Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 09, Number 04 March 1, 2009 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Workshop, Coupled Models in Energy, Hydrological and Climate Research SIAM Conf on Applications of Dynamical Systems Workshop "Math & Fire" Academic positions, University of Exeter Postdoc position in Mathematical Biology at UAB Contents, Journal of Modern Dynamics 3:1 Contents, Dynamical Systems 24:1 Contents, Inverse Problems 25:3 Nonlinearity's high-profile articles of 2008 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: Workshop, Coupled Models in Energy, Hydrological and Climate Research From: Matthias Ehrhardt Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:39:17 +0100 1st International Workshop "Coupled Models in Energy, Hydrological and Climate Research" October 5-6, 2009, WIAS, Berlin, Germany - WWW: http://www.wias-berlin.de/workshops/coupled09/ We are pleased to announce that the first international workshop on "Coupled Models in Energy, Hydrological and Climate Research" will take place at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS), Berlin, Germany during the time period October 5-6, 2009, It is jointly organized by the two research networks ``COFFEE'' (COupled Fluid Flow processes in Energy and Environmental Research), funded by the German Leibniz Association and ``AdaptHydroMod'' (Adaptive hydrological Modeling with applications in Water Management) funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research. The planned scientific topics in the fields of modeling, numerical methods and applications will include * Coupling between free and porous media flow * Coupling of flow and transport models * Coupling of atmospheric and ground water models There will be invited talks (length 40 minutes + 5 minutes for discussion) as well as contributed presentations (probably 25 minutes, 20 minutes talk plus 5 minutes for questions). If you are interested in giving a contributed talk please send your tentative title and abstract to Matthias Ehrhardt (ehrhardt@wias-berlin.de) We will request a registration fee of 40 Euros. Local Organizing Committee: H. Berninger (FU Berlin) M. Ehrhardt (WIAS) J. Fuhrmann (WIAS) R. Kornhuber (FU Berlin) Scientific Committee: P. Bastian (IWR Heidelberg) J. Fuhrmann (WIAS) R. Klein (FU Berlin) R. Kornhuber (FU Berlin) M. Ohlberger (U Muenster) ------ Subject: SIAM Conf on Applications of Dynamical Systems From: "Kirsten Wilden" Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:35:45 -0500 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS09) Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, Snowbird, Utah May 17-21, 2009 Invited Speakers: Frank Allgower, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany John Bush, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Henk Dijkstra, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Ute Ebert, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania Alain Goriely, University of Arizona Rachel Kuske, University of British Columbia, Canada Ian Melbourne, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Igor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara Tere M. Seara, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Registration is Now Available! Pre-Registration Deadline: Monday, April 13, 2009 Hotel Reservation Deadline: Monday, April 13, 2009 Registration and the preliminary program for this conference are available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/ds09/ For additional information, contact the SIAM Conference Department at meetings@siam.org. ------ Subject: Workshop "Math & Fire" From: Luis Randez Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:28:01 -0500 Workshop "Math & Fire" June 15-17 2009 http://iuma.unizar.es/maths_fire/ To show the role of Mathematics in modeling processes in combustion, and fire propagation. The WS pretends to put in contact scientists, engineers and fire controllers, to analyze actual problems and how Maths can help in searching solutions for them. TOPICS The topics to be addressed include (but are not limited to): Combustion processes, Fluid mechanics, Heat transfer, Fire at wildland-urban interfaces, Modelization, Numerical methods, ... Abstracts due: April 15th, 2009 ------ Subject: Academic positions, University of Exeter From: Peter Ashwin Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:56:13 +0000 Two Lectureships in Applied Mathematics - Systems Biology University of Exeter, U.K. (Ref 1881/1882) The School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (SECaM) of the University of Exeter seeks highly motivated individuals who will bring modelling