Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 09, Number 18 October 1, 2009 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: School on Constructive approximation, Optimization and Modeling Conference, Mathematical Neuroscience 2010 Workshop on Random Dynamical Systems University Lecturership in the Analysis of Nonlinear PDEs Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 238:21 Contents, Inverse Problems 25:10 Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 6:4 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: School on Constructive approximation, Optimization and Modeling From: jgv@us.es Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:15:06 +0200 Dear collegues, This is an announcement of the post-graduate intensive school Doc-Course-IMUS on "Constructive approximation, Optimization and Mathematical Modeling", to be held in Sevilla, Spain, from March 1 to May 28, 2010. This Doc-Course has been proposed as an activity of IMUS (the Institute of Mathematics of the Uiversity of Sevilla) and is sponsored by the INGENIO-CONSOLIDER program through i-Math. Please, find all related information in http://institucional.us.es/doc-course-imus/ There will be 20 grants for covering accommodation and board. Important dates: - October 30, 2009: deadline for registration. - November 6, 2009: publication of the provisional list of accepted students. - December 8, 2009: deadline for the payment of registration fee. - December 15, 2009: publication of the definitive list of accepted students. - March 1, 2010: Begining of the Doc-Course. - May 28, 2010: End of the Doc-Course. The Secretary of the IMUS will be in charge of all administrative procedures (phone: +34954556248, fax: +34954556247, E-mail: admin-imus@us.es). For additional information, you can also contact us, preferably by E-mail. The organizers, A. Duran-Guarde\~no (duran@us.es) E. Fernandez-Cara (cara@us.es) ------ Subject: Conference, Mathematical Neuroscience 2010 From: Stephen Coombes Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:36:25 +0100 Mathematical Neuroscience 2010 Apr 19-21 2010 Edinburgh First announcement This three-day conference will provide an overview of the current state of research in mathematical approaches to neuroscience, bringing together both physical and life scientists. Drawing together the field in this way will allow for a critical discussion of the relevant experimental facts and of various mathematical methods and techniques that have been successfully applied to date. Importantly, it will draw attention to, and help develop, those pieces of mathematical theory which are likely to be relevant to future studies of the brain. The meeting will consist of invited speakers and registered participants, though will be limited to 100 people. The schedule will allow for a number of poster presentations. Invited speakers: Paul Bressloff (Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics, Oxford) Romain Brette (Departement d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Institute, UCL, London) Bard Ermentrout (Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh) Kevin Gurney (Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield) Yixin Guo (Department of Mathematic, Drexel University) Arjen van Ooyen (Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, VU University Amsterdam) Alex Roxin (Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University) Steven Schiff (Center for Neural Engineering, Penn State University) Eric Shea-Brown (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington) Louis Tao (Center for Bioinformatics, Peking University) Paul Tiesinga (Radboud University Nijmegen) Xiao-Jing Wang (Department of Neurobiology, Yale University) John White (Department of Bioengineering, Utah) Si Wu (Neural Information Processing, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences) The registration fee for the conference is 80.00 GBP. A one-day training workshop for PhD students and post-docs entitled "An introduction to Mathematical Neuroscience" will also take place prior to the meeting (on 18 April). Some financial assistance is available to assist graduate students who attend BOTH the training workshop and the conference. Further details of this meeting may be found at http://www.icms.org.uk/workshops/neuro2010 Note that registration will not open until Dec 1st 2009. Scientific Organisers Professor Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham Dr Yulia Timofeeva, University of Warwick Training Workshop Organiser Dr Mark van Rossum, University of Edinburgh Enquiries should be addressed to Irene Moore: irene.moore@icms.org.uk ------ Subject: Workshop on Random Dynamical Systems From: Barbara Gentz Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:46:29 -0400 Dear colleagues, you are cordially invited to participate in the Third Workshop on Random Dynamical Systems Department of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Wednesday, 18 November 2009 - Friday, 20 November 2009 Organizers: Wolf-Juergen Beyn and Barbara Gentz The workshop is part of the conference program of the DFG-sponsored CRC 701 "Spectral Structures and Topological Methods in Mathematics" at the University of Bielefeld. For further information, see http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~gentz/pages/WS09/RDS09/RDS09.html Participants are kindly requested to register by 13 November 2009. If you intend to participate, please send an e-mail to gentz@math.uni-bielefeld.de, giving your name and affiliation. Please include "Workshop RDS 09" in the subject line. Sincerely, Barbara Gentz Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld gentz@math.uni-bielefeld.de http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~gentz ------ Subject: University Lecturership in the Analysis of Nonlinear PDEs From: Endre Suli Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:05:48 -0400 University Lecturership in the Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations University of Oxford The Mathematical Institute proposes to appoint a University Lecturer in The Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, with effect from 1 January 2010 or at an agreed date thereafter. The successful candidate will be appointed to a tutorial fellowship