Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 10, Number 17 September 15, 2010 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Conference, Nonlinearity and Coherent Structures Workshop, Problems with Layer Phenomena Postdoc position, complex systems and systems biology PostDoc position, Navier-Stokes numerical simulations Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 3:4 Contents, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 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: Conference, Nonlinearity and Coherent Structures From: Pam Bye Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 13:29:28 +0000 THE INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS IMA CONFERENCE ON NONLINEARITY AND COHERENT STRUCTURES 6-8 July 2011 University of Reading, UK The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 30th November 2010 Further details are available on the Conference website: http://www.ima.org.uk/Conferences/ncs/index.html ------ Subject: Workshop, Problems with Layer Phenomena From: Natalia Kopteva Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:30:49 -0400 th Annual Workshop on Numerical Methods for Problems with Layer Phenomena 3-4 Feb 2011, Dublin City University, Ireland http://webpages.dcu.ie/~oriordae/dcu_workshop.htm REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 15th December 2010 A two day workshop is being organised by the School of Mathematical Sciences in Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. The aim of the workshop is to bring together people, in the mathematics and general scientific community, who have particular interests in the development and applications of numerical methods for problems that exhibit layer phenomena, such as boundary/interior layers in fluid flow and other applications. ------ Subject: Postdoc position, complex systems and systems biology From: Xujing Wang Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:40:48 -0400 A postdoctoral fellow position is available immediately for candidates interested in complex systems/systems biology. The initial appointment will be for one year, with possible extension for one year or more conditioned on performance and funding. The research will focus on the theoretical/mathematical modeling and algorithm development in the study of the emergent spatial-temporal orders in complex systems. The successful candidate can participate in one of the two ongoing projects: (1) the multi-scale complex system that regulates glucose homeostasis, a basic physiological process that provides energy to all cells in human body. The study includes the synchronization of the pancreatic islet beta cell oscillation, the insulin/glucose feedback loops in blood circulation, and the applications to clinical studies of glucose tolerance. (2) The spatial-temporal architecture of transcriptome. This mainly includes the development of new genetic network modeling algorithms utilizing concepts and theories from physics/mathematics, and applications to integrative genomics. Candidates with PhD training in physics, applied mathematics, or related is preferred. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the research, candidates from other basic science areas with strong quantitative training will also be considered. Experience with differential equations, network theory, scientific programming and simulation, are desirable though not required. 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 send the application and inquires to: xujingw@uab.edu. (205) 934-8186. Research will be conducted in the research group of Dr. Xujing Wang in the Department of Physics (http://www.phys.uab.edu/xwang) 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 theoretical physicist, mathematical biologist, applied mathematician, system biologist, geneticist, as well as laboratory and clinical scientists. 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/. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and in general follows NIH postdoctoral stipends guideline. Candidates with PhD training in physics, applied mathematics, or related is preferred. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the research, candidates from other basic science areas with strong quantitative training will also be considered. Experience with differential equations, network theory, scientific programming and simulation, are desirable though not required. 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 send the application and inquires to: xujingw@uab.edu. (205) 934-8186. Research will be conducted in the research group of Dr. Xujing Wang in the Department of Physics (http://www.phys.uab.edu/xwang) 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 theoretical physicist, mathematical biologist, applied mathematician, system biologist, geneticist, as well as laboratory and clinical scientists. 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/. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and in general follows NIH postdoctoral stipends guideline. ------ Subject: PostDoc position, Navier-Stokes numerical simulations From: Patrick Fischer Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:37:07 -0400 PostDoc position in Navier-Stokes numerical simulations at University Bordeaux 1, France. Institut de Mathematiques de Bordeaux. A Postdoctoral position is available to work on the ANR research project Cyclobulle related to Navier Stokes (NS) numerical simulations. The goal of this project is to provide a better understanding of coherent structures in quasi two-dimensional flows with the aim of understanding hurricane trajectories and in addition, shed light on turbulent convection with and without rotation. A soap bubble, when heated at its equator and cooled at its summit, is subject to strong thermal convection with thermal plumes detaching in the region near the equator. This agitation produces long-lived isolated vortices that resemble cyclones in the atmosphere. The first steps of this project will be to adapt the actual codes developed for planar soap films in order to reproduce the half soap bubble experiments. In this part, we'll have to define numerical schemes for solving the NS equations on a half sphere. The heating process has to be included by coupling the regular NS equations and the temperature convection equation. The main goal will be to reproduce the creation of a single vortex as observed in the experiments. In