skills from Control Theory, Dynamical Systems and/or Bayesian Statistics to catalyse inter-disciplinary research collaboration in Systems Biology. We encourage applications from Applied Mathematicians with modelling experience at any level of biological organisation - from genomes to cells to organisms to population and community dynamics. Informal enquiries should be directed to Prof. Stuart Townley (s.b.townley@ex.ac.uk), SECaM. Full details of all of these posts, including the application procedure can be found on our website at www.ex.ac.uk/jobs. Applications should be submitted electronically to hradmin@exeter.ac.uk The closing date for applications is noon on Friday 27th March 2009. All of these posts are available from 1st September 2009 or earlier by negotiation, with a start date by mutual agreement. ------ Subject: Postdoc position in Mathematical Biology at UAB From: Xujing Wang Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:12:49 -0500 Postdoctoral fellow position is available immediately for candidates interested in mathematical biology/biophysics/complex systems. Appointment will be for two years, with possible extension conditioned on funding. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and in general follows or exceeds NIH postdoctoral stipends guideline. The research will focus on the multi-scale complex system that regulates glucose homeostasis, a basic physiological process that provides energy to all cells in human body. The position involves the development and application of mathematical and computational methods for the study of the biological system across different spatial and temporal scales. For insulin release from pancreatic islets, both ODE and PDE systems will be used to study the synchronization, pattern formation, wave front propagation and noise-induced orders in the islet, which can be modeled as a network of coupled non-linear oscillators (the beta cells, as well as other islet cells). From the results derive the emergent properties and the mathematical models of beta-cell function. Higher levels will include the investigation of autocrine and paracrine regulation, the communication and signaling between multiple organs (pancreas, liver, muscle, brain, etc), and the dynamics of glucose/insulin in blood circulation. Research will be conducted in the research group of Xujing Wang (http://www.phys.uab.edu/xwang) in the Department of Physics and the Comprehensive Diabetes Center (http://diabetes.dom.uab.edu), at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). There will be ample opportunity to interact with a team of interdisciplinary investigators that includes mathematical biologist, theoretical physicist, applied mathematician, biochemist, as well as clinician and surgeon. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the research, candidates with PhD training from all quantitative basic science areas will be considered. Experience in applied mathematics, biophysics, computational modeling, scientific programming and simulation, are highly desirable. Application should consist of a one-page statement of research interest, names of three references, a CV with publication record and/or thesis topic. Please submit the application to: xujingw@uab.edu. (205) 934-8186. Both the physics department and the comprehensive diabetes center at UAB have developed a strong record of extramurally funded interdisciplinary research, and have extensive collaboration with many other department and research centers. UAB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. UAB offers competitive benefit, more information can be found at http://www.postdocs.uab.edu/. ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Modern Dynamics 3:1 From: Liwei Ning Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:01:04 -0600 Journal of Modern Dynamics (JMD) Volume: 3, Number: 1, January 2009 Please click the following DOI to review the abstract page and full paper in this issue. We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of JMD 3-1. Michael Brin, Dmitri Burago and Sergey Ivanov pages{1--11} Dynamical coherence of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms of the 3-torus 10.3934/jmd.2009.3.1 Dmitri Scheglov pages{13--34} Absence of mixing for smooth flows on genus two surfaces 10.3934/jmd.2009.3.13 Corinna Ulcigrai pages{35--49} Weak mixing for logarithmic flows over interval exchange transformations 10.3934/jmd.2009.3.35 Misha Bialy pages{51--59} Maximizing orbits for higher-dimensional convex billiards 10.3934/jmd.2009.3.51 Michael Usher pages{61--101} Floer homology in disk bundles and symplectically twisted geodesic flows 