Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 12, Number 14 August 1, 2012 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Conference, New Trends in Dynamical Systems 2012 IMA Conference on Dense Granular Flows SICC International School, Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics Professor in Applied Systems Science, University of Osnabrueck Contents, Networks and Heterogeneous Media 7:2 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 17:6 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 17:7 Contents, Nonlinearity 25:8 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 241:18 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, New Trends in Dynamical Systems 2012 From: New Trends in Dynamical Systems 2012 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:26:27 +0200 Dear Colleague, The conference "New Trend in Dynamical Systems" will be held in Salou from October 1 to 5, 2012. All the information is available in http://www.gsd.uab.cat/ntds2012/ The deadline for registration is September 15, 2012. The organizing committee. Lluis Alseda, Josep M. Cors, Armengol Gasull, Xavier Jarque, Regina Martinez and Joan Torregrosa. ------ Subject: IMA Conference on Dense Granular Flows From: Pamela Bye Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:50:04 -0400 2ND IMA CONFERENCE ON DENSE GRANULAR FLOWS Monday 1 - Thursday 4 July 2013 Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK http://www.ima.org.uk/conferences/conferences_calendar/dense_granular_flows.cfm Flows involving solid particulates are ubiquitous in nature and industry alike. The objective of this meeting will be to interface the two ends of the particulate flow spectrum - those working to understand the fundamentals of granular flows and those attempting to control particulate flows in an industrial setting - to develop solutions to the complex problems presented by dense granular flows. Themes will include dense granular flow, biological systems, self-propelled particles and geological flows, exploring new developments in theoretical analysis and experimental techniques. All attendees will be provided with an opportunity to present recent work and there will be substantial time for discussion, both during the workshop and during the evening! Postgraduate and PhD students are particularly welcomed. Papers will be accepted for the conference based on a 500 word abstract for oral or poster presentation. Abstracts should be submitted by 1st October 2012 either online at http://online.ima.org.uk or by e-mail to conferences@ima.org.uk. ------ Subject: SICC International School, Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics From: sicc Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:02:00 -0600 7th SICC International School "Topics in nonlinear dynamics" COMPLEX NETWORKS IN ACTION University of Catania, Italy, 26-28 September, 2012 AIM OF THE COURSE Complex networks constitute a paradigm pervading many natural or man-made complex systems. Complex networks attract a wide and interdisciplinary audience coming from various fields: from theoretical scientists, to physicists, to engineers, to biologists. Recently, the topic paved the way to new perspectives in different advanced research fields such as brain dynamics (where complex networks have been demonstrated to provide new tools for functional activity characterization), climatology (where they provide a powerful framework to statistically investigate the topology of local and non-local statistical interrelationships), synchronization (where synchronization emerges as a complex interplay between network structure and properties and node dynamics), electronics (where the recent efforts directed towards large-area applications require to deal with complex patterns of interconnectivity), sensor networks (where the structural and evolutionary properties of models of complex networks are explored to design alternative network control methods and effective and robust techniques) and other examples. The idea underlying the School is to focus on such fields where the application of paradigms, concepts and methods from complex network theory revealed to be of great interest both from a theoretical