Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 10, Number 20 November 1, 2010 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Conference on Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences PhD/Postdoc in Applied/Comp Math at Georgia Tech Faculty Positions in Applied Mathematics at UC Merced Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 29:2 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 15:1 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 4:1 Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 7:4 Contents, Nonlinearity 23:11 Contents, Inverse Problems 26:11 Contents, Communications in Mathematical Science 9:1 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 on Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences From: "Mihail Todorov IPMI t.3353 *" Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:45:41 +0200 3rd International Conference for Promoting the Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences (AMiTaNS'11), June 20-25, 2011, resort of Albena, Northern Black Sea coast, Bulgaria Homepage: http://2011.eac4amitans.org Email: conference@eac4amitans.org Organizers: Euro-American Consortium for Promoting the Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences Deadline for abstracts: March 31, 2011 Description: The conference will be scheduled in plenary and keynote lectures followed by special and contributed sessions. The accents of the conference will be on Applied Analysis, Applied Physics, Biomathematics, Continuum Mechanics, Mathematical Physics, Numerical Methods, Scientific Computing, Solitons and Transport Processes which can be complemented by some specific topics in contributed special sessions. You are welcomed to announce and organize special sessions that should be within the general topic of the conference. If you are interested in attending AMiTaNS'11 please prepare a short abstract within 300 words clearly stating the goal and tools. ------ Subject: PhD/Postdoc in Applied/Comp Math at Georgia Tech From: Silas Alben Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:36:33 -0400 Applications are invited for a Ph.D. or postdoctoral position in the School of Mathematics at Georgia Tech, starting in January or August 2011. Possible research topics include mathematical and computational modeling of phenomena in fluid, solid, and biomechanics, including locomotion of organisms. For the Ph.D. position, the requirements are those of the Ph.D. Program in Computational Science and Engineering or Mathematics at Georgia Tech. To apply, please send a CV/resume to Professor Silas Alben, alben@math.gatech.edu ------ Subject: Faculty Positions in Applied Mathematics at UC Merced From: Arnold Kim Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:15:26 -0400 The University of California, Merced is a dynamic new university campus in Merced, California, which opened in September 2005 as the tenth campus of the University of California and the first American research university in the 21st century. In keeping with the mission of the University to provide teaching, research and public service of the highest quality, UC Merced offers research- centered and student-oriented educational opportunities at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels through three academic schools: Engineering, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences/Humanities/Arts. The School of Natural Sciences at UC Merced (http://naturalsciences.ucmerced.edu) invites applications in the area of Applied Mathematics (http://appliedmath.ucmerced.edu) starting July 1, 2011 at tenure-track Assistant Professor level and tenured Associate or Full Professor level. We are seeking exceptionally qualified candidates with expertise in modeling, applied analysis, scientific computing, or related areas. Special attention will be paid to applicants who participate in interdisciplinary research, will contribute to developing the applied mathematics curriculum and will contribute to one or more of the campus research initiatives in the natural sciences, engineering and/or social sciences. For the tenure-track Assistant Professor position, please see http://jobs.ucmerced.edu/n/academic/position.jsf?positionId=2898. For the tenured Associate/Full Professor position, please see http://jobs.ucmerced.edu/n/academic/position.jsf?positionId=2899 ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 29:2 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:49:28 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series A (DCDS-A) Volume: 29, Number: 2 February 2011 http://aimsciences.org/journals/displayPapers1.jsp?pubID=394 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of DCDS-A 29-2. Maria do Rosario de Pinho, M. Margarida Amorim Ferreira, Fernando