10.3934/jmd.2009.3.61 Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury and Daniel J. Rudolph pages{103--119} Nearly continuous Kakutani equivalence of adding machines 10.3934/jmd.2009.3.103 Tracy L. Payne pages{121--158} Anosov automorphisms of nilpotent Lie algebras 10.3934/jmd.2009.3.121 ------ Subject: Contents, Dynamical Systems 24:1 From: "Sternberg, Zoe" Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:49:40 -0000 Dynamical Systems, 24:1 www.informaworld.com/DS Monotonicity in chemical reaction systems Author: Murad Banaji. Pages 1-30 DOI: 10.1080/14689360802243813 Invariant scrambled sets and distributional chaos Author: Piotr Oprocha. Pages 31 - 43 DOI: 10.1080/14689360802415114 A topological classification of D-dimensional cellular automata Author: Emily Gamber Burkhead. Page 45-61 DOI: 10.1080/14689360802436961 Dynamical properties and synchronization of complex non-linear equations for detuned lasers Authors: Gamal M. Mahmoud; T. Bountis; M. A. Al-Kashif; Shaban A. Aly. Pages 63-79 DOI: 10.1080/14689360802438298 Counterexamples to the product rule for entropy Author: Paul Hulse. Pages 81-95 DOI: 10.1080/14689360802448586 On pullback attractor for non-autonomous weakly dissipative wave equations Authors: Xingjie Yan; Chengkui Zhong. Pages 97-108 DOI: 10.1080/14689360802475480 Local implications of almost global stability Authors: Rafael Potrie; Pablo Monzon. Pages 109-115 DOI: 10.1080/14689360802474657 Anosov diffeomorphisms on nilmanifolds modelled on a free nilpotent Lie group Authors: Karel Dekimpe; Kelly Verheyen. Pages 117-121 DOI: 10.1080/14689360802506177 Bifurcation of limit cycles from a centre in R^4 in resonance 1:N Authors: Claudio A. Buzzi; Jaume Llibre; Joao C. Medrado; Joan Torregrosa. Pages 123-137 DOI: 10.1080/14689360802534492 ------ Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems 25:3 From: Laura Smith Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:41:15 +0000 INVERSE PROBLEMS Volume 25, Issue 3, March 2009 Article numbers: 035001--035014 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/0266-5611/25/3 PAPERS 035001 Electro-magneto-encephalography for a three-shell model: dipoles and beyond for the spherical geometry G Dassios and A S Fokas 035002 Tikhonov regularization in Banach spaces---improved convergence rates results Torsten Hein 035003 Approximate source conditions for nonlinear ill-posed problems---chances and limitations Torsten Hein and Bernd Hofmann 035004 On multiple level-set regularization methods for inverse problems A DeCezaro, A Leit\~ao and X-C Tai 035005 A Carleman estimate and the balancing principle in the quasi-reversibility method for solving the Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation Hui Cao, Michael V Klibanov and Sergei V Pereverzev 035006 An iterative representer-based scheme for data inversion in reservoir modeling Marco A Iglesias and Clint Dawson 035007 On the identification of a coefficient function in a nonlinear wave equation Gen Nakamura, Michiyuki Watanabe and Barbara Kaltenbacher 035008 On the performance of algorithms for the minimization of $\ell_1$-penalized functionals Ignace Loris 035009 Recovering a tensor on the boundary from polarization and phase measurements S Holman 035010 Filtering for distributed mechanical systems using position measurements{:} perspectives in medical imaging Philippe Moireau, Dominique Chapelle and Patrick Le Tallec 035011 Two analytical formulae of the temperature inside a body by using partial lateral and initial data Masaru Ikehata 035013 An efficient Bayesian inference approach to inverse problems based on an adaptive sparse grid collocation method Xiang Ma and Nicholas Zabaras 035014 Recovering the conductivity from a single measurement of interior data Adrian Nachman, Alexandru Tamasan and Alexandre Timonov ------ Subject: Nonlinearity's high-profile articles of 2008 - free to read From: Lara Finan Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:09:48 +0000 Nonlinearity's high-profile articles of 2008 I am delighted to announce the publication of a special collection of articles that highlight the breadth of high-quality research published in Nonlinearity during 2008. Articles in this collection are freely available from now until 31 December 2009 at http://herald.iop.org/NON/m32/avh/link/2351 These 'high-profile articles' consist of the top-downloaded papers published in 2008, many of which have already been highly cited. Whether you are reading these articles for the first time or from renewed interest, we hope you will find them enjoyable and stimulating. Best wishes, Kate Watt Publisher, Nonlinearity http://www.iop.org/journals/non