at Lincoln College, under arrangements described in the further particulars. The salary will be on a scale up to 56,917 UK pounds per annum. The successful candidate will be expected to have a Ph.D. in Mathematics or a related discipline and a record in demonstrating a high standard of research ability in analysis and its applications to nonlinear partial differential equations. The appointee will also be expected to have the ability to teach effectively over a wide range of topics in the undergraduate mathematics syllabus at Oxford, not exclusively in the area of his or her research expertise, and including most topics in pure mathematics in the syllabus of the first and second year undergraduate mathematics course. Further particulars, containing details of the application procedure and of the duties, may be obtained from: Administrative Assistant (Vacancies), The Mathematical Institute, 24-29 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LB, UK email: vacancies@maths.ox.ac.uk or by visiting http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/notices/vacancies. Further particulars are available from http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/files/vacancies/Further%20particulars_6.pdf The closing date for applications is (noon UK time) on 30 October 2009. Please quote the reference number: BK/09/020. University of Oxford: Committed to equality and valuing diversity. ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 238:21 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:54:40 -0400 New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect! * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 238, Issue 21, Pages 2089-2152 (1 November 2009) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2009-997619978-1515103 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Variational Bayesian identification and prediction of stochastic nonlinear dynamic causal models Pages 2089-2118 J. Daunizeau, K.J. Friston, S.J. Kiebel 2) Semi-passivity and synchronization of diffusively coupled neuronal oscillators Pages 2119-2128 Erik Steur, Ivan Tyukin, Henk Nijmeijer 3) Topological entropy and the controlled effect of glucose in the electrical activity of pancreatic beta-cells Pages 2129-2137 Jorge Duarte, Cristina Januario, Nuno Martins 4) Performance robustness of a noise-assisted transmission line Pages 2138-2141 S.A. Iba\~nez, P.I. Fierens, R.P.J. Perazzo, D.F. Grosz 5) Sensitisation waves in a bidomain fire-diffuse-fire model of intracellular Ca^{2+} dynamics Pages 2142-2152 R. Thul, S. Coombes, G.D. Smith ------ Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems 25:10 From: Emma Avery Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:59:05 +0100 INVERSE PROBLEMS Volume 25, Issue 10, October 2009 Article numbers: 105001--105012 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/0266-5611/25/10 PAPERS 105001 Moment inversion problem for piecewise D-finite functions Dmitry Batenkov 105002 Direct and inverse problems related to MEMS Daniele Cassani, Barbara Kaltenbacher and Alfredo Lorenzi 105003 A unified approach to Darboux transformations Tuncay Aktosun and Cornelis van der Mee 105004 Iterative total variation schemes for nonlinear inverse problems Markus Bachmayr and Martin Burger 105005 Extracting the support function of a cavity in an isotropic elastic body from a single set of boundary data Masaru Ikehata and Hiromichi Itou 105006 The hard pulse approximation for the AKNS (2 x 2)-system Charles L Epstein and Jeremy Magland 105007 Stability and global-in-time results for an inverse problem related to a nuclear reactor model Fabrizio Colombo 105008 Inverse problems for Sturm--Liouville operators on bush-type graphs V Yurko 105009 A discrete spherical x-ray transform of orientation distribution functions using bounding cubes I G Kazantsev, S Schmidt and H F Poulsen 105010 The inverse scattering transform and squared eigenfunctions for a degenerate 3 x 3 operator D J Kaup and Jianke Yang 105011 On revealing graph cycles via boundary measurements M I Belishev and N Wada 105012 Improvements on a predictor--corrector strategy for parameter estimation with several data types Tao Feng and Trond Mannseth ------ Subject: Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 6:4 From: Liwei Ning Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:40:06 -0500 Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (MBE) Volume: 6, Number: 4 October 2009 http://aimsciences.org/journals/displayPapers1.jsp?pubID=326 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of MBE 6-4. P. Auger, N. H. Du and N. T. Hieu pages{683--700} Evolution of Lotka-Volterra predator-prey systems under telegraph noise doi:10.3934/mbe.2009.6.683 Silvia Cuadrado pages{701--718} Stability of equilibria of a predator-prey model of phenotype evolution doi:10.3934/mbe.2009.6.701 Christopher M. Kribs-Zaleta pages{719--742} Sharpness of saturation in harvesting and predation doi:10.3934/mbe.2009.6.719 Ming Mei and Yau Shu Wong pages{743--752} Novel stability results for traveling wavefronts in an age-structured reaction-diffusion equation doi:10.3934/mbe.2009.6.743 Patrick Nelson, Noah Smith, Stanca Ciupe, Weiping Zou, Gilbert S. Omenn and Massimo Pietropaolo pages{753--778} Modeling dynamic changes in type 1 diabetes progression: Quantifying $\beta$-cell variation after the appearance of islet-specific autoimmune responses doi:10.3934/mbe.2009.6.753 Arni S. R. Srinivasa Rao, Kurien Thomas, Kurapati Sudhakar and Philip K. Maini pages{779--813} HIV/AIDS epidemic in India and predicting the impact of the national response: Mathematical modeling and analysis doi:10.3934/mbe.2009.6.779 Lih-Ing W. Roeger, Zhilan Feng and Carlos Castillo-Chavez pages{815--837} Modeling TB and HIV co-infections doi:10.3934/mbe.2009.6.815 Eunha Shim, Beth Kochin and Alison Galvani pages{839--854} Insights from epidemiological game theory into gender-specific vaccination against rubella doi:10.3934/mbe.2009.6.839 Dirk Stiefs, Ezio Venturino and Ulrike Feudel pages{855--871} Evidence of chaos in eco-epidemic models doi:10.3934/mbe.2009.6.855 Diana M. Thomas, Ashley Ciesla, James A. Levine, John G. Stevens and Corby K. Martin pages{873--887} A mathematical model of weight change with adaptation doi:10.3934/mbe.2009.6.873