point of view and from an application point of view. The School will thus focus on fields in which complex networks can be seen "in action". LOCATION University of Catania, Italy DATES 26-28 September, 2012 ORGANIZERS University of Catania and SICC (Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity, http://www.sicc-it.org) TOPICS This Ph.D. School is intended for postgraduate/PhD students from all over Europe and will deal with complex networks and their applications to the following areas: brain dynamics; climatology; epidemics; game theory; synchronization; sensor networks; control; slime mould computers. SPEAKERS - Juergen Kurths (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany) - Mario Chavez (Cognitive Neuroscience and Functional Brain Mapping, UPR 640-LENA, France) - Andrew Adamatzky (Dept of Computer Science UWE, Bristol, United Kingdom) - Yamir Moreno (Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems BIFI, Spain) - Jesus Gomez-Gardenes (University of Zaragoza, Spain) - Stefano Boccaletti (Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) - Mario Di Bernardo (Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy) - Carlo Piccardi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) - Alessandro Rizzo (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) - Luigi Fortuna (Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italy) - Andrea Rapisarda (Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italy) HOW TO APPLY For information and applications, visit the school's website: http://www.dees.unict.it/mfrasca/PhDSchool2012.html ------ Subject: Professor in Applied Systems Science, University of Osnabrueck From: Horst Malchow Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:45:50 +0200 The Institute of Environmental Systems Research (IUSF) at the University of Osnabrueck has a vacancy for a Professor (W3) in Applied Systems Science to be filled by April 1, 2013. The Institute is an interdisciplinary, inter-departmental research institution. The research advances the conceptual and methodological foundations of systems science and applies innovative interdisciplinary approaches to ecological and socio-economic systems and their interactions. IUSF runs teaching programs at bachelor and master level in Applied Systems Science, Environmental Systems Science as well as Environmental Systems and Resources Management. The successful candidate is expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the system science programs and to lead an own research group at IUSF. The research focus should be in the analysis, mathematical modeling and simulation of environmental systems. According to P. 25 NHG, necessary qualifications include an appropriate university degree, an outstanding doctoral degree, and further scientific achievements such as or equivalent to Habilitation or assistant professorship. A proven track record in internationally recognized, interdisciplinary, system oriented environmental research and experience in leading a scientific research team as well as in interdisciplinary cooperation and in the acquisition of third party funds are required. Proven teaching skills and practice are expected as well. As a certificated family-friendly employer the University of Osnabrueck is committed to the reconciliation of work and family. The university is an equal opportunity employer. Women are especially encouraged to apply. Disabled applicants with equivalent qualification will be treated preferentially. Please send your application (including curriculum vitae, scientific profile, list of publications) preferably in electronic format to the Dean of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Prof. Dr. Norbert de Lange, 49069 Osnabrueck; e-mail: dekan-fb6@uos.de. The closing date for applications is 31 August 2012. For further information you can contact Prof. Dr. Claudia Pahl-Wostl (pahl@uos.de) or Prof. Dr. Horst Malchow (malchow@uos.de). Further information on IUSF and the study programs is available online at http://www.usf.uos.de ------ Subject: Contents, Networks and Heterogeneous Media 7:2 From: Liwei Ning Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:08:17 -0500 Networks and Heterogeneous Media (NHM) Volume: 7, Number: 2 June 2012 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=522 Special Issue on Mean Field Games 1. Preface Pages : i - ii Fabio Camilli, Italo Capuzzo Dolcetta and Maurizio Falcone 2. Iterative strategies for solving linearized discrete mean field games systems Pages : 197 - 217 Yves Achdou and Victor Perez 3. From discrete to continuous Wardrop equilibria Pages : 219 - 241 Jean-Bernard Baillon and Guillaume Carlier 4. Explicit solutions of some linear-quadratic mean field games Pages : 243 - 261 Martino Bardi 5. A semi-discrete approximation for a first order mean field game problem Pages : 263 - 277 Fabio Camilli and Francisco Silva 6. Long time average of mean field games Pages : 279 - 301 Pierre Cardaliaguet, Jean-Michel Lasry, Pierre-Louis Lions and Alessio Porretta 7. A-priori estimates for stationary mean-field games Pages : 303 - 314 Diogo A. Gomes, Gabriel E. Pires and Hector Sanchez-Morgado 8. New numerical methods for mean field games with quadratic costs Pages : 315 - 336 Olivier Gueant 9. A modest proposal for MFG with density constraints Pages : 337 - 347 Filippo Santambrogio 10. Liquidity generated by heterogeneous beliefs and costly estimations Pages : 349 - 361 Min Shen and Gabriel Turinici ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 17:6 From: Liwei Ning Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 14:54:57 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B (DCDS-B) Volume: 17, Number: 6 September 2012 Special issue, dedicated to professor Avner Friedman on his 80th birthday http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=517 1. Preface Pages : i - iii Bo Guan, Jong-Shenq Guo, Bei Hu, Urszula Ledzewicz, Yuan Lou and Fernando Reitich 2. The structure of the quiescent core in rigidly rotating spirals in a class of excitable systems Pages : 1605 - 1638 Maria Aguareles, Marco A. Fontelos and Juan J. Velazquez 3. On the validity of formal asymptotic expansions in Allen-Cahn equation and FitzHugh-Nagumo system with generic initial data Pages : 1639 - 1649 Matthieu Alfaro and Hiroshi Matano 4. A class of optimization problems in radiotherapy dosimetry planning Pages : 1651 - 1672 Juan Carlos Lopez Alfonso, Giuseppe Buttazzo, Bosco Garcia-Archilla, Miguel A. Herrero and Luis Nunez 5. Stabilization of a reaction-diffusion system modelling malaria transmission Pages : 1673 - 1684 Sebastian Anita and Vincenzo Capasso 6. Self-similar focusing in porous media: An explicit calculation Pages : 1685 - 1691 D. G. Aronson 7. The quasiconvex envelope through first-order partial differential equations which characterize quasiconvexity of nonsmooth functions Pages : 1693 - 1706 Emmanuel N. Barron, Rafal Goebel and Robert R. Jensen 8. Analysis and stability of bent-core liquid crystal fibers Pages : 1707 - 1728 Patricia Bauman and Daniel Phillips 9. Existence and compactness for weak solutions to Bellman systems with critical growth Pages : 1729 - 1750 Alain Bensoussan, Miroslav Bulicek and Jens Frehse 10. Regularity of the free boundary for the American put option Pages : 1751 - 1759 Xinfu Chen and Huibin Cheng 11. Dead-core rates for the porous medium equation with a strong absorption Pages : 1761 - 1774 Xinfu Chen, Jong-Shenq Guo and Bei Hu 12. Slow manifold reduction of a stochastic chemical reaction: Exploring Keizer's paradox Pages : 1775 - 1794 Parker Childs and James P. Keener 13. Interactions of point vortices in the Zabusky-McWilliams model with a background flow Pages : 1795 - 1807 Colm Connaughton and John R. Ockendon 14. Equity valuation under stock dilution and buy-back Pages : 1809 - 1829 Yaling Cui and Srdjan D. Stojanovic 15. Optimal treated mosquito bed nets and insecticides for eradication of malaria in Missira Pages : 1831 - 1840 Bassidy Dembele and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu 16. On the local behavior of non-negative solutions to a logarithmically singular equation Pages : 1841 - 1858 Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Ugo Gianazza and Naian Liao 17. Infinite dimensional relaxation oscillation in aggregation-growth systems Pages : 1859 - 1887 Shin-Ichiro Ei, Hirofumi Izuhara and Masayasu Mimura 18. Error estimates for a bar code