Huse, Aharon Kapitulnik, Gady Kozma, Ron Levy, Roberto Livi, Gautam Menon, Alan Middleton, Kathryn Moler, David Mukamel, Bruno Nachtergaele, Stefano Olla, David Ruelle, Doug Scalapino, Beate Schmittman, Moshe Schechter, Gerd Schoen, Anirvan Sengupta, Israel Michael Sigal, Sara Solla, Tom Spencer, Frank Stillinger, Cedric Villani, John Weeks, Michael Widom, Peter Winkler, Fred Wu and Amir Yacoby. A more complete program will be sent out soon. You can get updated additional information about ALL ASPECTS of the meeting at our site: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/events/smm/index.html. Please respond at: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/events/smm/res-formI.html. We would like to know of any colleagues or students who should be added to our mailing list, or positions wanted or available, etc. Looking forward to seeing you here in May. With best wishes, Joel ------ Subject: Summer school on ODEs with discontinuous right-hand side From: Alexander Ostermann Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:44:30 -0500 The 8th "Dobbiaco Summer School on Numerical Analysis" will take place on June 22-26, 2009 at Dobbiaco/Toblach, Italy. The topic of this year will be ODEs with Discontinuous Right-Hand Side: Theory and Applications During the school, three leading specialists in the field will present a series of twelve 90 minutes long lectures on the topic. The school is intended for PhD students and young researchers. Please note that the number of participants is limited. Lecturers will be: Luca Dieci (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Elio Usai (University of Cagliari, Italy Nicola Guglielmi (University of L?Aquila, Italy) Further information on the summer school can be found at: http://www.dmi.units.it/dobbiaco/ Organizers: Alfredo Bellen (Trieste) Alexander Ostermann (Innsbruck) ------ Subject: Contents, Kinetic and Related Models 2:1 From: Liwei Ning Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:49:26 -0600 Kinetic and Related Models (KRM) Volume: 2, Number: 1, March 2009 http://aimsciences.org/journals/krm/contents.jsp We offer one month free online access to the full paper of KRM all papers. Here below is the login information: User name: KRM21 Password: free21 Giuseppe Ali and John Hunter pages{1--37} Orientation waves in a director field with rotational inertia N. Besse, F. Berthelin, Y. Brenier and P. Bertrand pages{39--80} The multi-water-bag equations for collisionless kinetic modeling Alexander Blokhin and Alesya Ibragimova pages{81--107} 1D numerical simulation of the mep mathematical model in ballistic diode problem C.-M. Brauner, J. Hulshof and L. Lorenzi pages{109--134} Stability of the travelling wave in a 2D weakly nonlinear Stefan problem Valeriano Comincioli, Lucia Della Croce and Giuseppe Toscani pages{135--149} A Boltzmann-like equation for choice formation Bernard Ducomet, Alexander Zlotnik and Ilya Zlotnik pages{151--179} On a family of finite-difference schemes with approximate transparent boundary conditions for a generalized 1D Schr\"odinger equation Irene M. Gamba, Maria Pia Gualdani and Christof Sparber pages{181--189} A note on the time decay of solutions for the linearized Wigner-Poisson system Ingenuin Gasser pages{191--204} Modelling and simulation of a solar updraft tower Yan Guo, Juhi Jang and Ning Jiang pages{205--214} Local Hilbert expansion for the Boltzmann equation Alex Mahalov, Mohamed Moustaoui and Basil Nicolaenko pages{215--229} Three-dimensional instabilities in non-parallel shear stratified flows Giovanni Russo and Francis Filbet pages{231--250} Semilagrangian schemes applied to moving boundary problems for the BGK model of rarefied gas dynamics ------ Subject: Contents, Advances in Mathematics of Communications 3:1 From: Liwei Ning Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:42:36 -0600 Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC) Volume: 3, Number: 1, February 2009 http://aimsciences.org/journals/amc/amc_online.jsp We offer one month free online access to the full paper of AMC all papers. Here below is the login information: User name: AMC31 Password: free11 Douglas A. Leonard, \page1--11 A weighted module view of integral closures of affine domains of type I M.~B.~Paterson, D.~R.~Stinson and R.