Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 10, Number 15 August 15, 2010 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Postdoc on predictability of extreme events in complex systems Postdoc on predictability of extreme weather events Contents, Journal of Modern Dynamics 4:2 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 239:17 Contents, Nonlinearity 23:9 Contents, Inverse Problems 26:9 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: Postdoc on predictability of extreme events in complex systems From: "Vitolo, Renato" Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:18:13 +0100 A 21-month postdoctoral position is available from 1 Dec 2010 at the Exeter Climate Systems research centre, University of Exeter (http://www1.secam.ex.ac.uk/xcs), as part of the PREDEX European project on the predictability of extreme events in complex systems. I am looking for enthousiastic candidates with a PhD/research background in applied mathematics, statistics, meteorology, physics. Please visit the following link for more details: http://admin.exeter.ac.uk/personnel/jobs.php?action=job&areaid=4&jid=4779 Deadline for applications: 3 September 2010. Interested candidates are welcome to contact me to discuss the position and the project. Dr Renato Vitolo, Willis Research Fellow CEMPS, University of Exeter +44 (0)1392 72 3642 www.people.ex.ac.uk/rv211 ------ Subject: Postdoc on predictability of extreme weather events From: "A.E.Sterk" Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:03:13 +0200 The University of Groningen is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the project "PREDictability of EXtreme weather events" (PREDEX). The position is for 2 years and the Fellow will be supervised by Prof Henk Broer (Groningen), Dr Mark Holland (Exeter) and Dr Renato Vitolo (Exeter). The research will focus on extremes in low-dimensional dynamical systems. For further information on the PREDEX project, see http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/rv211/predex.html For the advertisement, see http://www.math.rug.nl/~broer/pdf/PREDEXadvo.pdf The deadline for applications is 15 November 2010. ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Modern Dynamics 4:2 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:35:40 -0500 Journal of Modern Dynamics (JMD) Volume: 4, Number: 2 April 2010 http://aimsciences.org/journals/displayPapers1.jsp?pubID=383 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of JMD 4-2. The Editors The 2009 Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems; pages{i - ii} doi:10.3934/jmd.2010.4.2i Carlangelo Liverani On the work and vision of Dmitry Dolgopyat; pages{211--225} doi:10.3934/jmd.2010.4.211 Yakov Pesin On the work of Dolgopyat on partial and nonuniform hyperbolicity; pages{227--241} doi:10.3934/jmd.2010.4.227 Nikolai Chernov The work of Dmitry Dolgopyat on physical models with moving particles; pages{243--255} doi:10.3934/jmd.2010.4.243 Nir Avni and Benjamin Weiss Generating product systems; pages{257--270} doi:10.3934/jmd.2010.4.257 Zhenqi Jenny Wang Local rigidity of partially hyperbolic actions; pages{271--327} doi:10.3934/jmd.2010.4.271 Peter Albers and Urs Frauenfelder Spectral invariants in Rabinowitz--Floer homology and global Hamiltonian perturbations; pages{329--357} doi:10.3934/jmd.2010.4.329 Thierry Coulbois Fractal trees for irreducible automorphisms of free groups; pages{359--391} doi:10.3934/jmd.2010.4.359 Ursula Hamenstadt Dynamics of the Teichm\"uller flow on compact invariant sets; pages{393--418} doi:10.3934/jmd.2010.4.393 ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 239:17 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:36:01 -0400 New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect! * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 239, Issue 17, Pages 1627-1758 (1 September 2010) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5537-2010-997609982-2197790 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Page IFC 2) Recognition of resonance type in periodically forced oscillators Pages 1627-1636 H.W. Broer, S.J. Holtman, G. Vegter 3) Front dynamics in heterogeneous diffusive media Pages 1637-1649 Hideo Ikeda, Shin-Ichiro Ei 4) Stationary and oscillatory fronts in a two-component genetic regulatory network model Pages 1650-1661 Heather Hardway, Yue-Xian Li 5) Reply to "Comment on 'Ensemble Kalman filter with the unscented transform'" Pages 1662-1664 X. Luo, I.M. Moroz, I. Hoteit 6) Perturbed Euler top and bifurcation of limit cycles on invariant Casimir surfaces Pages 1665-1669 Isaac A. Garcia, Benito Hernandez-Bermejo 7) Wave train selection behind invasion fronts in reaction-diffusion predator-prey models Pages 1670-1680 Sandra M. Merchant, Wayne Nagata 8) Control of pattern formation by time-delay feedback with global and local contributions Pages 1681-1691 Michael Stich, Carsten Beta 9) On the complete synchronization of the Kuramoto phase model Pages 1692-1700 Seung-Yeal Ha, Taeyoung Ha, Jong-Ho Kim 10) Diagnosis and impacts of non-Gaussianity of innovations