Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 09, Number 14 August 1, 2009 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Spacecraft Dynamics and Control New book on PDEs Contents, Inverse Problems and Imaging 3:3 Contents, Kinetic and Related Models 2:3 Contents, Journal of Geometric Mechanics 1:2 Contents, Inverse Problems 25:8 Contents, Nonlinearity 22:8 Inverse Problems Newsletter 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: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Spacecraft Dynamics and Control From: "Prof. Krishna Kumar" Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:41:47 -0400 One Ryerson Post Doctoral Fellowship (RPDF) is immediately available from October 2009 in Spacecraft Dynamics and Control for three years (i.e. 36 months) renewable annually (http://www.ryerson.ca/ors/forms/ post_doctoral_round_.html). The annual salary is $41,000 plus benefits (approximate total value of award $50,000). The aim of this RPDF program is to attract outstanding post-doctoral fellows who will enhance Ryerson's Scholarly, Research and Creative (SRC) productivity. Applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria: (a) Have completed or received a PhD degree in dynamics and nonlinear control discipline no more than two years before the application deadline; or (b) Be expected to complete their PhD degree in dynamics and nonlinear control no later than six months after taking up the PDF. (c) There must be evidence of significant and exciting promise in Scholarly, Research and Creative (SRC) in relation to the candidate's career stage and background. (d) If an applicant has at least six months of full-time relevant work experience in industry or government after receiving the doctorate, the eligibility period is extended to three years. (e) If an applicant has withdrawn from the workforce and active research for maternity or paternity leave or to raise a child for at least one year after receiving a doctorate, the eligibility period is extended to six years. The RPDF will work in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Ryerson University (www.ryerson.ca/aerospace). The research will be supervised by Dr. Krishna Kumar, Canada Research Chair. Dr. Kumar\222s areas of research/projects include Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, Fault Tolerant Control, Orbit and Attitude Dynamics and Control, Flexible Spacecraft, Formation Flying, and Underactuated Systems (www.kdkumar.com). These projects are challenging and involve theoretical and experimental work. The candidate should have a Ph.D degree in dynamics and nonlinear control. The candidate must have a strong background in mathematics, dynamics and control. Experience with MATLAB is essential. Knowledge of orbital or attitude dynamics and designing spacecraft is desirable. Practical experience in designing controllers is desirable. The prospective candidate should send (preferably by email) their resumes, along with names and contact information of three references, as well as copies of research papers, before August 20, 2009, to: Dr. Krishna Kumar, Associate Professor Canada Research Chair in Space Systems Department of Aerospace Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Tel.: 416-979-5000, Ext. 4908; Fax: 416-979-5056 Email: kdkumar@ryerson.ca http://www.kdkumar.com ------ Subject: New book on PDEs From: Etienne Emmrich Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:08 +0200 (CEST) Analytical and Numerical Aspects of Partial Differential Equations Notes of a Lecture Series. Ed. by Emmrich, Etienne / Wittbold, Petra de Gruyter 2009. 24 x 17 cm. 290 pages. Hardcover. ISBN 978-3-11-020447-6 CONTENT GREGORY A. CHECHKIN AND ANDREY YU. GORITSKY S. N. Kruzhkov's lectures on first-order quasilinear PDEs MARTIN CAMPOS PINTO Adaptive semi-Lagrangian schemes for Vlasov equations JULIEN JIMENEZ Coupling of a scalar conservation law with a parabolic problem STEFAN LE COZ Standing waves in nonlinear Schrodinger equations FREDERIC LEGOLL Multiscale methods coupling atomistic and continuum mechanics: some examples of mathematical analysis SYLVIE MONNIAUX Maximal regularity and applications to PDEs DESCRIPTION The topics of the contributions to this book range from an investigation of the qualitative behaviour of solutions of particular partial differential equations to the study of the complexity of numerical methods for the reliable and efficient solution of partial differential equations. A main focus is on nonlinear problems and theoretical studies reflecting recent developments of topical interest. This book grew out of a series of lectures at the Technische Universitat Berlin