~Wei, \page13--27 Combinatorial batch codes Tatsuya Maruta, Ayako Kikui and Yuri Yoshida, \page29--34 On the uniqueness of $(48,6)$-arcs in PG$(2,9)$ Konstantinos Drakakis, Roderick Gow and Scott Rickard, \page35--52 Common distance vectors between Costas arrays P. Charters, \page53--58 Finding an asymptotically bad family of $q$-th power residue codes Yves Edel and Alexander Pott, \page59--81 A new almost perfect nonlinear function which is not quadratic Andrew Klapper and Andrew Mertz, \page83--95 The two covering radius of the two error correcting BCH code David Auger, Irene Charon, Iiro Honkala, Olivier Hudry and Antoine Lobstein, \page97--114 Edge number, minimum degree, maximum independent set, radius and diameter in twin-free graphs ------ Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems and Imaging 3:1 From: Liwei Ning Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:04:04 -0600 Inverse Problems and Imaging (IPI) Volume: 3, Number: 1, February 2009 http://aimsciences.org/journals/ipi/ipi_Sup.jsp We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of IPI all papers. Colin Guillarmou and Antonio Sa Barreto pages{1--15} Inverse problems for Einstein manifolds Jaan Janno and Kairi Kasemets pages{17--41} A positivity principle for parabolic integro-differential equations and inverse problems with final overdetermination Yunho Kim and Luminita A. Vese pages{43--68} Image recovery using functions of bounded variation and Sobolev spaces of negative differentiability A. K. Kulshreshth, A. Alpers, G. T. Herman, E. Knudsen, L. Rodek \& H. F. Poulsen pages{69--85} A greedy method for reconstructing polycrystals from three-dimensional X-ray diffraction data Matti Lassas, Eero Saksman and Samuli Siltanen pages{87--122} Discretization-invariant Bayesian inversion and Besov space priors Armin Lechleiter pages{123--138} The factorization method is independent of transmission eigenvalues Alexei Rybkin pages{139--149} On the boundary control approach to inverse spectral and scattering theory for Schrodinger operators ------ Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems 25:2 From: Laura Smith Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:41:56 +0000 INVERSE PROBLEMS Volume 25, Issue 2, February 2009 Article numbers: 020201--025006 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/0266-5611/25/2 SPECIAL SECTION ON TESTING INVERSION ALGORITHMS AGAINST EXPERIMENTAL DATA: 3D TARGETS GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION 020201 Testing inversion algorithms against experimental data{:} 3D targets Am\'elie Litman, Lorenzo Crocco and Guest Editors SPECIAL SECTION PAPERS 024001 Continuing with the Fresnel database: experimental setup and improvements in 3D scattering measurements J M Geffrin and P Sabouroux 024002 3D microwave imaging via preliminary support reconstruction: testing on the Fresnel 2008 database Ilaria Catapano, Lorenzo Crocco, Michele D'Urso and Tommaso Isernia 024003 Three-dimensional reconstruction from real data using a conjugate gradient-coupled dipole method Patrick C Chaumet and Kamal Belkebir 024004 Three-dimensional quantitative microwave imaging from measured data with multiplicative smoothing and value picking regularization J\"urgen De Zaeytijd and Ann Franchois 024005 Microwave imaging from experimental data within a Bayesian framework with realistic random noise C Eyraud, A Litman, A H\'erique and W Kofman 024006 Application of the multiplicative regularized contrast source inversion method on 3D experimental Fresnel data Maokun Li, Aria Abubakar and Peter M van den Berg 024007 Reconstruction of 3D objects from multi-frequency experimental data with a fast DBIM-BCGS method Chun Yu, Mengqing Yuan and Qing Huo Liu PAPERS 025001 Augmented Tikhonov regularization Bangti Jin and Jun Zou 025002 A Newton root-finding algorithm for estimating the regularization parameter for solving ill-conditioned least squares problems Jodi L Mead and Rosemary A Renaut 025003 The relationship between the hyperbolic Nizhnik--Novikov--Veselov equation and the stationary Davey--Stewartson II equation Zi-Xiang Zhou 025004 An implicit radial basis function based reconstruction approach to electromagnetic shape tomography Naren Naik, Rick Beatson, Jerry Eriksson and Elijah van Houten 025005 Seismic imaging with the generalized Radon transform: a curvelet transform perspective M V de Hoop, H Smith, G Uhlmann and R D van der Hilst 025006 On Tikhonov regularization with non-convex sparsity constraints Clemens A Zarzer ------ Subject: Now online: Inverse Problems' special section From: Zoe Crossman Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:44:02 +0000 Now online: Inverse Problems' special section on testing inversion algorithms against experimental data: 3D targets Inverse Problems is pleased to announce that its latest special section, on testing inversion algorithms against experimental data: 3D targets, is now freely available online until 12th of March 2009 at http://herald.iop.org/SPECD1/m29/avh//link/2338 This special section was Guest Edited by Amelie Litman and Lorenzo Crocco and contains the results of the application of several electromagnetic inverse scattering methods to the experimental database provided by the Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France and constituted by three-dimensional dielectric targets. We are pleased to make the Guest Editors' introduction and the two articles 'Continuing with the Fresnel database: experimental setup and improvements in 3D scattering measurements' by J M Geffrin and P Sabouroux