reconstruction method Pages : 1889 - 1902 Selim Esedoglu and Fadil Santosa 19. Modeling high flux hollow fibers dialyzers Pages : 1903 - 1937 Antonio Fasano and Angiolo Farina 20. On the structure of double layers in Poisson-Boltzmann equation Pages : 1939 - 1967 Marco A. Fontelos and Lucia B. Gamboa 21. Gap junctions and excitation patterns in continuum models of islets Pages : 1969 - 1990 Pranay Goel and James Sneyd 22. A Monge-Ampere type fully nonlinear equation on Hermitian manifolds Pages : 1991 - 1999 Bo Guan and Qun Li 23. A fully non-linear PDE problem from pricing CDS with counterparty risk Pages : 2001 - 2016 Bei Hu, Lishang Jiang, Jin Liang and Wei Wei 24. The regularized implied local volatility equations -A new model to recover the volatility of underlying asset from observed market option price Pages : 2017 - 2046 Lishang Jiang and Baojun Bian 25. Evolution of mixed dispersal in periodic environments Pages : 2047 - 2072 Chiu-Yen Kao, Yuan Lou and Wenxian Shen 26. Some L_p-estimates for elliptic and parabolic operators with measurable coefficients Pages : 2073 - 2090 N. V. Krylov 27. A discrete dynamical system arising in molecular biology Pages : 2091 - 2151 Howard A. Levine, Yeon-Jung Seo and Marit Nilsen-Hamilton 28. Global injectivity and multiple equilibria in uni- and bi-molecular reaction networks Pages : 2153 - 2170 Casian Pantea, Heinz Koeppl and Gheorghe Craciun 29. Dynamics of a two-receptor binding model: How affinities and capacities translate into long and short time behaviour and physiological corollaries Pages : 2171 - 2184 Lambertus A. Peletier, Willem de Winter and An Vermeulen 30. Dynamics of bone cell signaling and PTH treatments of osteoporosis Pages : 2185 - 2200 David S. Ross, Christina Battista, Antonio Cabal and Khamir Mehta 31. Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction for optimal control problems Pages : 2201 - 2223 Heinz Schattler and Urszula Ledzewicz 32. Convex spacelike hypersurfaces of constant curvature in de Sitter space Pages : 2225 - 2242 Joel Spruck and Ling Xiao 33. Spreading speeds and traveling waves for non-cooperative integro-difference systems Pages : 2243 - 2266 Haiyan Wang and Carlos Castillo-Chavez 34. On sufficient conditions for a linearly determinate spreading speed Pages : 2267 - 2280 Hans Weinberger 35. Optimal control of integrodifference equations with growth-harvesting-dispersal order Pages : 2281 - 2298 Peng Zhong and Suzanne Lenhart ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 17:7 From: Liwei Ning Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 14:58:49 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B (DCDS-B) Volume: 17, Number: 7 October 2012 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=525 1. A Neumann Boundary Value Problem in Two-Ion Electro-Diffusion with Unequal Valencies Pages : 2299 - 2311 Pablo Amster, Man Kam Kwong and Colin Rogers 2. From a PDE model to an ODE model of dynamics of synaptic depression Pages : 2313 - 2327 Adam Bobrowski and Katarzyna Morawska 3. Stability of oscillatory gravity wave trains with energy dissipation and Benjamin-Feir instability Pages : 2329 - 2341 Zhi-Min Chen and Philip A. Wilson 4. An immersed linear finite element method with interface flux capturing recovery Pages : 2343 - 2357 So-Hsiang Chou 5. Mathematical analysis of a HIV model with quadratic logistic growth term Pages : 2359 - 2385 Xinyue Fan, Claude-Michel Brauner and Linda Wittkop 6. Construction of a finite-time Lyapunov function by meshless collocation Pages : 2387 - 2412 Peter Giesl 7. Impacts of migration and immigration on disease transmission dynamics in heterogeneous populations Pages : 2413 - 2430 Hongbin Guo and Michael Yi Li 8. Dynamical bifurcation of the two dimensional Swift-Hohenberg equation with odd periodic condition Pages : 2431 - 2449 Jongmin Han and Chun-Hsiung Hsia 9. Stability conditions for a class of delay differential equations in single species population dynamics Pages : 2451 - 2464 Gang Huang, Yasuhiro Takeuchi and Rinko Miyazaki 10. Nonlinear conformation response in the finite channel: Existence of a unique solution for the dynamic PNP model Pages : 2465 - 2482 Joseph W. Jerome 11. Dynamics of a 2D Stochastic