A. C. C. Fontes, Fernando L. Pereira, Georgi Smirnov and Delfim F. M. Torres Preface; pages{i--ii} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.2i Aram Arutyunov, Dmitry Karamzin and Fernando Pereira On a generalization of the impulsive control concept: Controlling system jumps; pages{403--415} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.403 Nuno R. O. Bastos, Rui A. C. Ferreira and Delfim F. M. Torres Necessary optimality conditions for fractional difference problems of the calculus of variations; pages{417--437} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.417 Luis Balsa Bicho and Antonio Ornelas Existence of minimizers for nonautonomous highly discontinuous scalar multiple integrals with pointwise constrained gradients; pages{439--451} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.439 Piermarco Cannarsa and Peter R. Wolenski Semiconcavity of the value function for a class of differential inclusions; pages{453--466} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.453 Clara Carlota and Antonio Ornelas The DuBois-Reymond differential inclusion for autonomous optimal control problems with pointwise-constrained derivatives; pages{467--484} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.467 Francis Clarke A general theorem on necessary conditions in optimal control; pages{485--503} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.485 Maria do Rosario de Pinho and Ilya Shvartsman Lipschitz continuity of optimal control and Lagrange multipliers in a problem with mixed and pure state constraints; pages{505--522} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.505 Andrei V. Dmitruk and Alexander M. Kaganovich Quadratic order conditions for an extended weak minimum in optimal control problems with intermediate and mixed constraints; pages{523--545} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.523 Christos Gavriel and Richard Vinter Regularity of minimizers for second order variational problems in one independent variable; pages{547--557} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.547 Sofia O. Lopes, Fernando A. C. C. Fontes and M.d.R. de Pinho On constraint qualifications for nondegenerate necessary conditions of optimality applied to optimal control problems; pages{559--575} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.559 Agnieszka B. Malinowska and Delfim F. M. Torres Euler-Lagrange equations for composition functionals in calculus of variations on time scales; pages{577--593} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.577 Monica Motta and Caterina Sartori Generalized solutions to nonlinear stochastic differential equations with vector--valued impulsive controls; pages{595--613} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.595 Chadi Nour, Ron J. Stern and Jean Takche Generalized exterior sphere conditions and -convexity; pages{615--622} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.615 Zsolt Pales and Vera Zeidan -Jacobian and -co-Jacobian for Lipschitzian maps; pages{623--646} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.623 Radoslaw Pytlak Numerical procedure for optimal control of higher index DAEs; pages{647--670} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.647 Malgorzata Wyrwas, Dorota Mozyrska and Ewa Girejko Subdifferentials of convex functions on time scales; pages{671--691} doi:10.3934/dcds.2011.29.671 ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 15:1 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:54:50 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B (DCDS-B) Volume: 15, Number: 1 January 2011 http://aimsciences.org/journals/displayPapers1.jsp?pubID=393 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of DCDS-B 15-1. Zhenguo Bai and Yicang Zhou Threshold dynamics of a bacillary dysentery model with seasonal fluctuation; pages{1--14} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.1 Michiel Bertsch, Roberta Dal Passo, Lorenzo Giacomelli and Giuseppe Tomassetti A nonlocal and fully nonlinear degenerate parabolic system from strain-gradient plasticity; pages{15--43} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.15 Zhenlu Cui and Qi Wang Permeation flows in cholesteric liquid crystal polymers under oscillatory shear; pages{45--60} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.45 Yoichi Enatsu, Yukihiko Nakata and Yoshiaki Muroya Global stability of SIR epidemic models with a wide class of nonlinear incidence rates and distributed delays; pages{61--74} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.61 Yuliya Gorb, Dukjin Nam and Alexei Novikov Numerical simulations of diffusion in cellular flows at high Peclet numbers; pages{75--92} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.75 Zhixing Hu, Ping Bi, Wanbiao Ma and Shigui Ruan Bifurcations of an SIRS epidemic model with nonlinear incidence rate; pages{93--112} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.93 Sophia R.