and 'Three-dimensional quantitative microwave imaging from measured data with multiplicative smoothing and value picking regularization' by Juergen De Zaeytijd and Ann Franchois featured articles on the journal homepage; to read them for free visit http://herald.iop.org/SPECD2/m29/avh/link/2339 We hope you enjoy reading these articles as much as we have. Kate Watt Publisher, Inverse Problems ip@iop.org ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 22:3 From: Emma Avery Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:40:55 +0000 NONLINEARITY Volume 22, Issue 3, March 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=3 Pages: 525--710 525 Schmidt games and Markov partitions Jimmy Tseng 545 Thickness and thinness of uniform Cantor sets for doubling measures Dan Han, Lisha Wang and Shengyou Wen 553 Regularity criteria for the 3D density-dependent Boussinesq equations Jishan Fan and Tohru Ozawa 569 Synchronization of delayed chaotic systems with parameter mismatches by using intermittent linear state feedback Tingwen Huang, Chuandong Li, Wenwu Yu and Guanrong Chen 585 Amplitude--phase dynamics near the locking region of two delay-coupled semiconductor lasers H Erzgr\"aber, E Wille, B Krauskopf and I Fischer 601 Dynamical transitions of Turing patterns Hans G Kaper, Shouhong Wang and Masoud Yari 627 Hopf bifurcation with $S_N$-symmetry Ana Paula S Dias and Ana Rodrigues 667 Attractors of non-autonomous reaction--diffusion equations Haitao Song, Shan Ma and Chengkui Zhong 683 Blow-up in multidimensional aggregation equations with mildly singular interaction kernels Andrea L Bertozzi, Jos\'e A Carrillo and Thomas Laurent ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 238:5 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:19:13 -0500 New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect! * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 238, Issue 5, Pages 477-602 (15 March 2009) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2009-997619994-917052 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Multi-dimensional vortex quasi-simple waves Pages 477-489 Leila Rajaee, Homayoon Eshraghi 2) Coupled oscillator models with no scale separation Pages 490-501 Philip Du Toit, Igor Mezic, Jerrold Marsden 3) Exact analytic self-similar solution of a wave attractor field Pages 502-505 Leo R.M. Maas 4) Pacemaker-guided noise-induced spatial periodicity in excitable media Pages 506-515 Marko Gosak, Marko Marhl, Matjaz Perc 5) Bubbling transition to spatial mode excitation in an extended dynamical system Pages 516-525 J.D. Szezech Jr., S.R. Lopes, R.L. Viana, I.L. Caldas 6) Bi-Hamiltonian structure in Frenet-Serret frame Pages 526-530 E. Abadoglu, H. Gumral 7) Dynamics and stability of volume-scavenging drop arrays: Coarsening by capillarity Pages 531-539 Henrik B. van Lengerich, Michael J. Vogel, Paul H. Steen 8) Modulation instability: The beginning Pages 540-548 V.E. Zakharov, L.A. Ostrovsky 9) Ensemble Kalman filter with the unscented transform Pages 549-562 X. Luo, I.M. Moroz 10) Triple and quadruple nested central configurations for the planar n-body problem Pages 563-571 Jaume Llibre, Luis Fernando Mello 11) Bifurcation phenomena in a convection problem with temperature dependent viscosity at low aspect ratio Pages 572-580 F. Pla, A.M. Mancho, H. Herrero 12) Boundary effects on quantum qq-breathers in a Bose-Hubbard chain Pages 581-588 Ricardo A. Pinto, Jean Pierre Nguenang, Sergej Flach 13) Novel routes to chaos through torus breakdown in non-invertible maps Pages 589-602 Zhanybai T. Zhusubaliyev, Erik Mosekilde ------ Subject: Contents, Networks and Heterogeneous Media 4:1 From: Liwei Ning Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:58:49 -0600 Networks and Heterogeneous Media (NHM) Volume: 4, Number: 1, March 2009 http://aimsciences.org/journals/ipi/ipi_Sup.jsp We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of NHM all papers. Xinfu Chen, Shin-Ichiro Ei and Masayasu Mimura ppages{1--18} Self--motion of camphor discs model and analysis Kais Ammari, Mohamed Jellouli and Michel Mehrenberger pages{19--34} Feedback stabilization of a coupled string-beam system Shi Jin, Min Tang and Houde Han pages{35--65} A uniformly second order numerical method for the one-dimensional discrete-ordinate transport equation and its diffusion limit with interface Fadia Bekkal-Brikci, Giovanna Chiorino and Khalid Boushaba pages{67--90} G1/S transition and cell population dynamics Zhongyi Huang pages{91--106} Tailored finite point method for the interface problem Mauro Garavello and Benedetto Piccoli pages{107--126} On fluido-dynamic models for urban traffic Antonin Chambolle and Gilles Thouroude pages{127--152} Homogenization of interfacial energies and construction of plane-like minimizers in periodic media through a cell problem V. V. Zhikov and S. E. Pastukhova pages{153--175} Korn inequalities on thin periodic structures