in data assimilation Pages 1701-1717 Carlos A. Pires, Olivier Talagrand, Marc Bocquet 1) Phase description of nonlinear dissipative waves under space-time-dependent external forcing Pages 1718-1722 Y. Tonosaki, T. Ohta, V. Zykov 12) One-dimensional mapping, modulated phases and Lyapunov exponent for the antiferromagnetic QQ-state Potts and multi-site exchange interaction Ising models Pages 1723-1729 N.S. Ananikian, L.N. Ananikyan, R. Artuso, V.V. Hovhannisyan 13) Stability of travelling wave solutions for coupled surface and grain boundary motion Pages 1730-1740 14) A test model for fluctuation-dissipation theorems with time-periodic statistics Pages 1741-1757 Boris Gershgorin, Andrew J. Majda ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 23:9 From: Emma Avery Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:28:25 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 23, Issue 9, September 2010 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0951-7715/23/9 Pages: 2029--2350 PAPERS 2029 A numerically accessible criterion for the breakdown of quasi-periodic solutions and its rigorous justification Renato Calleja and Rafael de la Llave 2059 Localized standing waves in inhomogeneous Schr\"odinger equations R Marangell, C K R T Jones and H Susanto 2081 Propagation of Sobolev regularity for a class of random kinetic models on the real line Daniel Matthes and Giuseppe Toscani 2101 Some prevalent results about strongly monoH\"older functions Marianne Clausel and Samuel Nicolay 2117 Hamiltonian flows on null curves Emilio Musso and Lorenzo Nicolodi 2131 Effective dynamics using conditional expectations Fr\'ed\'eric Legoll and Tony Leli\`evre 2165 Quiet sigma delta quantization, and global convergence for a class of asymmetric piecewise-affine maps Rachel Ward 2183 Classification of solutions of the forced periodic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation Eli Shlizerman and Vered Rom-Kedar 2219 Semi-global analysis of periodic and quasi-periodic normal-internal k : 1 and k : 2 resonances K Saleh and F O O Wagener 2253 Coexistence of invariant sets with and without SRB measures in H\'enon family Shin Kiriki, Ming-Chia Li and Teruhiko Soma 2271 Finite-dimensional attractor for a composite system of wave/plate equations with localized damping Francesca Bucci and Daniel Toundykov 2307 KPP reaction--diffusion system with a nonlinear loss inside a cylinder Thomas Giletti 2333 Graph-directed iterated function systems satisfying the generalized finite type condition Sze-Man Ngai, Fei Wang and Xinhan Dong ------ Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems 26:9 From: Emma Avery Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:10:06 +0100 INVERSE PROBLEMS Volume 26, Issue 9, September 2010 Article numbers: 095001--099802 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://iopscience.iop.org/0266-5611/26/9 PAPERS 095001 Nonnegative image reconstruction from sparse Fourier data: a new deconvolution algorithm S Bonettini and M Prato 095002 Inverse scattering method based on contour deformations using a fast marching method M Eskandari and R Safian 095003 An inverse radiative transfer model of the vegetation canopy based on automatic differentiation M Vo{\ss}beck, M Clerici, T Kaminski, T Lavergne, B Pinty and R Giering 095004 On the reconstruction of inclusions in a heat conductive body from dynamical boundary data over a finite time interval Masaru Ikehata and Mishio Kawashita 095005 Integral equation models for thermoacoustic imaging of acoustic dissipative tissue Richard Kowar 095006 Logarithmic stability in determination of a 3D viscoelastic coefficient and a numerical example Maya de Buhan and Axel Osses 095007 Solutions of matrix NLS systems and their discretizations: a unified treatment Aristophanes Dimakis and Folkert M\"uller-Hoissen 095008 Reconstruction from a sampling of circle integrals in SO(3) Victor P Palamodov 095009 Simultaneous identification of electric permittivity and magnetic permeability Hui Feng, Daijun Jiang and Jun Zou 095010 Detection of a moving rigid solid in a perfect fluid Carlos Conca, Muslim Malik and Alexandre Munnier 095011 On an inverse problem for anisotropic conductivity in the plane Gennadi Henkin and Matteo Santacesaria 095012 Integral equations for shape and impedance reconstruction in corrosion detection Fioralba Cakoni, Rainer Kress and Christian Schuft 095013 Cross rules of some extrapolation algorithms Claude Brezinski, Yi He, Xing-Biao Hu and Jian-Qing Sun 095014 Uniqueness and stability for the inverse medium problem with internal data Faouzi Triki 095015 Differential-difference regularization for a 2D inverse heat conduction problem Zhi Qian and Qiang Zhang 095016 A duality-based method of quasi-reversibility to solve the Cauchy problem in the presence of noisy data L Bourgeois and J Dard\'e ERRATUM 099801 The boundary control approach to inverse spectral theory Sergei Avdonin and Victor Mikhaylov CORRIGENDUM 099802 Inversion of a new circular-arc Radon transform for Compton scattering tomography M K Nguyen and T T Truong