-J. Jang Allee effects in an iteroparous host population and in host-parasitoid interactions; pages{113--135} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.113 Hung-Wen Kuo The initial layer for Rayleigh problem; pages{137--170} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.137 Anthony W. Leung, Xiaojie Hou and Wei Feng Traveling wave solutions for Lotka-Volterra system re-visited; pages{171--196} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.171 Josep M. Olm and Xavier Ros-Oton Approximate tracking of periodic references in a class of bilinear systems via stable inversion; pages{197--215} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.197 Rui Peng and Fengqi Yi On spatiotemporal pattern formation in a diffusive bimolecular model; pages{217--230} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.217 Jianhe Shen, Shuhui Chen and Kechang Lin Study on the stability and bifurcations of limit cycles in higher-dimensional nonlinear autonomous systems; pages{231--254} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.231 Li-Li Wan and Chun-Lei Tang Existence and multiplicity of homoclinic orbits for second order Hamiltonian systems without (\textsl{AR}) condition; pages{255--271} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.255 Rui Xu Global convergence of a predator-prey model with stage structure and spatio-temporal delay; pages{273--291} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.273 Shihe Xu Analysis of a delayed free boundary problem for tumor growth; pages{293--308} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.293 Shuichi Kawashima and Peicheng Zhu Traveling waves for models of phase transitions of solids driven by configurational forces; pages{309--323} doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.309 ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 4:1 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:52:46 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series S (DCDS-S) Volume: 4, Number: 1 February 2011 http://aimsciences.org/journals/displayPapers1.jsp?pubID=391 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of DCDS-S 4-1. Guest editors Preface doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.1i; pages{i--iv} Henri Berestycki, Jean-Michel Roquejoffre and Luca Rossi The periodic patch model for population dynamics with fractional diffusion; pages{1--13} doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.1 Jerry L. Bona and Laihan Luo Large-time asymptotics of the generalized Benjamin-Ono-Burgers equation; pages{15--50} doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.15 Laurence Cherfils, Stefania Gatti and Alain Miranville A doubly nonlinear parabolic equation with a singular potential; pages{51--66} doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.51 Arnaud Ducrot, Vincent Guyonne and Michel Langlais Some remarks on the qualitative properties of solutions to a predator--prey model posed on non coincident spatial domains; pages{67--82} doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.67 Michael Frankel, Victor Roytburd and Gregory Sivashinsky Dissipativity for a semi-linearized system modeling cellular flames; pages{83--99} doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.83 Francois Hamel and Jean-Michel Roquejoffre Heteroclinic connections for multidimensional bistable reaction-diffusion equations; pages{101--123} doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.101 Marie Henry, Danielle Hilhorst and Masayasu Mimura A reaction-diffusion approximation to an area preserving mean curvature flow coupled with a bulk equation; pages{125--154} doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.125 Marcel Lesieur Two-point closure based large-eddy simulations in turbulence, Part 1: Isotropic turbulence; pages{155--168} doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.155 Luca Lorenzi Optimal H\"older regularity for nonautonomous Kolmogorov equations; pages{169--191} doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.169 Juan Carlos Nu\~no, Miguel Angel Herrero and Mario Primicerio A mathematical model of a criminal-prone society; pages{193--207} doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.193 Madalina Petcu and Roger Temam The one dimensional shallow water equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions on the velocity; pages{209--222} doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.209 Michel Pierre and Gr\'egory Vial Best design for a fastest cells selecting process; pages{223--237} doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.223 ------ Subject: Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 7:4 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:36:15 -0500 Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (MBE) Volume: 7, Number: 4 October 2010 http://aimsciences.org/journals/displayPapers1.jsp?pubID=392 We offer a couple of weeks free online access to the full paper of MBE 7-4. Azmy S. Ackleh and Keng Deng Stability of a delay equation arising from a juvenile-adult model; pages{729--737} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.729 Judy Day, Jonathan Rubin and Gilles Clermont Using nonlinear model predictive control to find optimal therapeutic strategies to modulate inflammation; pages{739--763} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.739 Jonathan E. Forde and Bailey Meeker A model of varicella-zoster reactivation; pages{765--777} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.765 Avner Friedman, Najat Ziyadi and Khalid Boushaba A model of drug resistance with infection by health care workers; pages{779--792} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.779 Virginia Gonzalez-Velez, Amparo Gil and Ivan Quesada Minimal state models for ionic channels involved in glucagon secretion; pages{793--807} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.793 Carlos M. Hernandez-Suarez, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Osval Montesinos Lopez and Karla Hernandez-Cuevas An application of queuing theory to SIS and SEIS epidemic models; pages{809--823} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.809 Xiong Li and Hao Wang A stoichiometrically derived algal growth model and its global analysis; pages{825--836} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.825 C. Connell McCluskey Global stability of an $SIR$ epidemic model with delay and general nonlinear incidence; pages{837--850} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.837 Hiroshi Nishiura Time variations in the generation time of an infectious disease: Implications for sampling to appropriately quantify transmission potential; pages{851--869} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.851 Gigi Thomas and Edward~M.~Lungu A two-sex model for the influence of heavy alcohol consumption on the spread of HIV/AIDS; pages{871--904} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.871 Cristian Tomasetti and Doron Levy An elementary approach to modeling drug resistance in cancer; pages{905--918} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.905 Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Pia Abel zur Wiesch and Roger D. Kouyos Rotating antibiotics does not minimize selection for resistance; pages{919--922} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.919 Robert E. Beardmore and Rafael Pena-Miller Antibiotic cycling versus mixing: The difficulty of using mathematical models to definitively quantify their relative merits; pages{923--933} doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.923 ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 23:11 From: Emma Avery Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:36:05 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 23, Issue 11, November 2010 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0951-7715/23/11 Pages: 2723--2796 PAPERS 2723 Dynamics of an impact oscillator near a degenerate graze D R J Chillingworth 2749 On the coupling of systems of hyperbolic conservation laws with ordinary differential equations Raul Borsche, Rinaldo M Colombo and Mauro Garavello 2771 Gibbs measure for the periodic derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation Laurent Thomann and Nikolay Tzvetkov 2793 Attracting and repelling in homogeneous signal processes T Downarowicz, P Grzegorek and Y Lacroix 2815 Intersections of homogeneous Cantor sets and beta-expansions Derong Kong, Wenxia Li and F Michel Dekking 2835 Singularity formations for a surface wave model Angel Castro, Diego C\'ordoba and Francisco Gancedo 2849 The quantization for self-conformal measures with respect to the geometric mean error Sanguo Zhu 2867 Ring-type singular solutions of the biharmonic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation G Baruch, G Fibich and E Mandelbaum 2889 Derivation and analysis of a new 2D Green--Naghdi system Samer Israwi 2905 Typical Borel measures on [0, 1]^d satisfy a multifractal formalism Zolt\'an Buczolich and St\'ephane Seuret 2919 Classifying Cantor sets by their multifractal spectrum Kathryn E Hare and Leandro Zuberman 2935 Chaos in differential equations driven by a nonautonomous force Kening Lu and Qiudong Wang ------ Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems 26:11 From: Emma Avery Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:52:41 +0100 INVERSE PROBLEMS Volume 26, Issue 11, November 2010 Article