non-Newtonian fluid driven by fractional Brownian motion Pages : 2483 - 2508 Jin Li and Jianhua Huang 12. On a reaction-diffusion model for sterile insect release method with release on the boundary Pages : 2509 - 2522 Xin Li and Xingfu Zou 13. Interface oscillations in reaction-diffusion systems above the Hopf bifurcation Pages : 2523 - 2543 Rebecca McKay, Theodore Kolokolnikov and Paul Muir 14. Optimal harvesting and planting control in stochastic logistic population models Pages : 2545 - 2559 Hiroaki Morimoto 15. Kolmogorov's normal form for equations of motion with dissipative effects Pages : 2561 - 2593 Letizia Stefanelli and Ugo Locatelli 16. Stability of boundary layers for the inflow compressible Navier-Stokes equations Pages : 2595 - 2613 Jing Wang and Lining Tong 17. A vector-bias malaria model with incubation period and diffusion Pages : 2615 - 2634 Zhiting Xu and Xiao-Qiang Zhao 18. Pullback attractors for non-autonomous quasi-linear parabolic equations with dynamical boundary conditions Pages : 2635 - 2651 Lu Yang, Meihua Yang and Peter E. Kloeden ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 25:8 From: Anna-Ulla Gardiner Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:23:04 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 25, Issue 8, August 2012 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0951-7715/25/8 Pages:2207--2400 PAPERS 2207 Natural extensions and entropy of ${\alpha}$-continued fractions Cor Kraaikamp, Thomas A Schmidt and Wolfgang Steiner 2245 Banding, excitability and chaos in active nematic suspensions L Giomi, L Mahadevan, B Chakraborty and M F Hagan 2271 Stationary problem related to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the unit ball Reika Fukuizumi, Fouad Hadj Selem and Hiroaki Kikuchi 2303 Mixed-mode oscillations and interspike interval statistics in the stochastic FitzHugh--Nagumo model Nils Berglund and Damien Landon 2337 Dynamical rigidity of transcendental meromorphic functions Bart{\l}omiej Skorulski and Mariusz Urba\'nski 2349 Mixing rates of particle systems with energy exchange A Grigo, K Khanin and D Sz\'asz 2377 H\"older properties of perturbed skew products and Fubini regained Yu Ilyashenko and A Negut ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 241:18 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:36:55 -0400 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 241, Issue 18, Pages 1475-1588, 15 September 2012 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/271587-1-s2.0-S0167278912X00150 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Second derivative ridges are straight lines and the implications for computing Lagrangian Coherent Structures Original Research Article, Pages 1475-1476 Greg Norgard, Peer-Timo Bremer 2) On the relation of KS entropy and permutation entropy Original Research Article, Pages 1477-1481 Karsten Keller, Anton M. Unakafov, Valentina A. Unakafova 3) Hidden attractor in smooth Chua systems Original Research Article, Pages 1482-1486 G.A. Leonov, N.V. Kuznetsov, V.I. Vagaitsev 4) Kinetic wave turbulence Original Research Article, Pages 1487-1511 Gregory L. Eyink, Yi-Kang Shi 5) Modeling the influence of information on the coevolution of contact networks and the dynamics of infectious diseases Original Research Article, Pages 1512-1517 Haifeng Zhang, Michael Small, Xinchu Fu, Guiquan Sun, Binghong Wang 6) Complex mixed-mode oscillations in a Bonhoeffer-van der Pol oscillator under weak periodic perturbation Original Research Article, Pages 1518-1526 Kuniyasu Shimizu, Yuto Saito, Munehisa Sekikawa, Naohiko Inaba 7) Delay-periodic solutions and their stability using averaging in delay-differential equations, with applications Original Research Article, Pages 1527-1531 T.W. Carr, R. Haberman, T. Erneux 8) Finding the quasipotential for nongradient SDEs Original Research Article, Pages 1532-1550 M.K. Cameron 9) Applications of the exponential ordering in the study of almost-periodic delayed Hopfield neural networks Original Research Article, Pages 1551-1566 Oscar Arratia, Rafael Obaya, M. Eugenia Sansaturio 10) Refraction of dispersive shock waves Original Research Article, Pages 1567-1587 G.A. El, V.V. Khodorovskii, A.M. Leszczyszyn