Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 12, Number 03 February 15, 2012 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: 107th Statistical Mechanics Conference Conference on Mathematical Methods and Models in Biosciences Workshop on Nonlinear Processes in Oceanic and Atmospheric Flows School on Nonsmooth Contact and Impact Mechanics Doctoral and postdoctoral positions at CRM Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 5:5 Contents, Mathematical Control and Related Fields 2:1 New journal in Nonlinear Analysis 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: 107th Statistical Mechanics Conference From: Hope DiCapua Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:57:58 -0500 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT 107th STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, BUSCH CAMPUS, HILL CENTER, ROOM 114 SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, MAY 6 - MAY 8, 2012 Dear Colleague: You are cordially invited to participate in the 107th Statistical Mechanics Conference at Rutgers University, May 6 - May 8, 2012. At this meeting, we will celebrate the accomplishments of our distinguished colleagues, Eddie Cohen, Elliott Lieb and Oliver Penrose. Here is a tentative list of invited speakers: Natan Andrei, Mark Bowick, Yana Bromberg, Eric Carlen, Premala Chandra, Michael Chertkov, Philippe Choquard, Sergio Ciliberto, James Crutchfield. Laszlo Erdos, , Santo Fortunato, Carl Franck, Peter Fratzl, Jochen Gemmer, John Hopfield, Bernardo Huberman, Vojkan Jaksic, Theodore Kirpatrick, Natalia Komarova, Stanislas Leibler, Roberto Livi, Marino Lopez, Juan Maldacena, Robert McCann, Clement Mouhot, Bruno Nachtergaele, Zohar Nussinov, Mathew Penrose, David Pine, Raul Rechtman-Schrenzel, Robert Seiringer, Jan Sengers, B. Sriram Shastry, Avy Soffer, Shivaji Sondhi, Eitan Tadmore, Giuseppe Toscsani, Jane Wang, Ned Wingreen, Horng-Tzer Yau, Robert Ziff, Alexander Zomolodchikov. A more complete conference program will be sent out to you later. You may access updated information concerning ALL DETAILS of the meeting (i.e. lodging, transportation, abstracts, etc.) on our website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/events/smm/ Please register at: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/events/smm/smm-regform.html. We would like to know of any colleagues or students who should be added to our mailing list, positions wanted or available, etc. Looking forward to seeing you here. With best wishes, Joel ------ Subject: Conference on Mathematical Methods and Models in Biosciences From: "Roumen Anguelov" Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:22:49 +0200 International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Models in Biosciences (BIOMATH 2012) Sofia, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 17-22 June 2012 http://www.biomath.bg/2012/ The conference is devoted to recent research in biosciences based on applications of mathematics as well as mathematics applied to or motivated by biological applications. It is a multidisciplinary meeting forum for researchers who develop and apply mathematical and computational tools to the study of phenomena in the broad fields of biology, ecology, medicine, biotechnology, bioengineering, environmental science, etc. Contributed talks in any of these fields are invited for presentation. Participants need to submit a one-page abstract 31 March 2012 indicating clearly the significance of the reported results for the advancement of knowledge in bioscience and/or biotechnology. Accepted presentations shall be published in special issues of science journals. ------ Subject: Workshop on Nonlinear Processes in Oceanic and Atmospheric Flows From: Ana M Mancho Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:06:30 +0100 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT 2nd Edition Workshop on Nonlinear Processes in Oceanic and Atmospheric Flows, ICMAT, Campus Cantoblanco UAM, Madrid, Spain, 3-6 July 2012 http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/nloa2012/ Dear colleagues, It is a pleasure for us to announce the Workshop on Nonlinear Processes in Oceanic and Atmospheric Flows, to be held at the Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas (ICMAT) from 3 to 6 July 2012. The Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas (ICMAT) (www.icmat.es) is placed at Campus Cantoblanco UAM, 15 km up to the North of downtown Madrid. This workshop will allow cross-disciplinary interaction among mathematicians, physicists, oceanographers and atmospheric scientists in a wide sense. We intend to build on the momentum and interest resulting from the first meeting on this topic held in 2008 at Castro Urdiales, Spain. Topics to be addressed are both theoretical and observational: Lagrangian transport in aperiodic flows, Lyapunov exponents, coherent mesoscale structures in the atmosphere and the ocean: jets and eddies, characterization and measurement of ocean mixing and their interaction with biological processes, advances in nonlinear techniques applied to ocean and atmospheric data, instabilities in geophysical flows, numerical modelling. Invited Speakers: + Guido Boffeta (Universita di Torino) + Francisco Doblas-Reyes (Instituto Catalan de Ciencias del Clima) + Francesco D'Ovidio (CNRS, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie) + Jinqiao Duan (IPAM, University of California at Los Angeles) + Klaus Fraedrich (University of Hamburg) + Kayo Ide (University of Maryland at College Park), + A.D. Kirwan, Jr (University of Delaware) + Guillaume Lapeyre (CNRS, Ecole Normale Superiore) + Marina Levy (CNRS, LOCEAN) + Reza Malek-Madani (Office of Naval Research), + Roberto Mechoso (University of California at los Angeles) + James Meiss (University of Colorado) + Tamay Ozkgomen (University of Miami) + Lawrence J. Pratt (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) + Irina Rypina (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) + Roger Samelson (Oregon State University) + Stephen Wiggins (University of Bristol), All the information about the workshop can be found from the web page http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/nloa2012/ Sincerely, The Organizing Committee: Ana M. Mancho (ICMAT, CSIC-UAM-UCM-UC3M) (Chair) Emilio Hernandez-Garcia (IFISC, CSIC-UIB), Cristobal Lopez (IFISC, CSIC-UIB), Antonio Turiel (ICM, CSIC) Stephen Wiggins (U. Bristol) ------ Subject: School on Nonsmooth Contact and Impact Mechanics From: Vincent Acary Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:12:20 -0500 A summer school on Nonsmooth Contact and Impact Mechanics is organized from September 10 to 14 at Aussois in the French Alpes. The main focus of the school will be on modeling and numerical/simulation aspects, and the following topics will be covered: Algorithms for contact detection in time-stepping numerical methods Convergence of time-stepping methods Multiple impacts in multibody systems Painleve paradoxes Waves in chains of balls Simulating large fiber assemblies such as hair For more details concerning the program, the speakers, and the registration, please visit the web site : http://www.inrialpes.fr/bipop/NonSmoothMechanicsSeminars/BipopSummerSchool2012/index.html The school is primarily intended to all researchers and engineers working in the field of Contact or Impact Mechanics, is also of interest to other scientific communities where such tools are used (robotics, computer graphics, haptic simulation, automatic control, applied mathematics). It's noteworthy that in order to encourage PhD and post-doc students to attend the school, the registration fees have been set at a very low level. ------ Subject: Doctoral and postdoctoral positions at CRM From: "Andrei.Korobeinikov" Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:25:39 -0000 2012 CRM doctoral and postdoctoral call The Centre de Recerca Matematica (CRM, http://www.crm.cat/) is recruiting Ph.D students and postdoctoral researchers in the following areas: Complex Systems, led by Alvaro Corral Computational and Mathematical Biology, led by Tomas Alarcon Industrial Mathematics, led by Tim Myers Harmonic Analysis and Approximation Theory, led by Sergey Tikhonov Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, led by Blanca Ayuso Computational Neuroscience, led by Alexander Roxin Mathematical Epidemiology, led by Andrei Korobeinikov Candidates with a strong interest in any of the above areas and an outstanding academic record are encouraged to submit an application by e-mail including their CV, academic record and an expression of interest to crmcalls@crm.cat, writing "CRM postdoc call" or "CRM PhD call" in the subject, not later than February 17, 2012. Candidates should arrange for two recommendation letters to be sent directly to the same address. http://www.crm.cat/CALLS/DoctoralandPostdoctoralCall_2012.pdf Tomas Alarcon, Andrei Korobeinikov Centre de Recerca Matematica ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 5:5 From: Liwei Ning Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 22:31:10 -0600 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S (DCDS-S) Volume: 5, Number: 5 October 2012 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=493 1. Preface; Pages : i - iii Dmitry Pelinovsky, Milena Stanislavova and Atanas Stefanov 2. Rigorous description of macroscopic wave packets in infinite periodic chains of coupled oscillators by modulation equations; Pages : 879 - 901 Martina Chirilus-Bruckner, Christopher Chong, Oskar Prill and Guido Schneider 3. Soliton and blow-up solutions to the time-dependent Schrodinger-Hartree equation; Pages : 903 - 923 Hristo Genev and George Venkov 4. The spectrum of travelling wave solutions to the Sine-Gordon equation; Pages : 925 - 937 Christopher K. R. T Jones and Robert Marangell 5. The Evans function and the Weyl-Titchmarsh function; Pages : 939 - 970 Yuri Latushkin and Alim Sukhtayev 6. On the asymptotic stability of localized modes in the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation; Pages : 971 - 987 Tetsu Mizumachi and Dmitry Pelinovsky 7. A lattice model for resonance in open periodic waveguides; Pages : 989 - 1020 Natalia Ptitsyna and Stephen P. Shipman ------ Subject: Contents, Mathematical Control and Related Fields 2:1 From: Liwei Ning Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 22:27:03 -0600 Mathematical Control and Related Fields (MCRF) Volume: 2, Number: 1 March 2012 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=495 1. Exponential stability of a general network of 1-d thermoelastic rods; Pages : 1 - 16 Abdallah Ben Abdallah and Farhat Shel 2. Eventual regularity of a wave equation with boundary dissipation; Pages : 17 - 28 Kangsheng Liu, Xu Liu and Bopeng Rao 3. Extension of the v-metric for stabilizable plants over $H^\infty$; Pages : 29 - 44 Amol Sasane 4. Energy decay estimates for some weakly coupled Euler-Bernoulli and wave equations with indirect damping mechanisms; Pages : 45 - 60 Louis Tebou 5. Pontryagin's principle for local solutions of optimal control governed by the 2D Navier-Stokes equations with mixed control-state constraints; Pages : 61 - 80 Huaiqiang Yu and Bin Liu 6. Optimal trend-following trading rules under a three-state regime switching model; Pages : 81 - 100 Jie Yu and Qing Zhang ------ Subject: New journal in Nonlinear Analysis From: Vicentiu Radulescu Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 18:11:20 +0200 I would be grateful if you advertise the following new journal in Nonlinear Analysis: Advances in Nonlinear Analysis (Walter de Gruyter) http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/anona?rskey=iQxzuN&result=7&q= Thank you very much. Sincerely, Vicentiu D. Radulescu Editor in Chief