numbers: 115001--115021 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: http://iopscience.iop.org/0266-5611/26/11 PAPERS 115001 Regularization of ill-posed Mumford--Shah models with perimeter penalization Ronny Ramlau and Wolfgang Ring 115002 Global uniqueness in determining polygonal periodic structures with a minimal number of incident plane waves Johannes Elschner and Guanghui Hu 115003 Photoacoustic tomography in absorbing acoustic media using time reversal Bradley E Treeby, Edward Z Zhang and B T Cox 115004 Inverse spectral problem for a string equation with partial information Guangsheng Wei and Hong-Kun Xu 115005 Variational data assimilation to estimate the velocity in the wave equation J\'er\^ome Fehrenbach, Jennifer Oudry and Laurent Sandrin 115006 A stable recovering of dipole sources from partial boundary measurements A El-Badia and M Farah 115007 A posteriori error estimates in a globally convergent FEM for a hyperbolic coefficient inverse problem M Asadzadeh and L Beilina 115008 A boundary value transformation for an inverse source problem with point sources Dmitry Glotov 115009 Nuclear norm regularization with a low-rank constraint for matrix completion Hui Zhang, Lizhi Cheng and Wei Zhu 115010 Finite-element contrast source inversion method for microwave imaging Amer Zakaria, Colin Gilmore and Joe LoVetri 115011 ingular value decomposition for the truncated Hilbert transform A Katsevich 115012 An inverse scattering transform for the lattice potential KdV equation Samuel Butler and Nalini Joshi 115013 Illumination analysis of wave-equation imaging with curvelets Shen Wang, Maarten V de Hoop and Bj\orn Ursin 115014 Generalized Bregman distances and convergence rates for non-convex regularization methods Markus Grasmair 115015 Sparse channel separation using random probes Justin Romberg and Ramesh Neelamani 115016 Point source reconstruction principle of linear inverse problems Yasushi Terazono, Norio Fujimaki, Tsutomu Murata and Ayumu Matani 115017 Two regularization methods for solving a Riesz--Feller space-fractional backward diffusion problem G H Zheng and T Wei 115018 A three-dimensional muscle activity imaging technique for assessing pelvic muscle function Yingchun Zhang, Dan Wang and Gerald W Timm 115019 On the solvability and approximate solution of a two-dimensional coefficient inverse problem for a transport-like equation Zekeriya Ustaoglu, Bayram Heydarov and Serif Amirov 115020 Confidence bands for inverse regression models Melanie Birke, Nicolai Bissantz and Hajo Holzmann 115021 Joining RDC data from flexible protein domains Luca Sgheri ------ Subject: Contents, Communications in Mathematical Science 9:1 From: Communications in Math Sciences Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:24:07 -0500 Communications in Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Vol 9, No. 1, 2011 Table of Contents full articles are online at www.intlpress.com/CMS * Kerr-Debye relaxation shock profiles for Kerr equations Denise Aregba-Driollet and Bernard Hanouzet * Multi-scale methods for wave propagation in heterogeneous media Bjorn Engquist, Henrik Holst, and Olof Runborg * On the uniqueness for sub-critical quasi-geostrophic equations Lucas C. F. Ferreira * On the Cauchy problem for the nonlocal derivative nonlinear Schrodinger equation Roger Peres de Moura and Ademir Pastor * Wave propagation in shallow-water acoustic random waveguides Christophe Gomez * Relaxation to equilibrium in diffusive-thermal models with a strongly varying diffusion length-scale Paul Clavin, Laurent Masse, and Jean-Michel Roquejoffre * On the Ostwald ripening of thin liquid films Shibin Dai * On the uniqueness of entropy solutions to the Riemann problem for 2x2 hyperbolic systems of conservation laws Hiroki Ohwa * High-order entropy-based closures for linear transport in slab geometry Cory D. Hauck * Asymptotic stability of rarefaction waves in radiative hydrodynamics Chunjin Lin * A parametrix construction for the wave equation with low regularity coefficients using a frame of Gaussians Alden Waters * From Boltzmann equation to spherical harmonics expansion model: diffusion limit and Poisson coupling Mohamed Lazhar Tayeb * An improvement of the TYT algorithm for GF(2m) based on reusing intermediate computation results Yin Li, Gong-liang Chen, Yi-yang Chen, and Jian-hua Li * A singular 1-D Hamilton-Jacobi equation, with application to large deviation of diffusions Xiaoxue Deng, Jin Feng, and Yong Liu * A weak trapezoidal method for a class of stochastic differential equations David F. Anderson and Jonathan C. Mattingly * Crank-Nicolson finite element methods using symmetric stabilization with an application to optimal control problems subject to transient advection - diffusion equations Erik Burman