this part, the advantages of numerical experiments will be exploited as much as possible: long-term calculations, change of the boundary conditions, analysis of the different fields, filtering of the results, etc. In the second step, we will modify the model to get a more realistic description of the cyclonic activity on Earth. A simple improvement will be to take into consideration the fact that cyclones originate in the oceans and then usually die in the lands. Indeed, it is well known that the intensity and the motion of cyclones are modified when they leave the oceans and enter the lands. The penalization method can be used in the present study in order to consider the influence of the lands on the motion of cyclones. The penalization can thus be used to take into account this particular aspect of the problem that cannot be assessed with the bubble experiments. Then the Coriolis force that is an important factor in the behavior of hurricanes and cyclones can be introduced by modifying the boundary conditions. And finally, a more realistic model, like the quasi-geostrophic representation, could be envisaged in place of the two-dimensional turbulence approximation. Interested applicants should send - a curriculum vitae including a complete list of publications - names of three references including email addresses to: Prof. Charles-Henri Bruneau : Charles-Henri.Bruneau@math.u-bordeaux1.fr Dr. Patrick Fischer: Patrick.Fischer@math.u-bordeaux1.fr This search will proceed until a suitable candidate is selected. Applications will be reviewed from October 1, 2010. ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 3:4 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:51:03 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series S (DCDS-S) Volume: 3, Number: 4 December 2010 http://aimsciences.org/journals/displayPapers1.jsp?pubID=386 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of DCDS-S 3-4. Guest editors Preface doi:10.3934/dcdss.2010.3.4i; pages{i--ii} Henk Broer, Konstantinos Efstathiou and Olga Lukina A geometric fractional monodromy theorem doi:10.3934/dcdss.2010.3.517; pages{517--532} Alessandra Celletti Some KAM applications to celestial mechanics doi:10.3934/dcdss.2010.3.533 ; pages{533--544} Luigi Chierchia and Gabriella Pinzari Properly--degenerate KAM theory (following V. I. Arnold) doi:10.3934/dcdss.2010.3.545; pages{545--578} Hongzi Cong, Jianjun Liu and Xiaoping Yuan Quasi-periodic solutions for complex Ginzburg--Landau equation of nonlinearity $|u|^{2p}u$ doi:10.3934/dcdss.2010.3.579; pages{579--600} Antonio Giorgilli and Stefano Marmi Convergence radius in the Poincare--Siegel problem doi:10.3934/dcdss.2010.3.601; pages{601--621} Xuemei Li and Rafael de la Llave Convergence of differentiable functions on closed sets and remarks on the proofs of the ``Converse Approximation Lemmas'' doi:10.3934/dcdss.2010.3.623; pages{623--641} Todor Mitev and Georgi Popov Gevrey normal form and effective stability of Lagrangian tori doi:10.3934/dcdss.2010.3.643; pages{643--666} Vincent Naudot and Jiazhong Yang Finite smooth normal forms and integrability of local families of vector fields doi:10.3934/dcdss.2010.3.667; pages{667--682} Helmut Russmann KAM iteration with nearly infinitely small steps in dynamical systems of polynomial character doi:10.3934/dcdss.2010.3.683; pages{683--718} Florian Wagener A parametrised version of Moser's modifying terms theorem doi:10.3934/dcdss.2010.3.719; pages{719--768} ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 6:4 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:08:05 -0500 Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (JIMO) Volume: 6, Number: 4 November 2010 http://aimsciences.org/journals/displayPapers1.jsp?pubID=387 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of JIMO 6-4. Ruben A. Proano, Sheldon H. Jacobson and Janet A. Jokela A multi-attribute approach for setting pediatric vaccine stockpile levels doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.709; pages{709--727} Jian Yang and Youhua (Frank) Chen On information quality ranking and its managerial implications doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.729; pages{729--750} Liping Zhang and Soon-Yi Wu Robust solutions to Euclidean facility location problems with uncertain data doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.751; pages{751--760} Dingjun Yao, Hailiang Yang and Rongming Wang Optimal financing and dividend strategies in a dual model with proportional costs doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.761 ; pages{761--777} Cheng Lu, Zhenbo Wang, Wenxun Xing and Shu-Cherng Fang Extended canonical duality and conic programming for solving 0-1 quadratic programming problems doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.779; pages{779--793} Juliang Zhang and Jian Chen Externality of contracts on supply chains with two suppliers and a common retailer doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.795; pages{795--810} Chaabane Djamal and Pirlot Marc A method for optimizing over the integer efficient set doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.811; pages{811--823} Yanqun Liu An exterior point linear programming method based on inclusive normal cones doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.825; pages{825--846} Zhenbo Wang, Wenxun Xing and Shu-Cherng Fang Two-person knapsack game doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.847; pages{847--860} Tayel Essawy Dabbous Adaptive control of nonlinear systems using fuzzy systems doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.861; pages{861--880} Qinghong Zhang, Gang Chen and Ting Zhang Duality formulations in semidefinite programming doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.881; pages{881--893} Changjun Yu, Kok Lay Teo, Liansheng Zhang and Yanqin Bai A new exact penalty function method for continuous inequality constrained optimization problems doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.895; pages{895--910} Veena Goswami and P. Vijaya Laxmi Analysis of renewal input bulk arrival queue with single working vacation and partial batch rejection doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.911; pages{911--927} Pikkala Vijaya Laxmi and Obsie Mussa Yesuf Analysis of a finite buffer general input queue with Markovian service process and accessible and non-accessible batch service doi:10.3934/jimo.2010.6.929; pages{929--944}