held by young mathematicians from France who followed an invitation for a short-term stay during the academic years 2007-2009. The book addresses students of mathematics in their last year, PhD students as well as younger researchers working in the field of partial differential equations and their numerical treatment. Most of the contributions only require some basic knowledge in functional analysis, partial differential equations, and numerical analysis. ------ Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems and Imaging 3:3 From: Liwei Ning Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:20:54 -0500 Inverse Problems and Imaging (IPI) Volume: 3, Number: 3 August 2009 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of IPI 3-3. Mark Agranovsky, David Finch and Peter Kuchment pages{373--382} Range conditions for a spherical mean transform doi:10.3934/ipi.2009.3.373 Markus Grasmair pages{383--387} Well-posedness and convergence rates for sparse regularization with sublinear $l^q$ penalty term doi:10.3934/ipi.2009.3.383 Roland Griesmaier pages{389--403} Reciprocity gap music imaging for an inverse scattering problem in two-layered media doi:10.3934/ipi.2009.3.389 B. L. G. Jonsson pages{405--452} Wave splitting of Maxwell's equations with anisotropic heterogeneous constitutive relations doi:10.3934/ipi.2009.3.405 Venkateswaran P. Krishnan and Plamen Stefanov pages{453--464} A support theorem for the geodesic ray transform of symmetric tensor fields doi:10.3934/ipi.2009.3.453 Markku Lehtinen, Baylie Damtie, Petteri Piiroinen and Mikko Orisp\"a\"a pages{465--486} Perfect and almost perfect pulse compression codes for range spread radar targets doi:10.3934/ipi.2009.3.465 Yingying Li and Stanley Osher pages{487--503} Coordinate descent optimization for $\ell^1$ minimization with application to compressed sensing; a greedy algorithm doi:10.3934/ipi.2009.3.487 Alfredo Lorenzi and Eugenio Sinestrari pages{505--536} Regularity and identification for an integrodifferential one-dimensional hyperbolic equation doi:10.3934/ipi.2009.3.505 Leonardo Marazzi pages{537--550} Inverse scattering on conformally compact manifolds doi:10.3934/ipi.2009.3.537 ------ Subject: Contents, Kinetic and Related Models 2:3 From: Liwei Ning Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:36:31 -0500 Kinetic and Related Models (KRM) Volume: 2, Number: 3 September 2009 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of KRM 2-3. Naoufel Ben Abdallah and Hedia Chaker pages{403--424} Mixed high field and diffusion asymptotics for the fermionic Boltzmann equation doi:10.3934/krm.2009.2.403 S. Aiello, Luigi Barletti and Aldo Belleni-Morante pages{425--432} Identification of photon sources, stochastically embedded in an interstellar cloud doi:10.3934/krm.2009.2.425 Laurent Boudin and Francesco Salvarani pages{433--449} The quasi-invariant limit for a kinetic model of sociological collective behavior doi:10.3934/krm.2009.2.433 Nicolas Fournier pages{451--464} Particle approximation of some Landau equations doi:10.3934/krm.2009.2.451 Robert Glassey, Stephen Pankavich and Jack Schaeffer pages{465--488} On long-time behavior of monocharged and neutral plasma in one and one-half dimensions doi:10.3934/krm.2009.2.465 Michael Herty, Axel Klar, Sebastien Motsch and Ferdinand Olawsky pages{489--502} A smooth model for fiber lay-down processes and its diffusion approximations doi:10.3934/krm.2009.2.489 Martin Seehafer pages{503--520} A local existence result for a plasma physics model containing a fully coupled magnetic field doi:10.3934/krm.2009.2.503 Hui Yin and Huijiang Zhao pages{521--550} Nonlinear stability of boundary layer solutions for generalized Benjamin-Bona-Mahony-Burgers equation in the half space doi:10.3934/krm.2009.2.521 ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Geometric Mechanics 1:2 From: Liwei Ning Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:50:05 -0500 Journal of Geometric Mechanics (JGM) Volume: 1, Number: 2 June 2009 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of JGM 1-2. Ioan Bucataru and Matias F. Dahl pages{159--180} Semi-basic $1$-forms and Helmholtz conditions for the inverse problem of the calculus of variations doi:10.3934/jgm.2009.1.159 Darryl D. Holm and Cesare Tronci pages{181--208} Geodesic Vlasov equations and their integrable moment closures doi:10.3934/jgm.2009.1.181 W. Sarlet, G. E. Prince and M. Crampin pages{209--221} Generalized submersiveness of second-order ordinary differential equations doi:10.3934/jgm.2009.1.209 Joris Vankerschaver, Eva Kanso and Jerrold Marsden pages{223--266} The geometry and dynamics of interacting rigid bodies and point vortices doi:10.3934/jgm.2009.1.223 Gianne Derks pages{267--270} Book review: Geometric mechanics doi:10.3934/jgm.2009.1.267 ------ Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems 25:8 From: Emma Avery Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:09:54 +0100 INVERSE PROBLEMS Volume 25, Issue 8, August 2009 Article numbers: 085001--085011 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/0266-5611/25/8 PAPERS 085001 Fast inference for statistical inverse problems Matthew A Taddy, Herbert K H Lee and Bruno Sans\'o 085002 Canonical B\"acklund transformation for the DST model under open boundary conditions Barun Khanra and A Ghose Choudhury 085003 Twofold subspace-based optimization method for solving inverse scattering problems Yu Zhong and Xudong Chen 085004 On a quadratic inverse eigenvalue problem Yunfeng Cai and Shufang Xu 085005 An inverse nodal problem for two-parameter Sturm--Liouville systems Paul A Binding and Bruce A Watson 085006 Identification of the combination of monopolar and dipolar sources for elliptic equations Yun-Sung Chung and Soon-Yeong Chung 085007 Inverse problems for the Boussinesq system Jishan Fan, Yu Jiang and Gen Nakamura 085008 Comparison of idealized and electrode Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps in electric impedance tomography with an application to boundary determination of conductivity Nuutti Hyv\"onen 085009 State estimation in process tomography---reconstruction of velocity fields using EIT A Sepp\"anen, A Voutilainen and J P Kaipio 085010 Reconstruction of thin electromagnetic inclusions by a level-set method Won-Kwang Park and Dominique Lesselier 085011 Regularization with non-convex separable constraints Kristian Bredies and Dirk A Lorenz CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Inverse Problems: Modelling and Simulation ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 22:8 From: Emma Avery Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:27:07 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 22, Issue 8, August 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=8 Pages: 1761--2078 PAPERS 1761 Resonance zones and lobe volumes for exact volume-preserving maps H E Lomel\' \i and J D Meiss 1791 Incompressible flow in porous media with fractional diffusion \'Angel Castro, Diego C\'ordoba, Francisco Gancedo and Rafael Orive 1817 Asymptotic densities for Packard Box rules Janko Gravner and David Griffeath 1847 An extension of integrable peakon equations with cubic nonlinearity Xianguo Geng and Bo Xue 1857 Phase transition for the universal bounds on the integral means spectrum Ilia Binder 1869 Standing generalized modulating pulse solutions for a nonlinear wave equation in periodic media Vincent Lescarret, Carsten Blank, Martina Chirilus-Bruckner, Christopher Chong and Guido Schneider 1899 Diffeomorphisms having rotation sets with non-empty interior Heber Enrich, Nancy Guelman, Audrey Larcanch\'e and Isabelle Liousse 1909 A two-dimensional flame tracking algorithm with application to Type Ia supernova Yongmin Zhang 1927 A new solution representation for the BBM equation in a quarter plane and the eventual periodicity John Meng-Kai Hong, Jiahong Wu and Juan-Ming Yuan 1945 The semiclassical continuity equation for open chaotic systems Jack Kuipers, Daniel Waltner, Martha Guti\'errez and Klaus Richter 1965 A combinatorial model for reversible rational maps over finite fields John A G Roberts and Franco Vivaldi 1983 Mollified birth in natural-age-grid Galerkin methods for age-structured biological systems Bruce P Ayati and Todd F Dupont 1997 Geography of resonances and Arnold diffusion in a priori unstable Hamiltonian systems Amadeu Delshams and Gemma Huguet ------ Subject: Inverse Problems Newsletter From: Kate Watt Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:17:15 +0100 Inverse Problems has enjoyed many exciting developments recently, including the publication of special sections, topical reviews and the 2008 Editorial Board Highlights, as well as our successful move to monthly publication and achieving another impressive increase in impact factor. We also have some interesting plans to look forward to, including an issue dedicated to specially commissioned topical reviews, which will be published in December. To find out more about all of the journal's developments, read our online newsletter here: http://herald.iop.org/IPnewsletter09/m196/hxp/188488/link/2715 If you would like any more information about the journal, or if you have any feedback, please get in touch by e-mailing us at ip@iop.org Best wishes, Kate Watt Publisher Inverse Problems Web: http://www.iop.org/journals/ip E-mail: ip@iop.org